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CONCORD – Attorney Arthur Cunningham left Thursday’s Northern Pass hearing angry after people were told to leave if they hadn’t signed a confidentiality agreement regarding sealed portions of the testimony of Julia Frayer, the project’s economics and project benefits expert.
CONCORD — Developers of the Northern Pass Transmission project were told that now is the time to reach out to Plymouth and Franconia businesses that will be impacted by construction to bury portions of the high-voltage line from the Canadian border to Deerfield.
CONCORD — Construction work on the Northern Pass Transmission project through Concord will impact Karner blue butterfly habitat in the pine barrens, a project official testified Thursday.
InDepthNH.org’s Nancy West and NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown were interviewed by John Dankosky about Northern Pass in a segment on renewable energy for NEXT, a show about New England from the New England News Collaborative and WNPR.
The race is on to bring clean, renewable energy to the Northeast and Hydro-Quebec holds the biggest reservoir of electricity.
CONCORD — The piece of legislation that hundreds of Northern Pass protesters shouted down at the State House a little over two weeks ago – Senate Bill 128 – was retained Tuesday by a 20-1 House committee vote.
While the Forest Society called Northern Pass’ purchase of five North Country properties through middlemen inflated by $500,000 a “shell game,” the project’s spokesperson Martin Murray said ratepayer dollars were not used and it is common to buy property along proposed transmission routes.
CONCORD — Twenty-two businesses, including the Common Man restaurant and Plymouth State University, would be seriously disrupted if Northern Pass buries transmission lines through downtown Plymouth, according to letters discussed Thursday on Day 9 of the state Site Evaluation Committee’s adjudicative hearing.
CONCORD – Grafton County Attorney Lara Saffo dropped a bombshell at Thursday’s adjudicative hearing asking Northern Pass experts why the project purchased five North Country properties at highly inflated prices to the tune of $500,000 through four different LLCs instead of directly from the landowners.
CONCORD — Northern Pass transmission project officials reassured communities Wednesday the final design and construction plan would incorporate changes needed to address problems raised at hearings this week.