• A high voltage electric transmission line traversing 180 miles through New Hampshire to bring hydropower from Quebec to the New England electric grid.
• A Quebec-government driven private, for-profit venture intended to compete in the US power market by providing lower-cost power than most domestic sources.
• A transmission corridor requiring 40 miles of new right of way (ROW), and significant expansion of existing ROWs in the North Country, including through the Pondicherry Wildlife Refuge, 10 miles of the White Mountain National Forest, and across the Appalachian Trail.
• A project requiring tower structures 90-135 feet high and ROWs up to 410 feet wide, cutting a swath through some of NH's most scenic landscapes, and degrading public and privately-held lands and natural and recreation resources of state, regional, and national significance.

• To protect key public lands like the White Mountain National Forest: like the proposed multi-lane interstate highway through Franconia Notch in the 1970s, we cannot stand by while resources we have worked to protect and that are enjoyed by millions each year are compromised by infrastructure that degrades the resource one project at a time.
• The power source is not "green" as advertised:
• • requires massive hydro impoundments in Quebec, the five largest of which would flood 50% of NH alone, and which would not meet US environmental standards; inundation of those boreal forest lands produces greenhouse gas emissions and releases mercury.
  • Diverts multiple large rivers, most larger than any river in NH, with devastating impacts on hundreds of miles of river ecosystems.
• Alternative designs: the project Applicant has not considered important alternative routes or transmission technologies (like burying the power lines) and minimal substantive data underlying project assumptions has been made available to the public.
• Lack of community support: the transmission line would pass through 31 New Hampshire communities, 28 of which have voted to oppose the project.

• Learn about how this project may impact places and resources you care about.
• Engage yourself and your friends in the public processes around permitting for the project.
• Learn more at the Conservation Law Foundation, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests' and the Department of Energy's websites for this project.

What has AMC done?

• AMC has filed a motion to intervene in the permitting process and has detailed its opposition to the project as proposed in its filing with the Department of Energy.
• Read Motion to Stay Proceedings and for Preparation of Comprehensive Assessment of Need, April 28, 2011 >>
  
• Read AMC's Scoping Document, June 14, 2011 >>
  
• Read full details of AMC's motion to intervene >>
• Read AMC's Northern Pass public testimony, March 16, 2011 (PDF) >>
• Read AMC's Letter requesting Post-Scoping Report and Decisions on Pending Filings, March 31, 2011 (PDF) >>