Gothamist: Indian Point Power Plant is a Fish-Killing Plant

mattalexto

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:53:08 -0500

dead fish, big deal, up here in Canada we've got to deal with two-mouthed fish. Easier to catch, sure, but I wouldn't want to swim with one! http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/21/fish-with-two-mouths.html

TSOL

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:59 -0500

Let's get it over with and move back into caves now.

Politburo

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:12:37 -0500

I'm a bit confused. The "low estimate" is 900,000 fish per year. That's 2,500 fish a day, about 1.75 fish a minute. If the fish are coming in, they've got to go somewhere. Where? Where are the 900,000 fish? Or the 1.2 billion that some claim? What's likely happening is that they're blurring the lines. There are probably millions of fish eggs sucked into the system. But people don't care about fish eggs, so they've got to get "creative".

glennQNYC

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:51:59 -0500

Maybe the environmental impact of a coal burning power source would be better? Maybe we can pave over Long Island and turn it into a giant solar & wind farm? Fools.

JoeSchumacher

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:30:49 -0500

The cooling system that is killing the fish is in place because dumping heated water into the river killed just as many fish decades ago. Concern over the harm that the Indian Point nuclear plants did to the Hudson ecosystem was one of the reasons for the formation of the Riverkeeper organization.

maevro

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:10:54 -0500

My Avatar! See, when you put cute Simpson's with bad environmental mishaps, they don't seem so bad!

Jen Chung

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:53:38 -0500

I appreciate that, DarkGemini.

DarkGemini

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:50:17 -0500

Just in case you were going to rehash that story, too. Here to help. :)

DarkGemini

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:49:25 -0500

Are we playing Madlibs? Do you need a verb? lol. In other news, 1993 called, it wants its news article back. (growing up in Yonkers, this was hashed out over and over and over again every year in science class or Hudson River Conservation class or whatever they called it that week.) By the way, GE dumped millions of tons of PCB's in the river from the 1970's until the mid-1990's or so, the vast majority of which remain there to this day poisoning the ecosystem. I'd stay away from Hudson River catches for... well, a few more generations or so.

zpk

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:35:29 -0500

"The Department of Environmental Conservation says the Indian Point nuclear plant hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of fish and eggs each year." Are we playing Madlibs? Do you need a verb?