contributed by Matt Ralstonhttps://mattralston.net/politics/aurora-energy/
When I started writing this article I was seeking the answer to a simple question: Why doesn’t the Chena River, in my hometown of Fairbanks Alaska, not freeze downriver from the Chena Power Plant when the temperature is 50 degrees below zero? The short answer is that the plant is permitted by the State of Alaska to pump 14,000 gallons per minute, 20,000,000 gallons per day, of warm water discharge into that narrow river. That’s thirty Olympic sized swimming pools each day. And they’re doing a lot worse than that, and they lie about it, and it doesn’t matter because nobody’s watching.