Fishermen, oyster farmers fear power-generating ship will kill business

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A floating gas-turbine generator meant to alleviate South Africa's crippling power cuts has run into objections by oyster farmers and small-scale fishermen, who fear the environmental damage will destroy their livelihoods.

A few minutes from the slipway, multicoloured buoys and floating black rafts help pinpoint different farm locations, as workers pull up long lines of clinging mussels or exotic oysters fattened in the nutrient-rich waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ruck is worried that hot water discharge from the Karpowership vessel may stimulate harmful algae blooms that could render his succulent oysters inedible. In February, scientists warned that industrial noise beneath the ocean surface was disrupting marine animals' ability to mate, feed and even evade predators.

 

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Tickling my common sense. Why would we have secondhand power stations floating in harbours for 20 years, pumping gas to them, transmission powerlines to land, maintaing ships in ocean water and where will they house administration and workers? Using ship gangways for logistics?

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