Eversource withdraws from the Spectra-Algonquin “Access Northeast” pipeline project

Posted on 23 August 2016 by ecoquant

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Yes!

Now let’s hope the remaining customers for Spectra’s Access Northeast pull out, and FERC denies permission to proceed. Their next meeting is 22nd September 2016.

Lossage

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Update, 2016-08-24

National Grid and the rest of the utilities have pulled out of Spectra-Algonquin’s Access Northeast.

More.

About ecoquant

See https://wordpress.com/view/667-per-cm.net/ Retired data scientist and statistician. Now working projects in quantitative ecology and, specifically, phenology of Bryophyta and technical methods for their study.
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