Posted on 03/02/2010 10:08:23 AM PST by BlueDragon
State water board regulators are mulling a plan to stop power companies from vacuuming the ocean for water to cool their machinery.
Environmentalists said the practice destroys too much sea life, while utility advocates said the impact is minimal. Banning the practice would cost too much, jeopardize the reliability of the electricity grid and slow the state's transition to clean energy, supporters of the practice said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
Title of print article as in heading. Title of article from web page = "Calif. may ban cos. from using ocean as coolant".
For other related background, see http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2007/July/Day-09/w13202.htm entitled;
Is that as clear as mud for everyone? good.
The applicable laws (which can be found at places other than the few links provided here) rulings, EPA statements, etc., seem to not only leave wiggle room (no fishy pun intended) but practically beg for enviro activists to continue pressure.
The enviro wackos want us to live in trees....
Everyone knows that sea life luxuriously thrives at the warm water output of these plants.
Californicide continues.
Yep, our local plant built a viewing area so people could go see the manatees who live in the warm water during the winter. It’s a real treat!
Simple, Ban the enviro Whacks they are useless and a enemy.
Green, it's the new RED!
Less than a one degree Farenheit change, even for a place like Diablo Canyon or San Onofre. What idiots.
IDIOTS TO THE MAX.
Sheesh.
These people must be insane.
They are destroying California bit by bit. I hope they are happy with what they create because in the end it will not be pretty.
No, Mr. Dallas59, they expect you to die....
Vacuming water? Oh please, they act like the power plant employees are dragging a hose across the bottom of the ocean to do as much damage as possible. Environ Wakos take note, it is an intake pipe that has screen across it.
The enviro-wackos don’t want us to live at all. To para phrase a famous exchange from the movie Goldfinger;
Bond, “I suppose you expect to be environmentally responsible?” Goldfinger, “No Mister Bond I expect you to die.” “But of course I only want you to die so we can save all the little furry creatures and beautiful sea life and ......”
“Vacuuming”? that’s pretty misleading right there.
The other week I was down in Tampa Bay and went to see the poewrplant where tons of manatees and rays gather to bask in the warmer water there. They even have observation decks set up.
I made sure to say - in an easily overhearable voice when we were leaving “ I guess in a green utopia these guys could just go shiver”. :)
Hey, is that just south of Tampa Bay?
They believe that nothing that man does is capable of benefiting the environment. They are anti-human, and they are incapable of understanding how some of our constructs actually help wildlife by providing things, such as warmth, that were not there prior.
These people should be isolated, humiliated, and then run out of town Alynski style.
But they get to live to make sure everyone else is dead....
“it is an intake pipe that has screen across it”
Yup. Ships use water for cooling too. Maybe we should stop shipping too.
Yes. The Big Bend plant at Apollo Beach. Have you been?
The “Environmentalists” have always had subversive purposes. The tree huggers get along much better with birch bark than with mankind. It is a serious personality disorder.
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