Energy
Power Line Requiem or the Northern Pass Megawatt Blues
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Pounding nails to permanently close Northern Pass’ coffin began long before the state Supreme Court heard the case.
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Pounding nails to permanently close Northern Pass’ coffin began long before the state Supreme Court heard the case.
Eversource has decided Northern Pass “has no path forward” after the New Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously decided to uphold the Site Evaluation Committee’s decision denying the $1.6 billion project.
Approving Northern Pass would have done little directly for the people of New Hampshire.
“We have reviewed the record and conclude that the Subcommittee’s findings are supported by competent evidence and are not erroneous as a matter of law” Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi wrote for the court.
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While the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (NH SEC) had an obligation to weigh four clearly stated statutory factors during its hearings and its deliberations on the Northern Pass, it only had to find the applicant lacking in one of those four factors in order to deny the application.
The application failed because Eversource and its experts were not credible when they asserted that the project would have no adverse effect on virtually anything.
Developer Eversource claimed state regulators made legal errors requiring the court to overturn the $1.6 billion project’s denial.