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Forest Society Calls on New Hampshire SEC to Deny Northern Pass

January 12, 2018

Concord, NH Jan.

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Forest Society Post-Hearing Memorandum to SEC on Northern Pass

This document is the post-hearing memorandum filed at the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee by the Society for the Protection New Hampshire Forests January 12, 2018.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GUIDE TO THIS MEMORANDUM... 1

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.. 2

ARGUMENT. 14

I.    The Proposed Project Would Have Unreasonable Adverse Effects on Aesthetics and Historic and Archeological Sites. 14

A.  The Proposed Project Would have Unreasonable Adverse Effects on Aesthetics. 15

1.   Applicant’s Witnesses for Aesthetics did not Comply with SEC Law.. 15

SEC Northern Pass Hearings Come to a Close

Will Abbott
December 22, 2017

The Site Evaluation Committee has formally closed its evidentiary hearing on the Northern Pass project. The next step in the SEC process is for all parties to present the SEC with “post hearing memos” summarizing their respective arguments.  The Counsel for the Public and all interveners have unt

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Eversource Spending on Northern Pass Approaches $250 Million

December 21, 2017

CONCORD — Eversource spent a quarter of a billion dollars on the Northern Pass project through September as it awaits a key ruling in February.

“Eversource has paid as of Sept. 30, $249 million in Northern Pass-related expenses,” project spokesman Martin Murray said Wednesday.

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The Hoobub and the Grinch

Jack Savage
December 21, 2017

With apologies to the oft-parodied Dr. Seuss, who first wrote about the grinch in a short (32-line) rhyming fable called “The Hoobub and the Grinch” published in Redbook magazine in 1955 (Marlon Brando on the cover of that issue, by the way.)

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More of Northern Pass to be Buried: In Quebec, Not New Hampshire

November 22, 2017

 

From Radio Canada

(Translated to English)

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Forest Society Response to Draft WMNF Decision on Northern Pass Special Use Permit

This letter serves as a formal response to the Draft Record of Decision (ROD) issued August  31, 2017 by Thomas G. Wagner, then Supervisor of the White Mountain National Forest  (WMNF), on the matter of issuing a Special Use Permit (SUP) for the Northern Pass Transmission project to use and occupy land owned by the Forest Service.

Consultant Questions Whether Mass RPF Will Choose Northern Pass or GSPL Bids without Approvals

October 12, 2017

CONCORD — A Massachusetts energy consultant Tuesday questioned whether the Bay State, in search of new sources of clean power, would choose proposed transmission projects, such as Northern Pass or a National Grid alternative, that don’t have all the necessary approvals.

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Study: Unusual Practices by Eversource Cost New England Customers

October 12, 2017

A new study says Eversource and Avangrid artificially inflated electricity prices costing New England consumers $3.6 billion over three years by scheduling deliveries on the Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline, then not flowing the gas.

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