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Eversource NH president Bill Quinlan is listed as one of 44 hosts for a fundraising reception for Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday, which raised ethical questions among some opponents of the company’s controversial Northern Pass high-voltage transmission line project.
Construction season coincides with the biggest influx of tourists to New Hampshire and in Plymouth it also overlaps the beginning and end of the academic year for Plymouth State University.
CONCORD — Constructing the 192-mile Northern Pass Transmission line project will impact host communities and local traffic, but the effect will vary from locality to locality.
Critics of Dr. William Bailey’s testimony at last week’s Northern Pass hearings that the project poses no threat to public health and safety call him a “hired gun” out to serve only the interests of the controversial 192-mile high-voltage transmission line proposed to run from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
DIXVILLE — State transportation officials are holding off spending about $2.3 million to repair a road at the Balsams Resort until it is clear that developer Les Otten is moving ahead with the project.
CONCORD — Radio personality Brian “Bulldog” Tilton spoke to about 350 protesters who circled the State House Sunday to show their disapproval of Eversource’s plan to build a 192-mile high-voltage Northern Pass transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
CONCORD – Questions about possible health risks to the elderly residents of Sherburne Woods in Deerfield from Northern Pass’s electromagnetic field took center stage Wednesday on Day 5 of hearings that will determine the fate of the proposed 192-mile transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
LANCASTER – Developer Les Otten said he has spent about $7.1 million on his effort to redevelop the Balsams Resort, the project is moving ahead and some construction could occur this summer.
The fourth day of hearings on the $1.6 billion, 192-mile transmission project to bring 1,090 megawatts of Hydro-Quebec electricity from Canada through New Hampshire to the New England grid saw counsel for the public spar with a Northern Pass witness over health effects from exposure to electromagnetic fields.
From Northern Pass’s inception through December 2016, Eversource has invested $190.5 million in development costs for Northern Pass including about $50 million for land purchases, Eversource’s Kenneth Bowes told regulators.