The Bull Frog Energy coming from the Irving run hydro generating plant located on the Magaguadavic River, New Brunswick, is responsible for the demise of the wild Atlantic Salmon on this river. The fish bypass was not operating properly and killing 85% of the smolt going to sea when it was commissioned after the upgrade in 2004. The Atlantic Salmon Federation kept this information from the public because the owners of the hydro plant, hands out huge donations to the Federation and also helped donate to build the Atlantic Salmon Interpretive Center located in Chamcook , New Brunswick Canada. The hydro plant actually uses a head pond to generate power, which was supposed to be run only by the flow of the river to be classified as green. Next time you buy green power, ask at what cost is this power to the environment. Just ask the people who live along the Magaguadavic River and lake Utopia what happened when this hydro plant started generating power.
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