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Attorney Thomas Pappas representing the Counsel for the Public, grilled James Chalmers of Chalmers & Associates of Billings, Montana, about his report concluding there “is no evidence that high-voltage transmission lines result in consistent measurable effects on property values.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
OP-ED: The selection of smaller state roads has been fraught with challenges that would be absent in the Route 93 corridor. Smaller roads such as Route 116 in Franconia and Easton are simply too narrow to accommodate burial of HVDC lines without encroachment upon private property.
CONCORD — Several members of the Site Evaluation Committee questioned whether more could be done to minimize harm to wetlands by the Northern Pass Transmission project.
CONCORD – The state Public Utilities Commission issued a major ruling Friday on the future of net metering and the development of clean energy in New Hampshire.