Citing some of the most promising features of the Northern Pass project, such as its deliverance of 1,200 megawatts of clean, reliable and low-cost hydroelectric energy and more than 1,200 jobs during a three-year construction period to New Hampshire, a column in the July 13 New Hampshire Business Review rebuffs many of the baseless claims of opponents to the project. Many of these falsehoods were included in a previous article, which the July 13 column’s writer, Martin Murray, a spokesman for Public Service of New Hampshire and Northern Pass Transmission LLC, clearly and successfully rebukes.
In the column, Martin notes that Northern Pass “will add about $25 million annually in tax payments to New Hampshire communities for years to come.”
Importantly, he also points out that its transmission lines would be placed within 140 miles of existing rights of way south of Groveton, N.H., as well as 40 miles of new rights of way in northern Coos Country where no transmission rights of way currently exist.
“The project would result in a significant reduction of emissions of carbon, reduce the price of energy here at home and across the region by hundreds of millions of dollars annually,” Martin states.
As Martin also expresses, New Hampshire’s economic future and Northern Pass are critical issues worthy of discussion — but are being hampered by the lack of any significant analysis or relevant facts on the issue by opponents.
It is for these reasons and more — and especially the many jobs the project will create for which IBEW Local 104 members will be qualified to occupy — that Local 104 strongly supports the Northern Pass project.
Local 104 fully agrees that Northern Pass presents a rare opportunity to provide New Hampshire with significant economic, energy and environmental benefits. IBEW Local 104 is ready and prepared, with a force or well-trained and highly experienced linemen, to help take New Hampshire into the future with the Northern Pass project!
To read the full article, “N.H.’s economic future needs projects like Northern Pass,” click here.