Northern Pass pick hamstrings Lake Champlain clean up funding

Utility lines on a pole. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerQuebec taxpayers scored a major victory last week when their state-run utility, Hydro Quebec, won an historic contract to supply enormous quantities of hydroelectric power to Massachusetts.
The project is called the Northern Pass transmission line, and will transmit up to 1,090 megawatts at a time; the contract with Massachusetts is for 9.45 terawatt-hours, which is enough electricity to power 1 million homes for a year.
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