Many have made the argument that Northern Pass provides little benefit to New Hampshire, while the state has to bear all the negative consequences of the project. In this blog, I have relayed the fact that this power is earmarked for southern New England and that New Hampshire doesn’t need the power because we [...]
I just read this interesting article on the Scientific American website (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-solar-challenge-natural-gas) that analyzes a report by Citigroup which shows that the cost of residential solar electricity is now equal to or cheaper than natural gas in several regions of the world, including the Southwest U.S., and that utility-scale solar will be cheaper than natural [...]
The above photo from Sugar Hill, New Hampshire represents what I believe people expect to see when they venture into northern New Hampshire. Sugar Hill is one of the majority of Northern Pass towns and villages that have voted to oppose the project. If you’ve been here to photograph the lupine fields in bloom [...]
Some interesting news from Northern Pass today. As reported by New Hampshire Public Radio, “During a quarterly conference call Thursday officials at Northeast Utilities, the parent company of the Northern Pass project, said while they have a new route they still aren’t ready to say where it goes. ” You can read the whole [...]
70%. That’s how much more electricity is produced in New Hampshire than is consumed there (according to the arbiter of such things, ISO-New England.) So why would people who live in the state accept 180 miles of high-voltage power lines mucking up views in their favorite places, lowering property values, and potentially creating health [...]
It seems that outside of the state, many people think New Hampshire goes no further north than the White Mountains, but those people are missing out on Coos County, home to The Great North Woods, an area of small New England villages scattered amongst farmland, rugged forested mountains and the headwaters of two of [...]
Many have made the argument that Northern Pass provides little benefit to New Hampshire, while the state has to bear all the negative consequences of the project. In this blog, I have relayed the fact that this power is earmarked for southern New England and that New Hampshire doesn’t need the power because we [...]
