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Jamie Sayen: Wild New England’s History from Glaciers to Global Warming
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Author and environmental activist, Jamie Sayen’s latest book speaks about “the failure of conservation in northern New England’s forests.”
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Author and environmental activist, Jamie Sayen’s latest book speaks about “the failure of conservation in northern New England’s forests.”
Sharon Solomon talks to Roger Wood about policies needed to keep moving in the direction of renewable energy resources such as wind power to battle global warming.
Roger Wood interviews Martin Murray, communications manager for Eversource, Catherine Corkery, director of the New Hampshire chapter of Sierra Club and Dan Dolan, president of Northeast Power Generators Association.
The ambitious project may be years away, but the battle is already underway over the massive Northern Pass electricity project in New Hampshire.
If ultimately built, a 192-mile transmission line will be constructed — underground and on towers — from Quebec province through New Hampshire. It would provide some 1,000 megawatts of power to the state and New England from Hydro-Quebec’s water driven hydro-electric plants in Canada.
CONWAY — The chemical treatment of the remaining pollution at the former Kearsarge Metallurgical Corp. Superfund site began Monday. The effort is expected to continue for the next few weeks. The site, next to Pequawket Pond, is where KMC made stainless-steel valves from 1964 to 1982. The KMC made stainless-steel castings for the nuclear power industry.