Guest columnist Karl Meyer: Earth Day and a river license to kill
Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project upper reservoir. Recorder file photo
Published: 4/20/2021 1:34:51 PM
Fifty-one years after the first Earth Day, the four-state Connecticut River remains prisoner to an ecosystem-crippling license the Federal Power Commission issued in Massachusetts for the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project in 1968.
Finished in 1972 and built to run off the massive overproduction of electricity from the new Vermont Yankee nuclear plant NMPS began sucking up huge, hourslong inhalations of the Connecticut’s flow. Everything pulled into its giant tunnels perished, from tiny fish eggs to 3-foot American eels. It would be decades before a hint of the scale of its annual carnage would be understood.
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WASHINGTON, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In advance of Earth Day, the Walton Family Foundation today announced a new initiative aimed at strengthening the field of environmental journalism. #HeresWhy seeks to explore the challenges facing environmental journalism, expand the audience for environmental news, and determine what role philanthropy can play in bolstering the field. Quality journalism is critical to having an informed public who can hold decision-makers accountable on many different issues, including public health, the economy, and racial justice. The health of the environment is intimately connected to all of these issues, explains Moira Mcdonald, director of the Walton Family Foundation Environment Program. With so much environmental