The developer of a high-voltage DC transmission line through Maine that would carry 1,200 megawatts of hydropower down from Quebec says access road plowing started Monday and construction will around Jan. 18.
This is the line that was proposed after New Hampshire shot down Northern Pass. It has also been opposed by the same sort of folks who don’t want big power lines build through undeveloped New England forests, but Maine state government has been more supportive.
Tux Turkel of the Portland Press-Herald has the details.
And speaking of wind power, here’s something that will ring a bell with those who watched the decade-long fizzle of Cape Wind: Rich people in New York think they shouldn’t have to see the wind farm’s power cable from their seashore homes (story here). Actually, it’s worse than that: The cable will be buried; they just don’t want a few weeks of construction to take place. And yes, of course, they say they “don’t oppose the South Fork project as a whole” … as long as it does absolutely nothing whatsoever that they don’t like.
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NH lost out on this clean power
Alex, I attended all the public hearings and testimony over several weeks of presentation against Northern-Pass [Hydroquebec and EverSrouce (was originally PSNH)]. Much of there arguments were false and had no evidence, some were straight out lies – never visited the landowner or checked with the state or county offices. Several Environmental reports were false concerning several rare and endangered “Butterflies” near Concord.
The real big problem surrounded the amount of EMF/EMP generated along the line, they could not come up with an acceptable answer even to us engineers, and their numbers were not believable [UNH students verified this …. and they were supposed to be experts???? plus several paid outside experts]
Hope the applicant corrected all their mistakes from the Debacle they caused in NH and Maine does not end up with bad electrical EMF/EMP radiation being emitted???
NH had more than 14,000 signed petitions submitted with expert testimony included, that the applicant was unable to respond to or justify what was in their Application. [the Quebec Pessimet Tribal elders came down and testified about the destruction the new line would do to their tribal lands…very important]