If we could award a contract for “UpTROLLing”, I think you’d get it, no-bid.

You were temporarily inconvenienced by the storm and now think that it’s because of unions.

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You're wrong. My wife develops housing communities across the country and has to deal with this all the time, but instead of anecdotal evidence let me post directly from FEMAs own site.

"Installing underground lines costs more initially than overhead lines, but the underground lines are less prone to damage and disruptions, and maintenance is less expensive."

Roughly 20” in Candia

I was in Bristol this morning and they got about 2 inches. You won't have to move much at all.

OP doesn't know about second winter?

You will know. The blackflies are the heralds of spring.

It starts in February, but also March, and also April

Also, these operating costs are most likely booked as annual accruals, whereas burying lines would have enormous up-front capital costs. In a capitalist environment, nobody wants to load that kind of debt

I heard about them a couple years back and was hoping to, eventually, get a plant visit, just because I'm a technical geek and I serve on my town's energy commission.

The process would seem to be very clean. I'm wondering if those 'rule violations' are paperwork compliance mandates?

Of course they're necessary, but it doesn't damage the value of the process.

I've seen the WM waste sortation facility in Billerica and the sheer volume of baled #2 they get makes it a terrific source. They also have a #4 stream they simple get incinerated that could also go to Groveton. Might be a nice tie in. I'm sure WM would have the horsepower to clean up the paperwork violations.

'For example, she said, dioxin, a highly toxic carcinogen, is a well-known product of heating plastic waste material.

“I think toxic substances could be in the fuels that these folks are looking to sell, and dioxins could be unknowingly released in the burning of those fuels,” she said. '

That allegation is misleading and fear mongering. The material that will do what she fears uses #3 (PVC) plastics. They have nothing to do with #2 and #4 HDPE and LDPE.

I'm concerned that the CLF's fearmongering is steering the discussion.

6 in Concord here. Boggles myind that just one city could have such different totals!

Go rent an excavator for a day, dig a hole in your yard. Then you'll know.

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I don't know how much tree trimming and storm response costs but burying stuff in NH costs as if everything is made out of gold. For example I wanted to switch from a well to city water and 150 feet of public road digging and fixing + 200 feet of digging on my land would have cost me close to $80,000!!!

So burying electrical lines everywhere would have to cost millions and millions.

Recycling of plastic, also known as; landfill.

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BTW, we are the public that the utilities are beholden too so let's keep talking

It's easy to speculate and blow steam on Reddit

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As we speak, the DOT is pushing an obscene amount of federal dollars down to NH munis for multimillion dollar bike lanes. There's plenty of money.

The new pentagon budget is 842 billion. Let's start there.

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Temperatures were right around 32 for many places (like my house). If it stayed slightly below, you got a lot of snow; if it stayed slightly above, you didn't. Extremely variable!

and it was very elevation-dependent.