Daily Hampshire Gazette: My Turn: Setting the record straight on flows and fish passage commitments

In March 2023, following a decade of scientific study, stakeholder engagement, collaboration and negotiation, FirstLight Power filed the “Flows and Fish Passage Settlement Agreement” as part of the relicensing of the Turners Falls Hydroelectric and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage projects. The agreement details proposed future operating conditions that will achieve a more natural river flow and measures to enhance fish passage and survival of protected, threatened and endangered species. It commits FirstLight to significant measures for upstream and downstream fish passage and sets ambitious performance goals for fish passage that we must meet.