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Times Union
Aug 8 2010
The Indian Point nuclear power plant has been grabbing headlines again, this time because of its devastating impact on fish. But that plant is just one of 25 aging power plants in New York which are damaging the ecology of the state's rivers, lakes and estuaries. From the Great Lakes to the Hudson River to Long Island's shores, power plants built in the middle of last century, most of them fossil-fueled, withdraw billions of gallons of water every day using antiquated "once-through" cooling water intake systems. (New York ranks third highest among the 50 states with respect to power plant water withdrawal.) |
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