This week's Economist contains a troubling article on the growth of coal as a fuel source by India and especially China. By 2050 the Chinese alone could be burning 8 billion tonnes of coal a year, and the Indians maybe 2 billion tonnes. It makes us wonder why we are spending so much angst and political capital trying to slow and eventually reverse the effects of climate change, due mainly to CO2 emissions from coal and oil burning. We are beginning to think it would be better, like Voltaire, to quietly cultivate our garden, and devote ourselves mainly to the mitigation of the inevitable warming of the planet by 3-4 degrees C, accompanied as it will surely be by catastrophic coastal flooding and other unpleasantness.
Could it be that the great cosmic experiment with big brains will prove to be a disaster? We fear so, and the GOP presidential field only cements this hypothesis in our mind.
Ned Pepper's Outrages
Showing posts with label Indian Point. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Point. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2012
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A billion dead fish
A BILLION DEAD FISH A YEAR
Another story in a long line of BP horror stories? No friends, this report in Wednesday's NYT reports that poorly performing cooling towers on Entergy Corp's Indian Point nuclear complex return water to the Hudson hot enough to kill upwards of ONE BILLION FISH, LARVAE AND EGGS A YEAR. And this has been going on for decades.
Now, Ned wonders when outraged citizens are going to take up their torches and pitchforks and demand that Entergy immediately cease paying its dividend until the fish massacres stop? When Entergy is forced to place billions of dollars in an escrow account to pay for the economic damage these kills have done to the fishing industry in the Hudson, which during the 19th century was enormous. Not just to commercial fishing, but also to sport fishing as well.
When the CEO of Entergy is forced to testify before a hostile Congress, eat crow and resign in disgrace?
Ned is, naturally, not holding his breath until these occurrences materialize.
But, he wonders, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Or, is it just BP?
And, without minimizing the loss of life to the GOM's majestic birds, Ned encourages his readers to remember that NOT ONE FISH taken from the GOM has shown signs of oil contamination. Not one.
What WILL the hysteriasphere make of this?
Another story in a long line of BP horror stories? No friends, this report in Wednesday's NYT reports that poorly performing cooling towers on Entergy Corp's Indian Point nuclear complex return water to the Hudson hot enough to kill upwards of ONE BILLION FISH, LARVAE AND EGGS A YEAR. And this has been going on for decades.
Now, Ned wonders when outraged citizens are going to take up their torches and pitchforks and demand that Entergy immediately cease paying its dividend until the fish massacres stop? When Entergy is forced to place billions of dollars in an escrow account to pay for the economic damage these kills have done to the fishing industry in the Hudson, which during the 19th century was enormous. Not just to commercial fishing, but also to sport fishing as well.
When the CEO of Entergy is forced to testify before a hostile Congress, eat crow and resign in disgrace?
Ned is, naturally, not holding his breath until these occurrences materialize.
But, he wonders, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Or, is it just BP?
And, without minimizing the loss of life to the GOM's majestic birds, Ned encourages his readers to remember that NOT ONE FISH taken from the GOM has shown signs of oil contamination. Not one.
What WILL the hysteriasphere make of this?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)