No, not at all. In the past year, they attempted to shut down one of last remaining paper mills that is keeping the beleaguered forestry industry alive by ordering the removal of a dam that alteady had had a fish ladder installed at great cost, because it might possibly still impact the spawning of a miniscule subpopulation of salmon.

There's been enormous conflict about simply building a high voltage transmission line across the boondocks of the western mountains to bring cheap green power down from the Quebec Hydro dams.

So it sounds like the arguments about local extraction of coal/metals/petroleum are moot for this locality, since extraction isn't taking place there.

> There's been enormous conflict about simply building a high voltage transmission line

There might be less conflict if that line wasn't solely for the benefit of Massachusetts.