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Some environmental groups are using the permit renegotiation process to criticize what they see as existing environmental abuse by the power plant...
...draft permit for the Mirant Kendall Station, located in Cambridge downstream from the Longfellow Bridge, would allow the plant to continue using the Charles to clean its turbines...
Under both the expired and draft permits, the natural gas plant can use water from the nearby Broad Canal to cool its turbines and eject millions of gallons of water into the river at 105 degrees in a process known as once-through cooling...
Julia Bovey, a spokeswoman for the Conservation Law Foundation, said she was concerned that under the new permit, the plant might send “excess amounts of super-hot water” into the Charles. Historically, the plant has not taken full advantage of the capacity set forth by the permit, Bovey said...
Bovey said that the draft permit “is not different from the old permit,” but its effects could be more harmful if the plant chooses to utilize its full capacity...