Maine Compass: Anti-hydro is bad science, and won’t address climate change
The assertion that Canadian hydropower reservoir emissions are comparable to fossil fuel is false, writes a former PUC commissioner and an analyst for Hydro-Quebec.
By Tom Welch and Alain Tremblay
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The New England Clean Energy Connect will deliver renewable electricity to Maine and New England from Hydro-Québec (HQ); it will reduce climate emissions; it will substantially benefit Maine’s economy; it will conform to rigorous environmental standards. These are conclusions from exhaustive scientific study and exhaustive review by objective institutions tasked with safeguarding the public interest.
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New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it?
Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms.
October 4, 2020
Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine s North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan
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As the sole residents of unorganized territory T5 R7 deep within Maine’s North Woods, Duane Hanson and his wife, Sally Kwan, have watched the land around them known for its natural beauty, diverse wildlife and recreational fishing transformed by decades of development.