Latest Links: PSNH Mulls Raising Rates, Mainer And Sierra Club Push To Curb Schiller Station Emissions

New Hampshire’s Business And Economics News In Brief

Eliot resident teams with Sierra Club to fight Schiller Station – “It was through researching community health concerns that Kimberly Richards of Pine Avenue came across decades-long concerns surrounding Schiller Station in Portsmouth, N.H. “I learned that the sulfur dioxide emissions being put into the air by the plant could be causing conditions like emphysema and asthma, or making them worse,” she said. Richards is now joining forces with the Sierra Club in hopes of opening a new chapter in the fight to curb emissions at the controversial plant. Schiller Station has been operating since 1949 and is currently owned by Public Service of New Hampshire, a subsidiary of the Northeast Utilities System.” SeacoastOnline.com

PSNH predicts need for rate hike – “Public Service of New Hampshire is predicting it will ask the Public Utilities Commission to increase what are already the state’s highest energy service rates. “At this time, we may be higher than other utilities,” company spokesman Martin Murray said. “Most of the reason for that is government mandates that PSNH customers pay that other utilities do not.” “ New Hampshire Union-Leader

Solid increase in monthly homes sales reported again in N.H. – “Two newly released reports both show that New Hampshire residential home sales continued to rise in August, but they differ on whether median price is the same as or lower than last year.” New Hampshire Business Review

Brookline man gets house back from foreclosure after fighting bank – “One Brookline family is pretty happy that this time the little guy won.Ray Lavoie, a self-employed carpenter whose home was sold at auction this summer, is breathing easier after Bank of America agreed to reverse the sale and modify his mortgage under the terms of a billion-dollar Department of Justice mortgage settlement, allowing Lavoie, his wife and their two daughters to stay.” Nashua Telegraph