SEC Northern Pass Day 1: Regulators Discuss Project 'Loose Ends'

by Garry Rayno, IndepthNH

In the foreground from left, Will Abbott, Susanne Kibler-Hacker, Jack Savage and Jane Difley of the Forest Society, Larry Garland and Susan Arnold of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and Melissa Birchard of the Conservation Law Foundation, on hand with other intervenors and grass roots opposition at Day 1 of the SEC deliberations on the proposed Northern Pass transmission line project. Photo by Nancy West of InDepthNH.org.

While Site Evaluation Committee members are in general agreement that Eversource has the financial, technical and managerial capability to construct and operate the 192-mile Northern Pass transmission project, they believe loose ends and gaps need to addressed.

“I’m most concerned about attention to detail,” said Kathryn Bailey, vice chairman of the Site Evaluation Committee. “With other big projects, there is a rush to get finished and the details slip away. . . . We need to get the details right.”

The process needs to be slowed “down a little bit,” she said. “That may make it worse if it goes over to another construction season.”

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