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The chair of the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee, Rep. Michael Vose, R-Epping, will introduce a bill in the 2024 session to establish a clean energy portfolio standard that would include nuclear power from Seabrook Station which provides 56 percent of all the electric generation in New Hampshire.
A proposed 1,200-megawatt transmission line through Vermont and New Hampshire has been included in a federal program to improve the nation’s electric grid.
The legislature made quick work of Gov. Chris Sununu’s nine vetoes Thursday, sustaining all nine, although the House overrode one of the governor’s vetoes, but not the one for the Burgess BioPower plant in Berlin.
The North Country’s rugged beauty along Route 2 from the shores of the Androscoggin River up to the ridges of the Mohoosucs will be forever preserved.
About 240 members of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests gathered at The Rocks for the unveiling of its new North Country headquarters during its 122nd Annual Meeting at The Rocks here Saturday.
Executive Councilor Joe Kenney said he met recently with the new owners of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters tract to convey his concern about their ownership objectives and impacts to logging in the Great North Woods.
Fisherman David Goethel is looking at the prospect of large scale wind production in the Gulf of Maine and what changes that may mean to fish behavior, marine environment and life as it has been known on the ocean for centuries.
On a quiet overlook of the magnificent Cherry Pond, framed by the rocky Northern Presidential Range, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, met Friday afternoon with local conservation leaders to discuss legislation she hopes will bind and strengthen their collective efforts within the 7.2 million acre Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, of which the meeting location is a part.
The new owners of the 146,500-acre Connecticut Headwaters Conservation tract in northern New Hampshire said they plan to continue to manage the forest in accordance with the long-term management plan developed by the state and abide by the conservation easement.