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Gas pipeline builder suspends work on Mass. project

Gas pipeline builder suspends work on Mass. project

State House News Service

BOSTON – Kinder Morgan suspended further work and spending on its Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline project Wednesday, citing inadequate commitments from prospective customers. The line would help Massachusetts and New England meet energy needs but has been met by protests and uncooperative landowners across the state.

Less than a year ago, in July 2015, the company's directors authorized its Tennessee Gas Pipeline unit to pursue the $3.3 billion project to run a pipeline from Wright, New York, across Western Massachusetts and into New Hampshire just east of the Connecticut River, coming back into the Bay State in Dracut, near Lowell. On Wednesday, Kinder Morgan said that approval was based on contractual commitments at the time and expected to sign up more customers from gas and electricity distribution companies and other "market participants" in New England.

Massachusetts students resist politically correct campus culture
Harvard University

Massachusetts students resist politically correct campus culture

Kara Bettis

CAMBRIDGE – While universities nationwide have made headlines for their crackdown on "microaggressions" and their creation of "safe spaces" away from offensive conversation, some Massachusetts college students think their peers are being overly sensitive.

Harvard University sophomore Rachel Huebner, an editorial writer for the Crimson student newspaper, recently penned a column against this "culture of sensitivity."

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