Northern Pass pick hamstrings Lake Champlain cleanup funding

Utility lines on a pole. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
Quebec 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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