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A bill that would have extended the state’s timber tax to properties enrolled in carbon sequestration programs has been changed by a Senate committee to a study committee and moratorium.
Called an “existential threat” to the state’s $1.4 billion annual timber and forest products industry, state Senators were warned that HB 123 was unfair and would tax lands enrolled in carbon credit programs at least twice.
The next few years are going to be tough ones for New Hampshire anglers. New Hampshire hatcheries are being rebuilt and updated over the next few years, and for the past few years they have been operating under capacity, in order to meet EPA regulations.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Grafton County Superior Court by state residential and commercial property owners claims the state failed to meet the 1997 Supreme Court’s Claremont II decision declaring the use of local property taxes with varying rates to pay for the state’s obligation to provide its students with an adequate education is unconstitutional.
If all goes as planned, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department will soon complete its first land purchase in more than two decades.
Should you pay to subsidize wood-burning electric generating plants?
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DIXVILLE – If Balsams developer Les Otten got all the necessary permits and financing and opened a world-class resort business in the North Country, Dan Dagesse would have owned a chunk of it.
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.