THE RECENTLY PROPOSED $1.1 billion sale of Columbia Gas to Eversource provides an important opportunity to consider how we, the people of Massachusetts, want our public utilities to be governed and structured – and whether to pull them more firmly into the public domain. Public utilities are entities entrusted to provide critical public services to […]
Craig Altemose
Posted inOpinion
Three takes on natural gas
The following three opinion pieces all focus on the great divide in Massachusetts over natural gas and its accompanying infrastructure. Baker’s mixed record on climate change Craig Altemose EARLIER THIS MONTH, Gov. Charlie Baker traveled down to Washington, DC, to testify before a congressional committee about Massachusetts’s climate leadership. For many Americans, it was […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Cape Wind, on life support, deserves better
THE HEADLINES DO NOT look good for the country’s first offshore wind farm. On Jan. 7, National Grid and NSTAR announced that they would be canceling their contracts to buy most of the power from Cape Wind. Since then, the project has been on life support, at best. The lion’s share of Cape Wind’s troubles […]