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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (2895)	10/28/2005 4:05:19 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24231

There's a tidal generating plant in the Annapolis Basin near Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. i've stopped to visit there several times over the years. i guess there is some fish kill as the Cormorants like to sit on one side of the outlet areas and frequently dive in to the current, so i guess they're getting fish that have gone through. i guess that sedimentation is also an issue. i haven't read up a lot on this, so can't comment too much, but this has been one of the arguments that i've seen against building more tidal plants in the other major basins of the Bay of Fundy. a lot of people are worried about what might happen to the fisheries, wildlife, etc... btw, the Annapolis generator had to be kept turned off for about a month about 2 years ago, because a young Humpback whale got into the basin and couldn't get out again. He kept swimming around and they tried to chase him through, but he managed to escape repeatedly for several weeks and stayed upstream in the river above the generator. The ended up using the month to do maintenance on the generator and finally did get the whale to go back out to sea. (imo, probably only in Canada would they shut down a generating plant for a month while trying to keep a whale from being injured or killed). (-: ~croc