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By KARL MEYER

 On July 31, I watched from the Turners Falls bridge as a teen stood over an isolated pool in an emptied riverbed, 30 feet from FirstLight’s stoppered dam. He clutched a bent rod with something on his line. I had an idea what it might be. The Recorder...

By KARL MEYER

 The women were there first. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s likely been that way throughout history. Those were the people I found quietly holding signs on the village green on a Saturday some 20 years back. They’d been there for weeks —...

By KARL MEYER

 I read FirstLight VP John Howard’s April 5 My Turn as a victory lap for a now 12 year-old Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing bid for its river operations [“More public input sought in new phase of FirstLight relicensing”]. He touted the...

By KARL MEYER

 Recently the Recorder ran a front-page story titled “Dial ‘A’ for anachronism: Landlines languish in US” [Feb. 27]. It left me feeling exposed, outed. You see, I have a landline. I’ve never had a cellphone. The article implied I’m old school, old, an...

By KARL MEYER

I’m currently a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recognized “intervener” requesting denial of a new operating license for FirstLight Power’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project. Since 1973, its pumping has waged a grim war on the...

By KARL MEYER

For the first season since 2010, the Connecticut River in Massachusetts has come back to life.FirstLight Power’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station shut down just as summer ended. For a brief season, the disastrously broken river ecosystem in...

By KARL MEYER

I belatedly read FirstLight Power vice president of operations John Howard’s lengthy May 31 column after returning from vacation [“Setting the record straight on flows and fish passage commitments”]. After years of public information lockdown via...

By KARL MEYER

On Jan. 12, 2023, Vince Yearick, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Division of Hydropower Licensing, gave a new fat gift to FirstLight Power for its Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station in Massachusetts. Parent-owned...