Monday marks the two-year anniversary of Eversource’s decision to give up on its plan to construct a $1.6 billion, high voltage, 192-mile transmission line traversing New Hampshire from north to south.
The Connecticut-based utility pulled the plug on the project, which would have been the state’s largest construction project since the Seabrook nuclear power plant, after the state Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Site Evaluation Committee’s 7-0 decision denying the company’s application a week earlier.
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