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, …