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By KARL MEYER

On Oct. 10, Tim Jones, acting director of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Waterways and Wetlands, presided over an “information” session in Turners Falls to field a skeptical public’s questions about its 401 Water...

By KARL MEYER

 On July 31, I watched from the Turners Falls bridge as a teen stood over an isolated pool in an emptied riverbed, 30 feet from FirstLight’s stoppered dam. He clutched a bent rod with something on his line. I had an idea what it might be. The Recorder...

By KARL MEYER

 The women were there first. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s likely been that way throughout history. Those were the people I found quietly holding signs on the village green on a Saturday some 20 years back. They’d been there for weeks —...

By KARL MEYER

 I read FirstLight VP John Howard’s April 5 My Turn as a victory lap for a now 12 year-old Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing bid for its river operations [“More public input sought in new phase of FirstLight relicensing”]. He touted the...

By KARL MEYER

 Recently the Recorder ran a front-page story titled “Dial ‘A’ for anachronism: Landlines languish in US” [Feb. 27]. It left me feeling exposed, outed. You see, I have a landline. I’ve never had a cellphone. The article implied I’m old school, old, an...

By KARL MEYER

I’m currently a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recognized “intervener” requesting denial of a new operating license for FirstLight Power’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project. Since 1973, its pumping has waged a grim war on the...