#NewHampshire said "No!" to #HydroQuebec #Massachusetts scheme!

Massachusetts to continue talks with #HydroQuébec for #NorthernPass project
Historic $680M electricity project was 1st approved in January, but rejected a week later by New Hampshire

The Canadian Press · Posted: Feb 16, 2018

"Despite a rejection in New Hampshire, Massachusetts will continue negotiations on a conditional basis with Hydro-Québec and its American partner #Eversource for the Northern Pass project.

"Hydro-Quebec is counting on the Northern Pass to supply Massachusetts for 20 years, starting in 2020, as part of a historic contract signed with the state in January.

"It is estimated that the #CrownCorporation could pocket $10 billion in revenue if an agreement is reached.

"The project was rejected by the New Hampshire Site Review Board, which refused to grant a licence essential to Northern Pass's completion in the state.

"The Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs says talks on the project could end by March 27.

"In the meantime, conditional negotiations may be conducted for another project, the #NewEnglandCleanEnergyConnect [#NECEC] , which would be carried out by Hydro-Quebec and #CentralMainePower."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/massachusetts-to-continue-talks-with-hydro-qu%C3%A9bec-for-northern-pass-project-1.4540291

#AvanGrid #HydroQuebec #CMPCorridor #PeterMills #JanetMills #Corruption #NorthWoods #SaveTheNorthWoods #SaveTheForests #BigElectricity #MainePol #NewHampshirePol #ProtectTheNorthWoods #QuebecHydro

This is NOT the first time #SearsIsland has been targeted with a destructive energy project! Tell #GovernorJanetMills to build the #WindTerminal on #MackPoint, instead of Sears Island. There is federal funding available, so there's NO REASON to be CHEAP (Mills has balked because #Maine would have to clean up #industrial #pollution at Mack Point -- which should be cleaned up anyways!

"The possible industrial development of the island has been a point of controversy for many years. Writer #EBWhite (#CharlottesWeb), a resident of nearby Brooklin, Maine, noted in a 1975 essay for the New Yorker that he had attended an evening forum about a #CentralMainePower Company proposal to construct a #NuclearPower plant on Sears Island. White reported to New Yorker readers that the Central Maine Power Company 'feels very good about nuclear generating plants, is not worried about #radiation or accidents.' [Or rise in sea temperature from heated wastewater causing environmental damage, apparently]. In response to a goat farmer, their spokesman acknowledged #radioactive 'iodine can contaminate milk... [b]ut he was cheerful about the prospect. You would simply put the animals on a controlled diet, he said, and after about forty days the radioactivity would be gone.' [#Hormesis anyone?] Facing #LocalOpposition, the plant was not built."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Island

#Environment #EndangeredSpecies #ProtectSearsIsland #WindTerminal #SandDunes
#Searsport #ProtectWahsumkik #Wahsumkik
#EndangeredSpecies #ProtectTheDunes #GovernorJanetMills #WabanakiAlliance #Wassumkeag

ICYMI - from 2019:

VERIFY: does Gov. #JanetMills' brother have ties to #CMPCorridor project?

NEWS CENTER #Maine verifies #PeterMills' involvement in the CMP corridor.

July 3, 2019

"In the last year, we have been bombarded with questions and concerns surrounding the #CMP transmission line project.

"Most recently, some of those concerns from you at home have shifted to Governor Janet Mills' support behind the project -- more specifically, if her brother, Peter Mills, has any ties to the corridor or if he has anything to gain from it.

"To verify these claims, NEWS CENTER Maine spoke with Peter Mills himself and referenced these public documents -- 'The Memorandum of Understanding between Central Maine Power Company and Western Mountains and Rivers Corporation'.

Here's what we found out.

"Mills does currently sit on the board of a charitable non-profit called Western Mountains and Rivers Corporation, an organization established back in 2017.

"He admits the non-profit has ties to CMP and the corridor project, but he says it's a very specific partnership.

"'The purpose of the corporation was to negotiate with #CentralMainePower and possibly #HydroQuebec to see to it that they would put together terms to mitigate in a public and charitable way, to mitigate for the impact of the power line if it were built.' says Mills. [I've seen this tactic before -- with #MaineTurnpikeAuthority donations to non-profits affected by #highway expansion]

"Public documents detail this agreement between the two entities, which includes CMP's requirement to provide $250,000 dollars to the non-profits trust fund; for start-up costs and other proceedings.

"It has been used to hire an #attorney to represent the interests of the #corporation in the #Legal proceedings before the #PUC and #LERK and the #DEP, and in negotiating for any mitigation terms including the creation of land rights of way in the #KennebecValley." says Mills."

Read more:

#MainePolitics #ClimateActivism #CorporateColonialism #CorporateFascism #Nepotism
#MaineTribes #Mining #GorhamSpur #GorhamConnector #SaveSmilingHillFarm #NoCMPCorridor

#CentralMainePower has bankrolled their own referendum.

Question One, “No Blank Checks,” is an effort to delay #publicpower -- giving them even more time to spend our power bill money on corporate propaganda.

Tell them to pound sand by #voting NO ON QUESTION ONE!

#Maine citizens have a years-long campaign to municipalize their two big (and generally lousy, disliked) investor-owned utilities (#IOUs), #CentralMainePower #CMP and #Versant, buying them out to form new #publicpower #MuniPower company #PineTreePower

Among arguments for the Nov. ballot measure, "CMP & Versant's owners in Norway, Qatar, Calgary should not be in control of our energy future" https://pinetreepower.org/

Ballotpedia: Maine Question 3, Pine Tree Power Company
https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Question_3,_Pine_Tree_Power_Company_Initiative_(2023)

And there goes our power in today's #maine storm. Can't blame #centralmainepower as it's blowing like crazy now.

Now to finish charts, calls and #priorauth requests before the various batteries run out.

#primarycare