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New Hampshire’s total energy consumption and per capita energy consumption are among the lowest in the Nation. New Hampshire Energy Consumption US Energy Information Administration Independent Statistics |
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The Northern Pass project: A New Boa Constrictor in the White Mountains? written by Rebecca Weeks Sherrill More, a descendent of John Wingate Weeks, a man who was instrumental in legislation that established the National Parks. More_Boa Constrictor_2010 PDF |
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Many conservation organizations in NH have now filed petitions to intervene in the Presidential Permit process. · The Society for the Protection of NH Forests · The Appalachian Mountain Club · VIEW THIER PETITION PDF |
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" A Unique Opportunity in Time " |
| Like many nations around the world, the New England states have set aggressive goals for reducing carbon emissions as part of their climate change action plans through conservation and regionalized renewable green energy projects like hydro, wind, solar and biomass. One initiative that is uniquely devastating to advancing these goals in the electricity sector is The Northern Pass transmission project designed to import up to 1,200 megawatts of unnecessary electric power (from Hydro Québec’s, coal, nuclear, wind, hydro and oil fired facilities) from Canada into the lower New England power grid at two cents per Kilowatt Hour. This massive transmission power line project will cut the State of NH in half, including the White Mountains, with a huge high voltage electric corridor, one that will far surpass any existing corridor in NH to date, with monster towers in excess of 135 feet in height. Two years into the planning and permitting stages gives Northeast Utilities a unique opportunity in time to acquire over 140 miles of new Right-Of-Way(s) through populated, rural regions of NH, some by Eminent Domain, before the host communities have a chance to consider the potential health, environmental and economic impacts. The Northern Pass / Hydro Québec High Voltage Direct Current Power Line project offers a means to significantly cripple New England’s energy diversity; it will increase the Nations dependency on foreign power and devastate Northern NH’s economy, which is primarily tourism based. This Hydro Québec power line will deliver a supply of electricity at a price that will eliminate any competition and any proposed New England based green energy projects — for decades to come. |
VISUAL POLLUTION This is what the North Country of New Hampshire looks like.  |
This is what the North Country of New Hampshire could look like.  |
SOLUTION STOP THE NORTHERN PASS TRANSMISSION PROJECT FOR LACK OF NEED AND STOP OUR NATION’S DEPENDANCE |
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There is no need for this electricity in NH in the first place. We produce more than we consume and export the excess power. All this power is headed to Massachusetts and Connecticut. There is no need to destroy NH’s landscape and our economy to benefit some corporate giants: Hydro Quebec, NSTAR and Northeast Utilities. There is already other new Canadian Corridors in the works for Western Vermont and Maine with all the HVDC power headed to points South. There is no need for another one in NH. One of these corridors, the Champlain-Hudson Power Express project, proposed by Toronto-based Transmission Developers Inc., has proposed a $3.8 billion power line running 420 miles from Quebec to Connecticut under Lake Champlain, the Hudson River and Long Island Sound. Here is a PDF chart showing NH population, Energy Consumption, Energy Imports and Interstate Energy Flow over the last 50 years. New Hampshire Energy Consumption US Energy Information Administration Independent Statistics Another project, the “Maine Express” HVDC Line, http://transmissiondevelopers.com/usercontent/ http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/ |
| ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS 1) BURY THE LINE IN THE EXISTING NORTH EAST KINGDOM HVDC CORRIDOR |
| This a unique opportunity in time to force this utility company, Northern Pass LLC, to do something innovative, something that many other nations are doing, including our own, that is burying these HVDC power lines under ground and water. Burying the transmission lines via Superconductor Electricity Pipelines is a viable, secure and safe alternative that will meet less resistance and can be buried in or along side of the existing North East HVDC Corridor, that traverses the North East Kingdom and down to the proposed converter station in Franklin. Instead of creating the visual eyesore and a potential health hazard through Coos County and through the White Mountains, that will have an adverse effect on our economy as the above ground transmission towers and lines will, an alternative solution is to bury the transmission lines through high capacity, high efficiency, secure power lines placed underground or water for the entire 140 miles of the project. Today, these are of comparable cost to above ground lines and have next to no loss of electric power over the length of the line, opposed to 12% to 25% loss of over-head, open-air, lines. Current projects using this technology, http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ http://www.chpexpress.com/technology.php Electric Pipeline solutions http://www.elpipes.com/ PDF Conventional Elpipes For Long Distance Transmission PDF Elpipes for Grid Evolution American Superconductors Pipeline solutions http://www.amsc.com/products/powerpipelines http://www.amsc.com/images/animation |
 Invisible, Underground HVDC Power Costs Burying Transmission Lines HVDC Light® |
2) Investing in, and cultivating, local green energy sources. In May 2007, New Hampshire adopted a renewable portfolio standard that requires 25 percent of the State’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2025. Hippo Press: Power to the People New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Resource |
| WHO'S TAKING OUR LAND? |
| Northern Pass Utility Conglomerate Northernpass.us Proposed Route map Learn more about the merger. Northeast to Buy NStar Eminent Domain Who's land is it? Learn more about the process invoked by NE Utilities/NStar to take peoples land. Eminent Domain - New Hampshire Board of Tax & Land Eminent Domain Procedure Act The Public Utilities Commission has been designated by our legislature to conduct any eminent domain proceedings under New Hampshire RSA Section 371.1. The following sections are the pertinent ones: RSA 371.1 through 371:24. Eminent Domain PUC statutes PDF NH Constitution Bill of Rights Is your Land in Jeopardy? Legal Help for Land Owners from the NH Bar Association PDF Things to Consider if Contacted by PSNH PDF |
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High voltage power lines pose a serious health risk to any human living or working nearby. · Childhood leukemia risk doubles within 100 meters of high voltage power lines. Read more here & here · Power Lines and Cancer. Study here & here · Electro Magnetic Fields and your Health.Powerline Facts YouTube Video 1 YouTube Video 2 Ionization The ionization of particles near high voltage power lines can have serious affects on both humans and the environment. Technical Summary Power Lines and Disease Energy Matters AMP |
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| The impact of high voltage power lines on both the local and national economies will be extremely negative. LOCAL · Home and property Value Depreciation. Read more · Destruction of Potential Logging and Farm Lands. · Drop in Tourism due to visual pollution and destruction of vital hunting, hiking and recreational land. NATIONAL · Increasing our dependency on foreign energy. · Keeping jobs outside the country instead of creating new jobs within. |
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| The towers pose a serious risk to local land and wildlife. · Destruction of local wildlife habitats and migration routes. · EMF / Radiation Pollution · Visual Pollution · Audible Pollution YouTube Video  High voltage power lines can discharge violently when sagging and over loaded. YouTube Video 1 YouTube Video 2 |
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