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Protests Greet New England Governors And Eastern Canadian Premiers

Protesters gathered Sunday to push back against energy development ahead of a meeting Monday between the New England Governor’s and Premiers of the Eastern Canadian Provinces.

Energy and trade will be the focus of the dignitaries, who last met in Quebec in September.

Northern Pass opponents gathered a few miles from the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, the site of the conference, and waved signs to passing cars.

Will Abbot, with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests the proposal to connect Quebec’s hydro-power dams to New England.

"We hope that the governors will follow Governor Hassan’s lead in suggesting there may very well be a better way of doing it than what’s being proposed," Abbot said.

Meanwhile, just across from the hotel, activists with Tar Sands Free Northeast, like Dorian Williams, pushed against Canada’s extraction of oil from the Alberta Tar Sands, and a proposal to build new natural gas pipelines in Massachusetts.

"All the New England Governors signed a letter to NEPOOL asking that they increase electric rate-payers fees in order to pay for Kinder-Morgan and Spectra to be building these pipelines," Williams said.

Last September the delegates signed a non-binding resolution emphasizing energy efficiency and energy trade.

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. His work has won several local broadcast journalism awards, and he was a 2013 Steinbrenner Institute Environmental Media Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. 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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