AG's Office Holding Northern Pass Community Workshops

Lawyers representing the Office of the N.H. Attorney General are holding a series of workshops for members of the public interested in the visual impacts that the Northern Pass project, if approved, would have on communities from Pittsburg to Deerfield.  Sessions are scheduled for Littleton on Aug.  1, Colebrook on Aug.  2, and Lancaster on Aug. 3. All sessions start at 6 p.m.  Similar workshops in Concord and Ashland were held earlier this week. The sessions are not meant to gather public comments about the project. Rather, the purpose of these sessions is for members of the public to work together to provide experts hired by the Counsel for the Public (CFP) with information on each affected community's most important natural and historic features along the route.  See location and agenda details here. 

The CFP is an attorney at the Attorney General’s Office, appointed by the AG to represent the public’s interest in a well informed decision by the SEC subcommittee reviewing the application.  AG Joseph Foster has appointed Assistant AG Peter Roth to serve as CFP in the Northern Pass review.  One of the CFP’s roles is to test the thoroughness and claims made by the applicant.  Because of the enormity of the NP project,  Roth has exercised his statutory authority to hire outside legal counsel and to hire a number of experts to assist in his review of the NP project.