"All 1.8 million Massachusetts customers of electricity and gas utility Eversource Energy were affected by a recent data breach that is part of a worldwide hack that has hit hundreds of companies and millions of people. The Eversource customers had their name, address, contact information and Eversource account and usage information taken"
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/08/29/every-eversource-customer-in-the-state-is-exposed-by-data-breach-but-solar-program-is-hit-the-worst/
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#Eversource #MOVEit #databreach #clop #ransomware #cryptocurrency

From such baby steps is our progress made:

#NewEngland's largest energy utility, #Eversource, has parted ways with the #AmericanGasAssociation — a powerful industry group that environmentalists say has been instrumental in blocking efforts to address #climatechange around the country.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/08/eversource-american-gas-association-aga-decarbonization-cliamte-preemption-natural-gas

#climatecrisis #gas #environment #environmentalists

Until today there has been no official acknowledgment by the #CityOfNewtonMA that the gas company, #NationalGrid, and it’s leaking pipes in close proximity to underground high voltage #Eversource electric infrastructure, could have any causal relationship to the #WalnutStreetGasExplosions

Map of 13.8 kV underground Eversource cables. Black line indicates connectivity across 2.3 miles between the 3 locations initially implicated by #Eversource in the #WalnutStreetGasExplosions
https://eversource.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7b13d31f908243e49406f198b359aa71

Places initially said (then retracted w/out explanation) by #Eversource to be part of the causal chain associated w 4/6/23 #WalnutStreetGasExplosions:

Top: 79 Walnut St., next to Newton Education Ctr.
2.3 miles from 2023 explosion site.

Middle: 374 Homer St., location of 2022 injury explosion, coinciding with a documented live superemitter gas leak, and found to be grade 1 explosive yesterday.
0.8 miles from ‘23 explosion site.

Bottom: Walnut St. x Lakewood Rd., site of explosions of 4/6/23.

I found an explosive level of gas (6%) this evening in an #Eversource electric utility hole, fed by a leaking 12” cast iron #NationalGrid gas main.

This is at the same location as a June 20, 2022 explosion which injured a worker, at an #Eversource substation.

This substation was initially implicated in the 4/6/23 #WalnutStreetGasExplosion causal chain.

This is directly across from #CityOfNewtonMA City Hall, next to the #NewtonFreeLibrary, parking lot on Homer Street.

I found an explosive level of gas (6%) this evening in an #Eversource electric utility hole, fed by a leaking 12” cast iron #NationalGrid gas main.

This is at the same location as a June 20, 2022 explosion which injured a worker, in front of an #Eversource substation.

This substation was initially implicated in the 4/6/23 #WalnutStreetGasExplosion causal chain.

This is directly across from #CityOfNewtonMA City Hall, next to the #NewtonFreeLibrary, parking lot on Homer Street.

I found an explosive level of gas (6%) this evening in an #Eversource electric utility hole, fed by a leaking 12” cast iron #NationalGrid gas main.

This is at the same location as a June 20, 2022 utility hole explosion which injured a worker, in front of an #Eversource substation.

This substation was initially implicated in the 4/6/23 #WalnutStreetGasExplosion causal chain.

This is directly across from #CityOfNewtonMA City Hall, next to the #NewtonFreeLibrary, parking lot on Homer Street.

Since I had already called 911 once over weekend and nothing was apparently done to remedy the situation by #NationalGrid, this time I called #Eversource to say there was a strong odor of gas in its Eversource utility hole. Tellingly, the person told me this was a #NationalGrid gas issue and transferred me directly to #NationalGrid. The call record exists and demonstrates both utilities know that there is a problem with #NationalGrid gas leaking into #Eversource high voltage electric infra.

Yesterday, in front of the Newton Education Center, 100 Walnut Street, #CityOfNewtonMA, where #Eversource said then retracted, that the April 6, #WalnutStreetGasExplosion was triggered, I found #NationalGrid gas leaking into an #Eversource utility hole (toward middle of the street) near the flooded storm drain in foreground. Gas was steady at 6,000 ppm (3000x ambient). On a prior visit it exceeded 10,000 ppm.

Any gas leaking into high voltage buried electric infrastructure = unacceptable risk.

#NationalGrid gas continues to leak into #Eversource high voltage infrastructure underground confined space. Photo taken minutes ago, at 960 Walnut Street, near the repeatedly unsuccessfully repaired Grade 1 hazardous leak. I called NGrid. #DPUInvestigation #WalnutStreetExplosion

The #NewtonFD incident record will show they called #NGrid even though the gas is in an #Eversource electric utility hole. That will demonstrate that they know the source of the gas in the high voltage electric infrastructure. #DPUInvestigation #WalnutStreetGasExplosion

Called 911. 0.30% gas sustained in #Eversource confined space above 13.8kV electric line next to leaking gas mains. #DPUInvestigation #WalnutStreetGasExplosion

thanks we hate it #eversource
#noeastiesubstation #wbur #eastboston

this scam just keeps getting worse

" Last June, advocates asked Eversource during a state hearing who would pay for the [$1.4 million] community benefits agreement. The company responded in a written statement: “Ratepayers.” "

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/13/east-boston-eversource-substation-agreement-electricity-rates

Neversource with Eversource! Their only interest is in fact their profits and not the community, case in point, we don't need it and don't want it. This is not what a public utility should look like #NoEastieSubstation #Eversource #Neversource
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/13/east-boston-eversource-substation-agreement-electricity-rates

Think about it: #Eversource is saying *it* knows what is best for a community, not the community itself. This is the height of monopolistic arrogance and contempt.

Here’s #Eversource asserting that it knows what’s best for the local EJ community, not the locals themselves. Eversource paid off MA state officials to waive 14 local permits to approve construction.

activists arrested protesting the #eversource #substation

Call Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey now and demand that #eastboston get the protection we deserve from this reckless profit-motivated project

#EastBoston #bospoli #mapoli #NoEastieSubstation

The winter energy crunch, what it costs, and what it will take to fix it
Author: Jan Ellen Spiegel

https://ctmirror.org/2023/01/03/ct-energy-winter-shortage-natural-gas/

#Energy&Environment #AcadiaCenter #ClimateChange #CTMirrorMobileApp #DEEP #energy #Eversource #featurestory #FERC #ISONewEngland #LNG #topstory

OP-ED | A To-Do List for the 2023 Legislative Session
Author: Susan Bigelow

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/01/03/op-ed-a-to-do-list-for-the-2023-legislative-session/

#ClimateChange #Electricity #Energy #Energy&Environment #Environment #HealthCare #Opinion #PublicTransit #Transportation #Utilities #400pTuesday #climatechange #electricity #Eversource #Extra #healthcare #healthcareworkers #publictransit #publicutilities #Session2023 #stnpromo #SusanBigelow #UnitedIlluminating