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August 01, 2005
Favorite Place Hosts Major Northeast Polluter
[mood| 
concerned]
My favorite place for leisure and exercise activity in recent years has been the Cape Cod Canal. Imagine my dismay at discovering this very place plays host to one of our region's top three polluters. The Mirant Corporation's Cape Cod canal power station pumps out 1,680 lbs. of Carbon Dioxide per MegaWatt Hour (or per hour in laymen's terms). It is the third worst polluter in the entire northeast (that is Maryland to Maine)- right here on pristine Cape Cod. It is no wonder many of the children of Cape Cod suffer from asthma and other respiratory ailments. This kind of pollution is like living with a smoker 24 hrs a day, and we catch much more here than just what the canal plant pumps into our air. It is time to find someplace else to enjoy my leisure time (like indoors?). A good argument for clean energy producers? You bet!
Posted by capecodcyclist at August 1, 2005 06:21 AM
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