Opinion
Let’s be real about subsidies
On behalf of their customers, solar developers request fair compensation for energy produced locally that supports NH’s economy
Hey fossil-fuel industry, where’s your proof?
Net metering creates more tangible benefits than costs, and those benefits accrue to everyone
2018 mental health legislation: a recap
There were three major issues before the Legislature in 2018 that the NH Community Behavioral Health Association (CBHA) identified as the most critical to addressing our state’s ongoing mental health crisis: Medicaid expansion reauthorization; workforce shortages in the behavioral health…
Taking the ‘sustainability’ challenge
Oct. 17, 2016: “PepsiCo Inc. today announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda designed to foster business growth in a way that … creat(es) a healthier relationship between people and food … contribute(s) to a more sustainable global food system and…
NH nonprofits are on a mission
On any ordinary day in New Hampshire, these things are happening: • Volunteers at soup kitchens are serving meals to hundreds of men, women and children in need. • At the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, sixth-graders are discovering…
The governor, and the state, are at an energy crossroads
Change is inevitable, despite the efforts of outside interests
Hey solar industry, why the subsidy?
We should not be trying to artificially grow an industry by holding ratepayers hostage
Burgess BioPower passes the cost-benefit test
The plant’s economic benefits far exceed any additional costs for the power it produces
Energy strategy update is really a ‘down-date’
The Union Leader has praised the recent update of the 2014 state energy strategy. This update was principally the product of two of Governor Sununu’s staffers, neither of whom had prior expertise in energy policy. Praise for the 2018 strategy…
