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CONCORD — Site Evaluation Committee members challenged the credibility of a number of Northern Pass experts on Wednesday during the second day of deliberations on the proposed $1.6 billion transmission project.
January 31, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/31/regulators-criticize-credibility-of-northern-pass-experts-in-day-2-of-deliberations/While Site Evaluation Committee members are in general agreement that Eversource has the financial, technical and managerial capability to construct and operate the 192-mile Northern Pass transmission project, they believe loose ends and gaps need to addressed.
January 30, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/30/regulators-discuss-northern-pass-projects-loose-ends-on-day-1-of-deliberations/CONCORD – On the eve of deliberations on the Northern Pass Transmission project, intervenors asked the Site Evaluation Committee to reject a new motion from the project’s developers.
January 29, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/29/northern-pass-intervenors-at-odds-over-control-of-local-roads-again/Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey announced a review of the decision because project developer Eversource — the largest electric utility in the Commonwealth — helped write the request for proposal and sat on the selection committee, as did the second largest utility National Grid. The 12 deliberative sessions in New Hampshire begin Tuesday at 9 a.m. at 49 Donovan St., Concord.
January 28, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/28/mass-ag-to-review-northern-pass-selection-as-nh-regulators-begin-deliberations/While the Northern Pass transmission project awaits regulators’ decision in New Hampshire, Massachusetts energy officials announced it is the only one of 46 proposals selected to move forward in its Clean Energy project.
January 25, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/25/northern-pass-2/IBEW Local 4 business manager Brian Murphy accused the Conservation Law Foundation of blasting Northern Pass in a full-page ad in Sunday’s Boston Globe because it has a “financial partnership” with TDI, a competing project bidding for the Mass. Clean Energy contract. CLF denied the allegation.
January 22, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/22/accusations-fly-after-conservation-law-foundation-blasts-northern-pass-in-boston-globe-ad/In a full-page ad in the Boston Globe on Sunday, the Conservation Law Foundation told Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the proposed Northern Pass project should be disqualified from the Mass. Clean Energy RFP aimed at reducing carbon emissions because it lied in its bid.
January 21, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/21/conservation-law-foundation-to-mass-gov-baker-disqualify-northern-pass-mass-rfp-bid/CONCORD — Next week Massachusetts’ three major electric distributors and the Department of Environmental Resources will announce which proposals to produce 10 terawatt hours of clean renewable energy over the next 20 years will be selected to negotiate long-term contracts.
January 15, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/15/d-day-approaches-for-northern-pass/The vast majority of intervenors asked the Site Evaluation Committee to reject the project for several reasons all related to Northern Pass failing to meet statutory requirements for approval.
January 14, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/14/most-intervenors-file-legal-briefs-arguing-state-regulators-should-reject-northern-pass/