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  • Eversource Pulls Final Plug on Northern Pass

    Will Abbott
    July 26, 2019

    On July 25, less than a week after the New Hampshire Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision affirming the also unanimous decision of the NH ...

  • Eversource Gives Up Northern Pass

    July 26, 2019

    CONCORD — Eversource has decided Northern Pass “has no path forward” after the New Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously decided to uphold the Site Evaluation Committee’s decision denying the $1.6 billion project.

    The company filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

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  • Eversource Pulls Plug on Northern Pass after NH Supreme Court Rebuke

    July 26, 2019

    Eversource has officially pulled the plug on the Northern Pass transmission line.

    The utility filed a notice with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission late Thursday, a spokesman says, “reflecting our conclusion that Northern Pass has unfortunately been brought to an end.” ...

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NH Supreme Court Issues Briefing Schedule for Northern Pass Appeal

Will Abbott
December 21, 2018
Northern Pass
Trees Not Towers, Photo by Jerry and Marcy Monkman, Ecophotography
Photo by Jerry Monkman/Ecophotography.

The NH Supreme Court issued a briefing order on December 20 in the Northern Pass appeal.  Northern Pass must file its brief by February 4, 2019, and those in opposition must file briefs six weeks later, by March 21.  Each brief is limited to 9,500 words.   The order also granted a joint motion filed by the Forest Society and multiple other parties opposed to Northern Pass suggesting that the Court use the same groupings for interveners filing briefs that the Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) used in its hearing process.  The briefing order also explained that the voluminous certified record of the Northern Pass case at the SEC was received at the Court on December 11 (in the form of two 265 gigabyte flash drives), and, that for purposes of the appeal, the record would be broken into three parts: 1) the docket (as it appears on the SEC website), 2) all exhibits entered into the SEC hearing record, and 3) all public comments submitted to the SEC while its docket was open.  The Court presented the Docket Table of Contents, Exhibits Table of Contents, and Public Comment Table of Contents, instructing all parties how to refer to documents in the record when citing them in briefs.  The Court’s order did not provide any indication of a schedule beyond that for the filing of briefings.  Given the size of the certified record and the number of other cases before the Court it could be a year from now before a final decision is rendered.          

Thank You for helping to defeat Northern Pass!

With the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision affirming the SEC decision, it is time --- as Governor Sununu said --- to “move on.”  Make a gift to the Trees Not Towers campaign to help celebrate this HUGE victory for New Hampshire!

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