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Project Offers to Purchase Conservation Easement
The Northern Pass project today notified the Neil Tillotson Trust that it is willing to purchase the conservation easement over much of the property of “The Balsams,” if a sale of the easement to The Society for the Protection of … Continue reading
Northern Pass and The Balsams
This week we asked the Attorney General’s office to reject a portion of a proposed agreement between the Neil Tillotson Trust and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Specifically, while we wholeheartedly support the proposed conservation easement on … Continue reading
WMNF Special Use Permit application filed
The project this week filed with the U.S. Forest Service a required application outlining our proposed use of an existing transmission corridor within the White Mountain National Forest. The existing corridor within the WMNF was developed more than 60 years … Continue reading
DOE expected to extend comment period
We haven’t seen an official posting in the Federal Register yet, but NH Public Radio is reporting today that the US DOE will extend its comment period on The Northern Pass, in anticipation of a new route being proposed for … Continue reading
Project response to CLF call to halt the process
Today we filed with the U.S. Department of Energy our response to an earlier call by the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation to halt the current project permitting process. The CLF has asked the DOE to instead produce a single, broad … Continue reading
Project Changes Requested
The project team today filed a letter with the U.S. Department of Energy requesting immediate changes to the project’s Presidential Permit application. The changes are in response to significant concerns we’ve heard from local communities and landowners regarding the potential impact … Continue reading
Comment period extension requested
Members of New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation have reportedly requested that the period to submit comments to the U.S. DOE regarding the project be extended to April 30. We’ll post or link to a copy of the filing when it is … Continue reading
NPT asks DOE to end Normandeau Associates role in EIS process
The project today asked the US Dept of Energy to end the role of Normandeau Associates as the DOE’s Environmental Impact Statement contractor and to terminate the Memorandum of Understanding that outlined that role. In it’s letter to the DOE, … Continue reading
Transmission service agreement approved
The agreement, spelling out how costs associated with the project are dealt with, was recently approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Read the Order here.
Comment period officially extended by US DOE
A notice published today in the Federal Register announces that the U.S. Department of Energy has extended the comment, or “scoping,” period for the project. The extension is in anticipation of a new route being identified for the area from … Continue reading →