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  • Rising to the Occasion: How A Grassroots Effort Ultimately Defeated Northern Pass

    Nancy Martland
    January 30, 2020

    There were so many acts of opposition, large and small, that wove a varied tapestry conveying the unmistakable message of resistance and tenacity.

  • 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 ...

Northern Pass Foes: Fight Isn't Over

by Michael Cousineau Union Leader
April 23, 2017
Northern Pass
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CONCORD — Speakers told several hundred people attending a rally opposing Northern Pass on Sunday that the fight against the transmission power line project isn’t over and that they should write to legislators and a state committee considering the project.

“There is nothing that we will not do to fight this project, legally,” Sugar Hill resident Dolly McPhaul told the crowd from the steps of the State House. “I want to say that the opposition cannot be silenced and we cannot be bought.”

McPhaul told the story of a Stewartstown dairy farmer who turned down an offer of millions to sell his land for the project, which will include 132 miles of overhead power lines that opponents believe will hurt some of the state’s scenic views.

“This man was my hero and he has exemplified what is so much a part of the North Country people,” she said. “We treasure our land. We treasure our heritage. We treasure our views and we will not allow them to be destroyed, especially for money.”

That farmer, Roderick McAllaster, in a phone interview Sunday, said he was offered “in the vicinity of” $4 million for land to provide a route for Northern Pass to go through his dairy farm of 1,400-plus acres.

He said people he understood to be representing interests of Northern Pass made the offer several years ago before project officials decided to bury power lines near his property instead.

“If you bury these power lines (for the entire project), you don’t have to sacrifice the state of New Hampshire,” McAllaster said.
 

Click below to read the full story by Michael Cousineau in the Union Leader

Northern Pass Foes: Fight Isn't Over

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