Recent content by Waumbek

Coming to the party a little late, I realize, but I'll add that there's a detailed description of Mt Prospect and its former panoramic views in Moses Sweetser's "White Mountains: A Handbook for Travelers" (1879; first ed. 1876). (I haven't checked to see if Sweetser lifted it from Thos. Starr...

New petition to NH Governor Hassan to stop or bury the Northern Pass transmission line, to be presented to her on the occasion of the 38th annual New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers economic/energy conference at Bretton Woods in July 2014. The goal is 6,000 signatures; nearly 2,000...

SUP v. ROW For the 10-mile route through the WMNF that Northern Pass is proposing, it wants to co-locate in the corridor that PSNH uses for its 115kV line (X-178). PSNH has no right-of-way, that is, no land rights or underlying easement, for seven of the ten miles in that corridor. It exists...

The PNGTS ROW in NH is 50' wide, with the current pipeline buried on a 15' centerline, leaving room for a second pipeline on the rest of the easement. So, two questions/observations on this scenario follow. First, there isn't enough room for DC transmission towers on the PNGTS ROW; second, PNGTS...

On the western upslope side of Cannon/Kinsman, we are getting hammered with rain; winds gusts are still down around 20 mph. Power is on but flickering. The soggy ground will more likely drop trees than the wind. Yesterday you could easily have rock-hopped across our local stream that feeds into...

This is called New Hampshire's "greatest winter fair," with lots of interesting things for outdoors folks to do and see. Manchester NH, Feb. 4-5. Info here: http://www.nhfarmandforestexpo.org/index.html

PB--NIMC has spread into NH. See proposed HB 302. Hearing in Concord on Feb 8. How's that for fast?

I hope you are right. Hydro-Quebec, which is financing this project, made a profit of $2-3B (US) last year. A couple of "expensive" properties in Concord NH aren't going to stop them. Public opposition is important but only if it galvanizes politicians into action. That takes writing lots of...

So....? What is your implication?

Girdling is a technique used in "release" programs such as apple tree release in old, overgrown orchards being restored. The smaller competing growth is removed outright, usually with loppers, but larger competing trees are girdled with a chainsaw incision around the base. This interrupts the...

Interesting. I am unfamiliar with the term "brown hydro." Does it generally mean "not green," or is there a more specific meaning?

I think you are referring to the Champlain Hudson Power Express, a Hydro-Quebec HVDC project to send power to Yonkers, I believe. The lines will be underground, I also understand. The Northern Pass project will ship power predominantly south of the NH border. Only about 20% of it will go to...

There's a greenie coming your way on this one. Thank you. From what I have been reading since I first posted, this proposed powerline, using a 150' cleared ROW now in the Reel Brook area, will continually be subjected to "upgrades"--more lines and consequent widening of the ROW down the road as...

So how does the argument in this link relate to the discussion at hand about the prohibitive expense of burying the Northern Pass HVDC line? http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/03/invisible-underground-hvdc-power-costs-no-more-than-ugly-towers

I am just getting wind of this project and do not find mention of it in a forum search. Nor do I know much about it yet other than the fact that the HV lines aim to transmit power from Quebec to NH/New England. There's a first public meeting on Monday in Sugar Hill and Franconia; presumably the...