The ecologically sound thing would be to cool the power plant water
more before it is discharged so the manatees would resume their
natural migration patterns but that is blasphemy to the huggers. In
fact they sued the PoCo, forcing them to artificially heat the
discharge water for the manatees when we replaced the bunker oil plant
with a more efficient natural gas plant. So much for that extra
efficiency.
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Not only so but raising the cost to the consumer to keep them hanging around.

As a publicly regulated utility doesn't this foolishness have to come to a vote first?