THE CONNECTICUT RIVER IS IN TROUBLE.  FirstLight’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station is the deadliest machine on the Connecticut River. It KILLS year-round.

Northfield suctions the Connecticut River backward and uphill at a rate of 15,000 cubic feet per second.

That is the equivalent of the aquatic life in eight three bedroom homes-sucked in, every second, for hours on end.  

From eggs, to larvae, to juvenile and adult fish, there is no expectation of survival for anything pulled through Northfield's massive turbines. The term for that killing is (fish) entrainment "fish and all aquatic life being transported along the flow of water and OUT of their NORMAL habitat into unnatural or harmful environments."

On top of this waste of life Northfield Pump Storage Station uses fossil fuels to operate. Although it claims to be green because it produces hydroelectricity when the water from the reservoir is released; it is not "green" energy and contributes to the Climate Emergency.  

FirstLight  is currently seeking to renew its "license to kill" for another 50 years of destroying the river. This is in direct violation of an 1872 landmark US Supreme Court decision and in contradiction to the century later Federal Clean Water Act (CWA 1972).

Please sign the petition below to be a voice for the river and say NO to dirty green energy and huge corporate profits.  

LIVING WATERS FLOW DOWNSTREAM!