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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.
You can view the oral arguments here, all the court filings and the more than 400 news stories InDepthNH.org has reported on the controversial Northern Pass project.
The CLF’s appeal centers on concrete mattresses that will be placed over the three cables to be buried under Little Bay near the shores of Newington and Durham.
We urge Yale and Wagner to terminate the lease that facilitates this project.
Northern Pass filed a reply brief with the state Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing various points that opponents have made in their objections to the project’s original appeal that was filed in February.
State regulators denied motions to rehear and reconsider their approval of the Seacoast Reliability Project that the town of Durham, the Durham residents group and the Conservation Law Foundation filed in March.