Written by Michael Moran on July 21, 2010 – 5:27 am
“The New York metro area will have dirtier air, higher energy prices and thousands more unemployed workers if the state insists on cooling towers for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, speakers said Tuesday,” reports Jim Fitzgerald of The Associated Press.
“Testimony at a public hearing a few miles from the plant was overwhelmingly critical of a state ruling that said Indian Point has been devastating the Hudson River ecosystem through its use of up to 2.5 billion gallons of river water per day to make steam and cool its reactors.
Screens keep out most full-grown fish. But baby fish, fish eggs and other small life forms are sucked in and killed. Some of the fish that hit the screens also die or are injured.
“I feel sorry for the fish, I really do,” said Jerry Gershner, a real estate agent from Ossining who predicted higher taxes and other living costs. “But the person that I most feel sorry for is me, my family and my neighbors.”