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People tend to assume that I was an opponent of Northern Pass, Eversource’s ill-fated transmission project that died an ignominious death nearly four years ago. But it ain’t necessarily so.
June 12, 2023 | https://indepthnh.org/2023/06/12/new-transmission-line-to-quebec-i-vote-yes/Not that many years ago, a similar fight consumed New Hampshire as Eversource and Hydro-Quebec teamed up to propose Northern Pass, which like New England Clean Energy Connect, would have conveyed about 1,200 megawatts of large hydro-power to Massachusetts.
November 6, 2021 | https://indepthnh.org/2021/11/06/maine-referendum-seeks-end-to-transmission-line/Approving Northern Pass would have done little directly for the people of New Hampshire.
July 21, 2019 | https://indepthnh.org/2019/07/21/time-for-true-regional-approach-in-writing-our-electricity-future/The contract to provide renewable energy to the Bay State was originally awarded to Northern Pass but was withdrawn after New Hampshire regulators denied Eversource’s application to build a $1.6 billion powerline on Feb. 1, 2018.
March 30, 2019 | https://indepthnh.org/2019/03/30/maines-puc-staff-recommends-cmps-1b-powerline-project/CONCORD — Eversource informed the Public Utilities Commission Monday that it will file a revised proposal to purchase natural gas capacity from the Access Northeast proposed pipeline. Eversource also asked regulators to vacate their order denying a Power Purchase Agreement with Hydro-Quebec included in the Northern Pass Transmission proposal.
June 11, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/06/11/hydro-quebec-and-natural-gas-back-on-eversource-table/Martin Murray, spokesman for Northern Pass, said, “We are shocked and outraged by today’s SEC outcome.” He continued, “Clearly, the SEC process is broken.” In other words: How dare the members of the SEC (site evaluation committee) not do as we command! And all seven of them!
February 4, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/02/04/opinion-eversource-arrogance-continues-by-burt-cohen/“We are in the wait and see position right now,” said Hydro-Quebec spokesman Lynn St-Laurent. She said the Northern Pass project was further along with an in-service date of 2020. “We need to see what is going to happen,” St-Laurent said, “to see if the in-service date 2020 still holds.”
February 2, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/02/02/hydro-quebec-says-two-other-mass-clean-energy-bidders-still-want-to-move-forward/If the cover of “Sacred Trust,” created by editorial cartoonist Mike Marland, doesn’t clue you in, it won’t take long to realize that this novel is written as a vicarious
homage to New Hampshire’s own ongoing battle over the controversial
“Northern Pass” project and other similar projects.
“Today marks a major milestone, adding one more key authorization to those that have already been granted on both sides of the border, and moving us closer to proceed with the Québec–New Hampshire and Northern Pass Transmission projects,” said Éric Martel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro-Québec.
December 21, 2017 | https://indepthnh.org/2017/12/21/quebec-new-hampshire-interconnection-project-gets-quebec-government-green-light/