Connecticut River Defenders Present: A Public HearingSaturday November 18, 2023, 3:00-5:00 pmShea Theater, 71 Avenue A, Great Falls MA 01376 Join with others from our community to hear testimony about the way the rights of nature with respect to the Connecticut River are being violated. We will hear from some of those most knowledgeable about …
By SUSAN OLMSTED Published: 4/29/2021 1:17:13 PM After reading Alicia Barton’s (CEO of FirstLight Power Resources) My Turn column (April 23) promoting the Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage (NMPHS) Station as “an asset in fight against climate change” and “… the largest clean power producer in New England …” I felt compelled to write. NMPHS …
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The Connecticut River Defenders Rally to Stop the Destruction by First Light EnergyOn a beautiful warm and sunny day, some 60 people gathered at a rally called by the Connecticut River Defenders at Northfield Mountain Park adjacent to the First Light Energy Corporation Pump Station to learn about the destruction of the River and its …
3/10/23 Karl Meyer Opinion, Commonwealth Magazine ON FEBRUARY 11, CommonWealth published a commentary by FirstLight Power CEO Alicia Barton bragging of the Christmas Eve grid-rescuing heroics of her company’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station. She went on to describe Northfield as a “zero-emissions” power plant that helped save New England from a natural gas energy squeeze. There were holes …
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4/12/23 Karl Meyer, Letter to the Editor – Vermont Digger In 2016,Canadian capital giant PSP Investments bought three FirstLight Power-branded properties on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, two years before their federal licenses would expire. They quickly transferred them into Delaware tax shelters. Facing no pressure, they dragged out relicensing procedures five more years, knowing …
Published in the Greenfield Recorder on November 9, 2022. Living rivers flow downstream, but not the Connecticut River in Franklin County where FirstLight’s 50-year-old Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station reverses miles of flow at times. NMPS is the deadliest machine ever installed on New England’s Great River. It sucks in endless streams of the Connecticut’s …
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, …