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Gov.-elect Chris Sununu’s inaugural celebration website has added a more detailed sponsor list since it went online, but its $25,000 major donors – including Eversource – are still the most likely to raise concern.
The Counsel for the Public is asking for intermediate deadline delays and Northern Pass has until later this week to object.
An opponent of Northern Pass has been arrested for what she calls an act of passive resistance against the proposed hydro-electric transmission project, which is also facing pressure to provide more complete data responses to intervenors.
Supreme Court Justice Carol Ann Conboy said she won’t recuse herself from the city of Concord’s appeal even though she worked at one of Northern Pass’ law firms, McLane Middleton, years ago, still receives a McLane pension and gets legal advice from two of the firm’s directors.
Eleven Northern Pass technical sessions in Concord will be open to the public, but you will be asked to step outside if confidential information is discussed unless you are an intervenor and have signed a confidentiality agreement.
People are asked to identify places and areas of beauty, use, history, and tradition in their communities that are within 10 miles of the proposed Northern Pass transmission corridor that may be affected by the project.
Roger Wood spoke with Martin Murray, a spokesman for Eversource.
Roger Wood interviews Martin Murray, communications manager for Eversource, Catherine Corkery, director of the New Hampshire chapter of Sierra Club and Dan Dolan, president of Northeast Power Generators Association.
The ambitious project may be years away, but the battle is already underway over the massive Northern Pass electricity project in New Hampshire.
If ultimately built, a 192-mile transmission line will be constructed — underground and on towers — from Quebec province through New Hampshire. It would provide some 1,000 megawatts of power to the state and New England from Hydro-Quebec’s water driven hydro-electric plants in Canada.