新英格兰州长的计划为巨型级气管管道和电力线提供新项目的计划，以向该地区传达更多的电力，进一步新利18备用网址加剧了为期四年的战斗，带来了环保主义者，土地所有者和其他相信的强烈反对这些计划将在不相当考虑较低成本的替代方案的情况下利用数十亿美元的公共资金。

The pipeline would increase capacity by 20% within three years; the transmission line would deliver hydro- electric energy from Canada.

6月24日，在他的博客Ch​​ristophe Courchesne上发布了通过《信息自由法》请求获得的文件。CLF声称各州和非营利性新英格兰国家电力委员会正在故意秘密工作，他希望州长和内斯科“为[规划]流程带来透明度”，Courchesne表示。

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Mark Sylvia, undersecretary of energy for Massachusetts, argues the governors' initiative has involved many stakeholders. "Reliability is very real for all New England states to assure the lights remain on," he says. Last winter's price volatility may have indicated the region's vulnerability and "potential for a long-term problem."

Massachusetts has worked toward energy efficiency with its aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction goals, but that alone won't solve the issue, he notes. "We have to replace energy generation with the cleanest resources available," he says.

Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH), a Northeast Utilities subsidiary, holds that the $1.4-billion Northern Pass project—a plan to run 187 miles of new power lines from Canada down through New Hampshire—would benefit New Hampshire and New England.

ISO New England, the regional grid operator, estimates that up to 8,300 MW of non-gas-fired generation from 28 older oil and coal units is "at risk" for retirement by 2020.

The Northern Pass would deliver 1,200 MW of "clean, renewable and affordable" hydropower that would help to reduce wholesale power costs by up to $350 million a year, says Lauren Collins, PSNH spokeswoman. It has received ISO-NE approval and is now in federal permitting.

另一个引起争议的项目是金德·摩根（Kinder Morgan）的田纳西州天然气管道东北能源直接项目。该公司网站称，该公司正在寻求监管部门的批准，以升级其367英里的天然气管道系统，该系统为纽约，宾夕法尼亚州，马萨诸塞州，新罕布什尔州和康涅狄格州提供服务。该项目的容量可以从每天约6亿立方英尺到每天22亿立方英尺。

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Jack Savage, spokesman for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, says one of the overriding concerns for the Northern Pass and the proposed pipelines is the extent to which those plans would impact existing conservation easements since "we have a legal and ethical obligation to uphold terms of those easements."

他问：“如果我们在能源需求方面花费了哪些类型的效率来降低我们的[能源需要]，而不是花费数十亿美元在纳税人补贴的基础设施上，而是在等式的供应方面。？”