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October 20, 2008
Environazis: Nuclear Power Oppresses Baby Fish
Moonbats oppose all efficient means of generating the energy we need to survive, and nuclear power is no exception. The latest line of attack: nuclear power plants are hurtful to baby fish. Have a hanky ready…
For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or a baby salmon in San Francisco Bay, drifting a little too close to a power plant can mean a quick and turbulent death.
Sucked in with enormous volumes of water, battered against the sides of pipes and heated by steam, the small fry of the aquatic world are being sacrificed in large numbers each year to the cooling systems of power plants around the country. […]
The issue is affecting the debate over the future of a nuclear plant in the suburbs north of New York City, and the facilities and environmentalists are closely watching the outcome here to see how to proceed in other cities around the country. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this term in a lawsuit related to the matter.
That would be the same Supreme Court that last year declared CO2 — i.e., our very breath — to be a pollutant subject to government regulation.
An immediate goal of enviroluddites is to force the Indian Point nuclear plant north of NYC to spend $1.5 billion on special cooling towers to protect fish eggs, which they apparently hope will drive the plant out of business.
Given the political tides these days, environmentalists may well achieve their ultimate goal of reducing Americans to a Third World lifestyle by making energy prohibitively expensive. Anyone who has been to India can testify as to how much good that will do the environment.
On a tip from Murff.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 20, 2008 7:12 AM
Comments
Sorry NYC! You are surrounded by OTHER cities that are also desperate for clean cheap electricity. You can't just bring it in from another state, like LA does from Arizona. Upstate NY doesn't want your power lines bringing in electricity from Canada. You won't tolerate a coal plant, and oil is way too expensive. You shut down Shoreham before it could generate any electricity for you, and Boston effectively shutdown the second Seabrook unit. Now you have no options. You already have some of the highest electric bills in the country. What would happen if you shut down Indian Point?
Posted by: Nancy at October 20, 2008 8:34 AM
I hope Barry gets elected. I am so ready for vicarious revenge on the American public for their absolute stupidity. When the lights go out up here in the People's Republic of Minnesota for all the same reasons in the article, I'm just going to punch the start button on my generator and laugh my butt off.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at October 20, 2008 9:10 AM
Poor little fishies. On a related note, I was in the Navy for the better part of a decade, and I spent months on end confined under water in very close proximity to a nuclear reactor. Whats the point? My little fishies are swimmin' just fine!
lol
Posted by: theQUICK at October 20, 2008 10:35 AM
I read of a case a few years ago where some idiot judge ordered a man to take down a fence on HIS OWN PROPERTY becuase it would cuase stress to rattlesnakes JUST HOW STUPID IS THE JUDGE AND THE ECO-FREAKS i mean some eco-nazis are demanding that citiess and towns shut off their street lights becuase their harming the bugs or here in kalifornia along the coast wildlife agents were suggesting that speed limits along the a highway be lowred to 10 mph to protect the bugs GREEN STUPIDIDY THEIR MORE INTELLEGENCE IN A FLY,ANT OR TURKEY AND A SPURWING PLOVER LIKE ME SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 20, 2008 11:33 AM
An immediate goal of enviroluddites is to force the Indian Point nuclear plant north of NYC to spend $1.5 billion on special cooling towers to protect fish eggs, which they apparently hope will drive the plant out of business.
There was once a time when the courts were used to protect people and their property. If someone took a person or company to court they had to prove that harm had been done to a person or persons and/or their property. Back in more civilized times something like this never would have seen the light of day.
Posted by: Kevin R at October 20, 2008 12:01 PM
Re: on the environazis'--- Anyone who has do ANY winter/spring fishing on lakes/reservoirs that have power plants, the outflow channel is PRIME territory for catching, the warm water attracts and stimulates a STRONG spawning, hence: a LARGER population of fish, of all sizes, they are consistently more healthy, the aquatic plants grow year round in the vicinity,....OH yea!! a few get "sucked-in" in intake, fish-food on the way out...
And what about large reservoirs that release acre/ft of water thru gates that produce electricity............fish food downstream.......nature at its best.......These people are SOOOOOO clueless!!!!!???
Posted by: Ron at October 20, 2008 6:23 PM
The description of little fish getting sucked into a cooling system probably made more than a few moonbats cry. These are the same people who celebrate the fact that a human fetus can be killed almost at will.
Posted by: PabloD at October 20, 2008 6:53 PM
During the 1970's a nuclear plant just north of Nashville, TN (Hartzville, TN)was shut down after spending millions of dollars on construction because of the Snail Darter Fish. I always thought of that as the first stupid eco decision That I could remember
Posted by: GareyNash at October 20, 2008 7:21 PM
I love fish. They taste most excellent dipped in tartar sauce.
Posted by: Mioche at October 21, 2008 12:02 AM
Mioche makes an excellent suggestion, although I would prefer Lemon and Pepper or Blackened Seasoning. Don't these Lunar-Chiropterans realize that if the power plants don't kill the fish accidentally, there's going to be more of them for us to catch and eat intentionally?!? That people like Ron might enjoy an activity that involves being outdoors, enjoying life, where he might spend quiality time with his friends, or God forbid his children- and they might learn something outside of the state-sponsored edgeuhkashinnal system? How can they allow this?! They must leave those power plants open for production so that humans can't intentionally destroy those poor, delicious fishies...
Posted by: Murff at October 21, 2008 6:21 AM
In the KLAMATH BASIN up in SOUTHERN OREGON a few years ago some eco-freaks got the water cut off to the farmers over two trash fish PAIR OF SUCKER FISH and in another incedent some wildlife agents tried to obtain LYNX HAIRS to place on rubbing posts in COLORADO and OREGON its ovious that these green nazis will pull off anything to get what they want
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 21, 2008 7:05 AM

