New special journal issue: Québec Hydropower for a Green Massachusetts?
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Eve Vogel
Nov 9, 2022, 8:01:05 AM11/9/22
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I am delighted to announce the publication of a special journal issue entitled "Québec Hydropower for a Green Massachusetts? Connections, contradictions and contests of electricity."
The issue connects Massachusetts' electricity demand and policies for decarbonization to biophysical changes and political fights in Québec and northern New England, where hydropower and transmission lines had and have to be built. There are also articles on the legacies of electric restructuring, and on the profound changes in economy, community and territory in a First Nations community. Overall the message of the papers is that diverse concerns of place and people need to be heard and recognized as part of the energy transition and as part of electric policies, institutions, and markets. The Introduction weaves together the contributions of the issue as a whole in both theoretical and practical terms.
The issue connects Massachusetts' electricity demand and policies for decarbonization to biophysical changes and political fights in Québec and northern New England, where hydropower and transmission lines had and have to be built. There are also articles on the legacies of electric restructuring, and on the profound changes in economy, community and territory in a First Nations community. Overall the message of the papers is that diverse concerns of place and people need to be heard and recognized as part of the energy transition and as part of electric policies, institutions, and markets. The Introduction weaves together the contributions of the issue as a whole in both theoretical and practical terms.
The special issue has been published in a regional journal that closely parallels the geography of the case study. However, the articles and Introduction are written to be broadly relevant to scholars in other regions and in interrelated fields. All of the articles are available for free downloads online at the website of The Northeastern Geographer or my Scholarworks website.
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Eve Vogel and Matt McCourt, special issue editors: "Québec Hydropower for a Green Massachusetts? Connections, contradictions and contests of electricity." The Northeastern Geographer Vol 12, 2020/21 (actual pub date 2022).
- Eve Vogel: Introduction to Special Issue: Quebec Hydropower for a Green Massachusetts? Connections, Contradictions, and Contests of Renewable Electricity
- Clara Silverstein and Molly Autery: Green Massachusetts? Carbon Reduction Goals and Strategies, and the Changing Role of Canadian Hydropower
- Eve Vogel: Legacies of Electric Restructuring for a New Electric Transition: Neoliberal Paths for Canadian Hydropower?
- Maddy Kroot: “New Hampshire Is Not Your Extension Cord”: Understanding Oppositions to Transmission Lines in Northern New England
- Josh Nolan and Alexandria Rinaldi: Canadian Electric Imports and New England’s Renewable Energy Transmission Dilemma: A Case Study of the Northern Pass’s Origins and Defeat in New Hampshire
- Paul Frederic: New England Clean Energy Connect: Electric Power Transmission Conflict in Maine
- Matt McCourt: Maine’s CMP Corridor as a “Paracommons”: The Spatial Politics of Gains and Harms Among Proprietors, Neighbors, Socioecological Systems and the Wider Economy
- Alexia Desmeules and Laurie Guimond: Damming the Unamen Shipu Romaine River: Contemporary Transformations of Territorialities Among the Innu of Ekuanitshit
Eve Vogel
UMass Amherst
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Matt McCourt
University of Maine Farmington
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