This past year was an important one in the Northern Pass saga. In 2015 Eversource announced the Forward New Hampshire Plan, which included the plans for a redesigned route that includes underground transmission lines along roads in and around the White Mountain national Forest and Franconia Notch region. The new Forward NH plan will have …
On Monday, December 7, the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) unanimously accepted the application submitted by Eversource to build the Northern Pass transmission project. The panel voted in favor of Eversource and the Northern Pass with a 6-0 vote. Now that the application has been fully accepted, Eversource looks forward to beginning the next …
The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station- the region’s largest carbon-free energy provider announced this week that it will permanently close by the middle of 2019. The 680 megawatt plant produces five percent of New England’s power and eighty-four percent of Massachusetts noncarbon emitting energy. Entergy, the energy conglomerate that owns Pilgrim, said that with the decreasing …
On Tuesday, Aug. 18, officials from Eversource Energy announced a new approach to the long-awaited Northern Pass project: Forward New Hampshire Plan. This plan, announced at Globe Manufacturing in Pittsfield, N.H., focuses not only on the state’s crucial energy issues, but also its economic and environmental concerns. It is a result of several years of discussion …
On Tuesday, July 21, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its long-awaited draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) examining the proposed Northern Pass transmission project and its possible modes of construction. The draft EIS revealed that the cheapest option for Northern Pass construction would be the proposed method of above ground lines, at a cost …
The upcoming IBEW Local 104 quarterly newsletter features many items pertinent to the interests of our members, including an update on the Northern Pass project, an article celebrating Judy McAndrew, 104’s first woman JL, and messages from Business Manager Brian Murphy and Referral Agent Jim Breare. In the Northern Pass portion of this quarter’s newsletter, …
The longtime sentiment of “Not In My Back Yard,” or NIMBY, by New Hampshire residents regarding potential infrastructure projects has taken on a more oppositional tone (and acronym) as of late – they’ve all gone BANANAs. A recent article in the Union Leader describes the BANANA stance as “Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.” While NIMBYs seem …
Back in April, New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation requested that the Department of Energy (DOE) provide an extended public comment period following the agency’s release of its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Northern Pass. The EIS was supposed to be released this year in the middle of spring, but now that we are in …