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Excelerate originally proposed using 54 million gallons per day to cool the engines but has reduced that amount to 5 million gallons. Still, Pritchard said that could result in 16 million fish eggs and 2.5 million fish larvae being trapped and killed on screens covering the intake pipes every year, representing about 14,000 adult fish.
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im curious as to how they come up with these numbers..seems like a shot in the dark. what i don't get is that so many environmentalists would like to see marine protected areas, yet they fight this...
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The company said in its draft environmental report that both recreational and commericial fishing would be excluded from about 14 square miles during construction and about 3.9 square miles for the rest of the project's life because of safety concerns.
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besides that, the cape wind project talks about how the wind turbines will become sanctuarys for fish, creating whole new ecosystems along the base of the turbines, kind of like a reef. why wouldn't this system be based on the same theory??
lastly, im not really sure what some folks would have us do for energy. we can't drill for oil, we can't build these LNG ports, if we build windmills they are astheticlly displeasing. the coal burning powerplants are polluting the air, and nuclear plants are ALWAYS off the table. im not sure how we will ever cure our "addiction to foreign oil" if we can't at least try some of these fixes.
This is bad
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