Dueling lawsuits emerge in hydropower saga and four more stories: The Saturday Send
SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE TIMELY POSTS! The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, dueling lawsuits were filed between Massachusetts’s electric suppliers and the Canadian hydropower company tasked with delivering energy into New England. The cases call into question the viability of a project intended to provide 20 percent of Massachusetts’s electricity — and exposes just how volatile the state’s energy mix continues to be. Jordan Wolman has more on the unfolding legal drama. Plus, as projected sea-level rise has Massachusetts considering whether communities should retreat from the coast altogether, Plymouth — one of the towns facing an uncertain future as encroaching waters threaten its people, economy, and tax base — might have a solution; an election year, surging utility costs, and an energy grid stretched to its limits has set the stage for a delicate dance between Gov. Maura Hea...