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Kinder Morgan Officially Moves Preferred Pipeline Route To N.H.

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http://www.kindermorgan.com/content/docs/TGP_Northeast_Energy_Direct_Fact_Sheet.pdf

A natural gas pipeline developer says New Hampshire is now its preferred route for a brand new project it hopes to build in 2017.
 
Kinder Morgan, a Texas-based deveoper, had initially planned to route the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline through Northern Massachusetts. After grass-roots groups and several politicians pushed back against the plan, the developer began to explore alternatives.

The 77 miles of the pipelines would cross through seventeen towns near the state’s Southern border. A bit more than 63 miles of that pipeline would be buried underneath existing power-lines in rights-of-way owned by Public Service of New Hampshire.

According to company filings the pipeline would have to cross hundreds of wetlands and bodies of water, including major rivers, and would pass through 8 miles of state forest land.
The pipeline would cross into New Hampshire in Winchester, and back into Massachusetts again in Pelham.

If the project is built, the company estimates it will pay the state nearly $17 million dollars a year in taxes, and hire 520 temporary workers during the construction phase.

Assuming it is granted all the necessary permits, Kinder Morgan says it hopes to begin construction in 2017 and finish in twenty months.

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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