Photo of Connecticut River Defenders Rally, May 27, 2023
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CURRENT/UPCOMING EVENTS & ACTIONS:
PAST EVENTS & ACTIONS:
Comments on FERC's Draft Environmental Impact Statement - July & August, 2025
We submitted comments on FERC's draft Environmental Impact Statement! Almost 90 people signed a letter in support of our comments that we also submitted to FERC!
Click here Letter to FERC to read our comments on FERC's draft EIS.
Click here Letter of Support to read the letter of support for our comments.
Thanks to all who signed the letter of support!
Come join us at these February events!
Saturday, February 8 from 1-4pm
Comments on the CT River Sturgeon, December 2024
We sent letters to MassDEP and FERC pressing them to take adequate steps to protect endangered Shortnose Sturgeon living in the Connecticut River!
Click HERE to read our letter to MassDEP.
Click HERE to read our letter to FERC.
Thanks to all who signed the MassDEP letter!
The 2024 Pocumtuck Homelands Festival on August 3rd & 4th!
Sarah tabling at the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival on Saturday, August 3, 2024.
Comments to MassDEP on FirstLight's Application for a Water Quality Certificate!
THANK YOU to all who signed the comments!!
Here are the comments we submitted to MassDEP
Comments on FirstLight's License Applications for Turners Dam and Northfield Facility!
Many people submitted comments to FERC - THANK YOU to all who submitted comments!!
Here are the comments we submitted - WMRoN comments to FERC on the relicensing application
Rights of Nature Presentation
February 23d, 2024 7-9 pm
Greenfield Community College Dining Commons
College Drive, Greenfield
Full Snow Moon Gathering and Eastern Woodlands Social Dance
February 24th, 2024 1-4 pm
Greenfield Community College Dining Commons
College Drive, Greenfield
Both of the above events were co-sponsored by The Nolumbeka Project and Western Mass Rights of Nature!
Listen to our podcast on Rights of Nature with David Brule from Nolumbeka Project on WHMP:
Panorama — Episode 77 — Western Massachusetts Rights of Nature | WHMP 101.5 / 1400 AM
Comments on the Energy Storage Study, September 2023
In September we submitted comments to the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) on the MA energy storage study, urging DOER not to incentivize expansion of industrial hydropower facilities such as Northfield!
The letter had 38 signatures - many thanks to all who signed!!
Tabling at the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, August, 2023
It was an amazing event -- and we'll be there again in 2024!
Protest at the Northfield Pump Storage Station, May 2023
We protested the relicensing of the Northfield Pump Storage station at the Connecticut River Defenders rally in Northfield MA. You can read the full text of Sarah Mathews' presentation at the rally about the Rights of Nature where they were published in the Amherst Indy, and you can see a short selection from her presentation in the video below!
We protested the relicensing of the Northfield Pump Storage station at the Connecticut River Defenders rally in Northfield MA. You can read the full text of Sarah Mathews' presentation at the rally about the Rights of Nature where they were published in the Amherst Indy, and you can see a short selection from her presentation in the video below!
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