I am writing to object to the relicensing of the FirstLight pumped storage project in Northfield.

I feel this license should be denied due to the fact that this project disrupts the natural flow of the Connecticut River and is damaging to the ecosystem for miles downstream.

I regularly walk and paddle the river below this project, and am disturbed, as I am sure many many living creatures are, by the constant fluctuations of water levels and flow rate on the river. The river even runs in reverse at times. This is shameful and destructive.

The FirstLight project is a net consumer of electrical power from the grid, despite the misleading statements of FirstLight that this is a clean energy facility.

It is high time we reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and energy consumption generally, and this project violates both of these priorities.

We must put an end to this wasteful and destructive pumped storage facility by denying its relicensure.

Robert Cress Catlin

Greenfield