The Corridor

This piece arose out of frustration. There is a current project in this state to create a power-line corridor running from the Canadian border through New Hampshire to Massachusetts, in order to bring electricity produced via hydropower from Quebec to the Northeast. Yet the very corridor itself threatens the destruction of miles of wilderness, and the electricity it will carry was produced by a massive conglomerate that has flooded entire valleys, destroyed fish populations, and displaced native peoples in order to build their hydroelectric dams.

This piece simply asks, is it worth it? Why not harness the renewable resources of your own state rather than outsource the destruction of wilderness to another state?