Hearings Focus on the Indian Point Plant’s Devastating Toll on Wildlife
For 40 years, Riverkeeper has been fighting to stop Indian Point and other industrial facilities from killing wildlife while using our river water for free. They are continuing that David-and-Goliath fight in Albany, as Riverkeeper argues that that Entergy’s hot-water discharges, its radioactive leaks, and its annual slaughter of 1 billion fish and other river life is flat-out illegal, and that the water permit it needs to continue operating should be denied.
Riverkeeper’s attorneys are outnumbered, and its resources and expert witnesses are stretched thin responding to roughly 100,000 pages of evidence submitted so far by Entergy—but they continue to point out serious flaws in the company’s case.
Entergy, in keeping with a tradition of running its plant on the cheap, playing games with science and using our river to subsidize its profits, wants to install massive cage-like structures throughout the Hudson in an unproven effort to reduce its massive fish kills, rather than invest in proven closed-cycle cooling technology to stop the slaughter.
Riverkeeper’s attorneys are outnumbered, and its resources and expert witnesses are stretched thin responding to roughly 100,000 pages of evidence submitted so far by Entergy—but they continue to point out serious flaws in the company’s case.
Entergy, in keeping with a tradition of running its plant on the cheap, playing games with science and using our river to subsidize its profits, wants to install massive cage-like structures throughout the Hudson in an unproven effort to reduce its massive fish kills, rather than invest in proven closed-cycle cooling technology to stop the slaughter.
- Get Informed: Read Riverkeeper attorney Mark Lucas’s statements in the Albany hearings by going to Riverkeeper.org
- Do Your Part! Support Riverkeeper’s legal team by making a donation to their Close Indian Point campaign.
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