The Effects of the Proposed Tidal Hydroelectric Project in the Bay of Fundy: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, July 25, 1983, Augusta, Maine, Volume 4 |
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American shad assessment BAKER barrier Bay of Fundy beach Bigelow Laboratory biological boundary Canada Canadian changes in tidal coast of Maine coastal storm coastline Cobequid Bay Cobscook Bay Commission committee concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost Cumberland Basin damage economic electricity energy England environment environmental consequences environmental impacts erosion estuaries evaluate export Federal fish fisheries Fundy tidal power Greenberg model Gulf of Maine high tide high water important increase in tidal increased tidal Larsen LIBRARY OF CONGRESS marine Minas Basin Minas Basin project natural NEPOOL Nova Scotia numerical model oceanographic period Phase pollution potential predicted productivity proposed red tide region result salt marshes SCIPLE sea level rise Senator MITCHELL Shepody Bay significant studies tidal amplitude tidal currents Tidal Power Corporation tidal power development tidal power project tidal project tidal range tidal regime transboundary turbines United upper Bay utility water levels
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Page 236 - Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1.
Page 236 - ... applications for Presidential Permits for the construction, operation, maintenance, or connection, at the borders of the United States, of facilities for the exportation and importation of natural gas to or from a foreign country in compliance with Executive Order No.
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Page 235 - Commission may grant any application for an order under this section in whole or in part and upon such terms and conditions as it finds necessary or appropriate to secure the maintenance of adequate service and the coordination in the public interest of facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.
Page 236 - Commission (1) to receive all applications for permits for the construction, operation, maintenance, or connection, at the borders of the United States, of facilities for the transmission of electric energy between the United States and foreign countries, and...
Page 236 - Presidential permits for the construction, operation, maintenance, or connection, at the borders of the United States, of facilities for the transmission of electric energy between the United States and a foreign country in compliance with Executive Order No. 8202, dated July 13, 1939.
Page 236 - Commissioner" means the Federal Power Commission, and a member thereof, respectively. EXPORTATION OR IMPORTATION OF NATURAL GAS SEC. 3. After six months from the date on which this Act takes effect no person shall export any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or import any natural gas from a foreign country without first having secured an order of the Commission authorizing it to do so. The Commission shall issue such order upon application, unless, after opportunity for hearing,...
Page 235 - SEC. 3. After six months from the date on which this Act takes effect no person shall export any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or import any natural gas from a foreign country without first having secured an order of the Commission authorizing it to do so. The Commission shall issue such order upon application, unless, after opportunity for hearing, it finds that the proposed exportation or importation will not be consistent with the public interest.
Page 230 - The test is whether the project will be in the public interest. And that determination can be made only after an exploration of all issues relevant to the public interest, including future power demand and supply, alternate sources of power, the public interest in preserving reaches of wild rivers and wilderness areas, the preservation of anadromous fish for commercial and recreational purposes, and the protection...
Page 235 - Commission may deem necessary or appropriate in the premises, and may from time to time, for good cause shown, make such supplemental orders in the premises as it may deem necessary or appropriate, and may by any such supplemental order modify the provisions of any previous order as to the...