Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home
Outside/In
NHPR
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Generally, I have a great job, but there are some pitfalls. |
| 0:05.0 | When you cover environmental issues in the state of New Hampshire, |
| 0:08.0 | there's a conversation that is just inevitable. It happens with people I've just met. |
| 0:17.0 | It happens with people I've just met. |
| 0:19.0 | It happens with my most dear friends. |
| 0:22.0 | We're gathered to show our opposition to a project that is not necessary. |
| 0:28.0 | Eventually, people want to know what I've been |
| 0:35.0 | think of the Northern Pass. When I first learned about the Northern Pass, I was astounded. |
| 0:37.0 | I've been covering Northern Pass for six years. |
| 0:40.0 | I've filed dozens of stories on it, |
| 0:42.0 | done a three-part radio series about it. I talk on |
| 0:45.3 | talk shows about it. It's a very big, very divisive issue in New Hampshire. People |
| 0:51.5 | have bumper stickers on their cars and signs in their front |
| 0:55.2 | yards about it. I mean it even came up in a Republican primary debate. |
| 0:59.1 | Mr. Trump you have said quote I love eminent domain. |
| 1:02.1 | The Northern Pass is a proposed piece of |
| 1:05.0 | infrastructure. It's a power line 240 miles long that would stretch from |
| 1:10.6 | southern Quebec to southern New Hampshire. |
| 1:13.0 | Here in New Hampshire, a project, though, known as the Northern Pass, |
| 1:16.0 | would bring hydroelectric power from Canada into the northeastern grid. |
| 1:20.0 | Do you see eminent domain as an appropriate tool to get that project done? |
| 1:24.2 | Well, let me just tell you about eminent domain because almost all of these people |
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