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  • Northern Pass Plans Appeal to Supreme Court

    July 13, 2018

    CONCORD — Northern Pass officials plan to file an appeal with the state Supreme Court by an Aug. 13 deadline in an effort to jump-start a hydroelectric transmission project that a state committee denied.

    The Site Evaluation Committee on Thursday issued a 72-page written decision that ...

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  • SEC Denies Motion for Rehearing in Writing

    Jack Savage
    July 12, 2018

    The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Commitee (SEC) issued its anticipated written decision denying a Motion for Rehearing requested by Eversource ...

  • Regulators Refuse Northern Pass Reconsideration

    May 25, 2018

    CONCORD — State utility regulators voted 7-0 on Thursday to reject a motion to reconsider their decision turning down the $1.6 billion, 192-mile Northern Pass Transmission project.

    Project developer Eversource wanted the Site Evaluation Committee to vacate its February decision denying ...

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Eversource Files Northern Pass Appeal--Again--Ahead of May Hearing

by Annie Ropeik, NHPR
April 27, 2018
Northern Pass at SEC

Eversource has filed a new version of its request for a new hearing on its proposed Northern Pass transmission line.

The state Site Evaluation Committee, or SEC, is already scheduled to discuss the utility's appeal on May 24.

But the committee hadn't yet put out its formal, written denial of the project the first time Eversource made that request, in February.

So the utility’s new filing Friday takes the written denial into account. But Eversource spokesman Martin Murray says the basic idea is the same.

"It's really the failure of the SEC to consider conditions that could cure the concerns that the SEC expressed,” he says.

If the SEC doesn't want to re-open the case, Eversource could appeal directly to the state Supreme Court.

Murray also says Eversource wasn’t aware that groups who support Northern Pass planned to ask this week for two SEC members to be removed from future hearings on the project. 

He says the utility doesn’t plan to comment on that request. The SEC also has not responded.

Eversource Files Northern Pass Appeal--Again--Ahead of May Hearing

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