When I first read articles last year regarding Great Lakes fish kills from water intakes, I was intrigued at the way that energy producers are even able to get away with permits to do this. Do they have permits or is it just being done and they “suffer” through paying the fines? Either way this is perverse. Save Maumee stands by our words – More Oversite – FINES for illegal activity – Action FIRST, then study and show measurable results!
Sandy Bihn RiverKeeper said it best in this article…
“Fish are important to Ohio’s economy, providing an estimated 10,000 jobs and $800 billion in economic activity.”
She said fishermen “would pay thousands in fines and serve jail time if they did what Bay Shore does each and every day.”
How many people do you think 60 million fish per year would feed? That is how many fish are being destroyed by FirstEnergy Corps.- please write your legislator – find them here…
http://www.in.gov/apps/sos/legislator/search/
FirstEnergy to install devices to divert fish
Goal is reduction of kills at Bay Shore
The numbers are staggering: 60 million fish – 46 million of them adults – are killed each year by the powerful intake of FirstEnergy Corp.’s coal-fired Bay Shore power plant in Oregon.
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