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CONCORD – With 42 hearing days already scheduled for Northern Pass Transmission to make its case before the Site Evaluation Committee, the project asked Friday for 15 more days to be sandwiched in during July, August and early September – and for evening sessions.
Opponents outnumbered supporters among the 30 or so speakers, but not by the 10-to-one ratio in 1,300 plus written comments submitted to the committee.
CONCORD – Northern Pass Transmission wants to keep confidential a controversial lease with Bayroot LLC for land owned mostly by Yale University for a project right of way in Northern Coös County.
On Tuesday, Yale University broke its silence on the controversial Bayroot LLC land lease deal to Northern Pass in its newsletter YaleNews.
Attorneys claimed the scientists failed to identify all the wetlands impacted by the project and questioned if restoration efforts would allow the areas to function as they did before construction …
Amy Manzelli, representing the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, insisted the negative impacts on wetlands would be ten times worse with the plan as proposed than if the transmission line were to be completely buried.
CONCORD — One person described Northern Pass Transmission as a several-hundred-mile long extension cord from Canada to feed the electric appetite of southern New England without any sweetener for New Hampshire at a public hearing Thursday before the Site Evaluation Committee.
CONCORD — State regulators may be considering an economic trigger for the Northern Pass Transmission project that could ultimately determine whether the project goes forward.
CONCORD — Despite challenges to her economic projections about the benefits of Northern Pass Transmission, an economist hired by developer Eversource stood by her report on the project.
CONCORD — The state Site Evaluation Committee has scheduled three public statement hearings on the Northern Pass Transmission project for people who are not intervenors, but have an interest in the matter.