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Here you will find stories about the North Country. Just writing those words, though, I sense a fight coming. When I lived in Bethlehem, I could unequivocally state that I lived in the North Country, but things got muddy when I moved to North Conway. You see some folks believe the North Country includes only communities north of the state’s four notches: Franconia Notch, Crawford Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Dixville Notch.
For InDepthNH.org’s purposes, we’ll use a little common sense and maybe stretch that a little farther south. And get ready for a call from our columnist John Harrigan, who has been called the King of The North Country, when we get it wrong.
-Nancy West
Nancy West | Consumer Advocate D. Maurice Kreis: “The purpose of Northern Pass is to help Hydro-Quebec sell non-fossil electricity in southern New England. Any benefits to New Hampshire customers are indirect and very limited at best, absent some kind of agreement like the one Eversource has now abandoned.”
New hydroponic greenhouse project in Berlin is expected to create nearly 80 jobs.
Nancy West | Concord and Bridgewater property owners would see the least relief from Northern Pass tax payments to the 31 host communities if the proposed 192-mile transmission line is built from Pittsburg to Deerfield, according to testimony at Friday’s adjudicative hearing.
Lawmakers also turned out to protest Northern Pass and presented a petition signed by 100 House and Senate members.
CONCORD — State regulators were critical of work done by a tourism expert hired by Northern Pass Transmission project developer Eversource who concluded the proposal would have no measurable impact on the state’s tourism industry.
The bill would also allow the NBRC to include promoting the development of renewable energy resources to meet their 40% minimum of projects, and it would permit NBRC to attract businesses from outside the United States.
CONCORD — A tourism expert hired by the developers of the Northern Pass Transmission project says the project will have no measurable effect on the state’s tourism industry.
Nancy West | The Pessamit Innu First Nation of Quebec will speak out against the controversial Northern Pass project and National Grid’s recently announced transmission project is holding “community meetings” hoping to also import electricity from Canada to the New England power grid.
Coos County’s Planning Board wants to make it clear its position that it has authority over private projects on state and federal land, including the White Mountain National Forest.
Growing up, I had three heroes: Hank Aaron, Arnold Palmer, and my big brother, Bruce.