Northern Pass Info & Planning Meeting, June 9, 2013

Northern Pass Information & Planning Meeting

Sunday, June 9, 2013, 3:00-5:30 p.m.

Easton Town Hall, 1060 Easton Valley Road (Rte. 116), Easton NH 03580

All are welcome ~ Refreshments

On Sunday, June 9, there will be an information and planning meeting on the proposed Northern Pass Transmission project. The Town of Easton and Easton Conservation Commission will host the meeting.

Easton is at the mid-point of Northern Pass’s proposed 180-mile route from Pittsburg to Deerfield.

C’mon up, c’mon down! Join others working statewide to stop this proposed project!

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Information Updates

Susan Schibanoff, BNP and REAL: Overview of project status on the “Lower 140” and “Upper 40+.”

Representative Susan Ford, Easton, Grafton District 3: This year’s legislation on energy-related matters.

Will Abbott, VP Policy & Land Management, SPNHF: The Connecticut Headwaters easement.

Susan Arnold, VP Conservation, AMC: Northern Pass’s potential visual impact on NH, North and South.

Christophe Courchesne, Staff Attorney, CLF: Practical alternatives to Northern Pass, including National Grid’s new request to maximize capacity on its existing HVDC line in western NH.

Bob Baker, REAL: Recent efforts by Connecticut and Rhode Island to subsidize Canadian hydropower.

Jim Dannis, REAL: The economics of Northern Pass.

Planning

Nancy Martland, Coordinator, STOP, will moderate the planning and action session. Please come and share your ideas about how to continue and expand our statewide outreach on Northern Pass!

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Co-sponsored by Alliance Against Northern Pass, BNP (Bury the Northern Pass), Coalition Against Northern Pass, Easton Conservation Commission, Live Free or Fry, Poore Family Foundation, Powerline Education Fund, REAL (Responsible Energy Action LLC), STOP (Sugar Hill Tower Opponents)

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Don’t forget to visit STOP’s Northern Pass Info Booth at the Lupine Festival Market on the way.

 Sunday, June 9, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Sugar Hill Town Hall, Rte. 117 (up the hill from Polly’s) 

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SB99 Hearing - Not What You Thought It Would Be?

From the April 3, 2013 Littleton Courier.

Plymouth Chamber Pans the Pass

The Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce represents the business communities in the Plymouth, Newfound, Squam, and Waterville Valley areas. 




March 7, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 603-536-1001
Email: info@plymouthnh.org

Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce Opposing Northern Pass

The vast majority of the members of the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce do not support the Northern Pass Transmission Project as proposed. As such the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce wishes to go on record opposing this project as proposed.

Our mission is to promote the greater Plymouth area as a unique place to live, work and play, recognizing its business, social and economic opportunities. We fail to see how this project assists in fulfilling this mission. To the contrary we view the proposed project as a detriment to the region for the following reasons:

·        The project will negatively impact the tourism industry upon which our region heavily depends, directly and indirectly, as it will irreparably scar the area's iconic natural beauty;
·        The project will not contribute in any meaningful way to the region's long term economic health, and will likely reduce both tourism and local property values;
·        Power for this project will be generated by a foreign utility. Local power producers and future renewable energy projects would be put at a competitive disadvantage.
·        There are no guarantees that this imported power will lower electric rates in NH.

We understand that some Chambers of Commerce in regions of NH not subject to any direct impact from this project have chosen to publicly support the project. As a Chamber representing an area where the project will have significant direct impact, an impact which we feel will be negative, we feel the need to state our opposition to the proposed plan. The Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce is a pro-business organization, but we do not feel that the Northern Pass Project as proposed will benefit central NH, its businesses, communities or citizens in an economic, financial or civic way.
                                                                            
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