On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:57:07 -0700 (PDT), True North
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:50:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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12:46
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:05:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 9:22:58 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 18:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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Not really, this is more like wild hogs tearing up your garden. They
rip every shred every living thing off the bottom. Bye bye to
everything that lives in that grass

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Man, that sucks. Doesn't sound so "Eco-friendly"

Hmmm

"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."

1:49 PM



That does sound silly but now that you Florida boys have conditioned the poor creatures to expect warm comfy water you can't just pull the rug out from under them.
Maybe lowering the water a degree of two per year over a ten year period might solve the problem.

It is not likely to happen. The manatee huggers have convinced the
world that manatees are a native species here, with fossils dating
back thousands of years, in spite of the fact that the power plant has
only been here 58 years and they could not survive in the winter
without it. All we really know is they may have migrated in and out
but it is clear they were never supposed to be here year round. I also
doubt this area ever supported the population we have now, even in the
summer.