As Massachusetts scrambles to proceed with its major clean energy project after Northern Pass’s application was recently denied, GOP Gov. Chris Sununu took to the radio on Friday to blast the Site Evaluation Committee’s unanimous 7 to 0 vote against building the controversial 192-mile powerline from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
Sununu said he was frustrated with the process in that the committee had four criteria to decide by law and chose to only look at one or two before voting it down in a surprise move on Feb. 1.
“So the ball is on the five-yard line and the referee stepped in and said ‘game over. We’re not even going to listen to anything else.’ That’s not right,” Sununu said speaking to Mike Pomp on NewsTalk 98.1 WTSN.
As a non-lawyer, Sununu said he didn’t know whether it was legal. But the decision came in too fast and never gave Eversource Energy/Northern Pass a chance to negotiate, he said.
“They couldn’t be more wrong. This was clearly a pre-staged decision, I think,” Sununu said.
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