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By Opinion Feb 11 2023 On Jan. 12, Vince Yearick, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Division of Hydropower Licensing, gave a fat new gift to FirstLight Power for its Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station in Massachusetts, which is parent-owned by Canadian venture capital giant PSP Investments. His decision allows FirstLight to continue its deadly, …

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In Northfield, Massachusetts,  FirstLight Power operates a “pumped storage station” – a giant operation suctioning water out of this river and sending it up a mountain, where it then sits waiting to be released downhill, producing electricity when FirstLight can get a high price.   The water and millions of fish are pulled into the turbines, …

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