Pemi Dodges Proposed Power Lines
Fantastic news! Your emails, letters, and calls have made a difference! This is the power of a grass roots movement! Northern Pass has proposed to the Department of Energy that they be allowed to withdraw the alternate routes from their proposal, including that which would have crossed Pemi land.
Help Us Stop High-Voltage Power Lines Over Pemi!
Last fall, the Fauver and Reed families learned of a proposal to run a high-voltage direct-current transmission line from the Canadian border down through New Hampshire to southern New England. The project, as well as the coalition of corporations proposing it, is called Northern Pass. While the reasons why any such transmission line is a bad idea would fill many pages, this became very personal when we discovered that the preferred route would slash through the heart of the White Mountain National Forest, and the alternate route would cut directly across the head of Lower Baker Pond, up over Pemi Hill, and eventually through the heart of Al and Bertha Fauver’s home farm in Plymouth.