Eversource unveiled a new proposal for the controversial Northern Pass project Tuesday. It’s the power company’s latest effort to gain support for its plan to bring hydroelectric power from Canada into New England.
But it’s far from clear that this new proposal will take the volatility out of the fight over Northern Pass.
Jack Savage is with the New Hampshire Forest Society. The group has been critical of the project from the start and has been buying land to block the proposed route. Savage says it’s a step in the right direction, but not enough.
“There’s still two thirds of the line that they’re proposing to build overhead," said Savage. "There are communities and landowners from Clarksville to Deerfield who are going to be negatively impacted by that.”
As to the economic benefits described by Eversource, Savage argues they could go further.
“Tax impacts, job impacts. All of those kinds of things are only enhanced by further burial.”
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