CELDF shares an eight-part video series highlighting their grassroots work with partner communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
The series was completed in association with the Myrin Institute and with the support of the JustPax Fund.
Episode Three: The Grassroots Level
(Plymouth, New Hampshire)
For the better part of a decade, Plymouth residents have been working with CELDF to stop Northern Pass, a high-tower electrical transmission line carrying industrial hydro-power from Canada.
Community members recognized the Granite State was being used as an extension cord to deliver power to other states. The cost to communities: risks to their health, water quality, local economies, and surrounding ecosystems.Not only did they come together to stop Northern Pass, but to drive Community Rights and Rights of Nature into higher levels of law.
Community members recognized the Granite State was being used as an extension cord to deliver power to other states. The cost to communities: risks to their health, water quality, local economies, and surrounding ecosystems.Not only did they come together to stop Northern Pass, but to drive Community Rights and Rights of Nature into higher levels of law.