Northern Pass

by Jane Difley

The following are President/Forester Jane Difley's remarks at the Forest Society's 113th Annual Meeting held Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.

Concord, NH Oct. 30 -- An additional 1,550 petitions, signed by citizens urging the burial of the proposed Northern Pass transmission line, were sent to the New Hampshire Governor’s Office today.

In which a groundhog predicts not only the remaining length of winter, but the outcome of Northern Pass.

From the beginning, the main issue the Forest Society has had with Northern Pass has been with how the project proposes to bring electrons to the marketplace.  We are not philosophically opposed to importing electricity from Canada, but we are opposed to the 180-mile scar that the proposed overhe

The New Hampshire Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion on July 19, 2019 affirming the unaninmous decision made by the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee on March 30, 2018 to deny Northern Pass a Certificate of Site and Facility.  Click here to learn more.