Colebrook Meeting 10/29/11:
Over 100 people attended a landowner's meeting at Colebrook Elementary School to discuss the latest updates in opposition to Northern Pass, what could be the new route Northern Pass is seeking as well as some courageous landowners who have turned down Northern Pass' attempts to purchase their land.

Larry Rappaport
State Rep. Larry Rappaport (R-Colebrook) is a member of the House Committee on Science, Technology and Energy and is the lead sponsor of HB 648 that would ban eminent domain by public utilities for this type of project and updated the audience about what they can do.

Bob Baker
Attorney Bob Baker, resident of Columbia, moderate the eveneing's events and gave a talk about developments over the past year, issues regarding ROWs, addressed the "My New Hampshire" newspaper ads put out by Northern Pass, issues of eminent domain as well as what Northern Pass is doing to landowners.

Rick Samson
Rick Samson is a resident of Stewartstown and introduced landowners who refuse to sell to Northern Pass.

Lynn Placey
Lynn Placey of Stewartstown told of her experience with Northern Pass land agents and her refusal to sell to them.

Letters from Supporters
Bob Baker shared three letters from supporters who couldn't be at the meeting.

Will Abbott
Will Abbott, VP for Policy & Land Policy for the Society for Protection of NH Forests discussed eminent domain.

John Harrigan
John Harrigan is a columnist for the Union Leader and resident of Colebrook shared some key points that he dislikes about Northern Pass.

Roland Cotnoir
Roland Cotnoir of Colebrook is a former selectman and talked about the importance of local ordinances as a tool in fighting Northern Pass. He also led a contigent to Quebec to "plant" almost 5000 petitions to stop this project.

Bob Baker on Ordinances
Baker responded to Roland Cotnoir's ordinance suggestions by explaining "pre-emption" and why local ordinances still matter.

Bob Baker Q&A
Baker responded to a question about what the new timeline for the Northern Pass project could look like.

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