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Pilgrim nuclear power station seen as herring threat |
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In a letter sent Monday to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, the Jones River Watershed Association argued that federal agencies have not consulted with each other on the effects of the nuclear plant's operations on North Atlantic right whales, river herring and several other species, as required by law, and that a biological assessment of the plant's impacts was inadequate.
While the Kingston environmental group is not anti-nuclear per se, members have concerns about the effects of the plant drawing more than 500 million gallons of water each day from Cape Cod Bay for cooling, said Margaret Sheehan, an attorney who volunteers for the group. Read the complete story from Cape Cod Times.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
