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Speaker 1: Governor Healy hosted Quebec officials at the state House to

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Speaker 1: announce that hydro power from the Canadian province is now

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Speaker 1: being transmitted to Massachusetts along lines running through the state

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Speaker 1: of Maine.

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Speaker 2: As these transmission lines are going up, costs are going

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Speaker 2: to be coming down. This project alone, I'll tell you,

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Speaker 2: is going to lower energy electricity bills by fifty million

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Speaker 2: dollars every single year.

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Speaker 1: The projected savings to consumers three billion dollars over the

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Speaker 1: next twenty years.

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Speaker 2: This power is clean, consistent, and affordable. We've locked this

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Speaker 2: power in at an affordable price for the next twenty

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Speaker 2: years and will be getting powered cheaper than we could

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Speaker 2: on the market.

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Speaker 1: Hydro power considered a clean energy that will reduce carbon

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Speaker 1: emissions the equivalent of removing seven hundred thousand cars from

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Speaker 1: the road. At the State House, Mike Macklin WZ Boston's

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