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Brooklyn cruise ships to plug in, finally
When cruise ships come in to the Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal they bring a lot of business, tourism dollars and people to town. They also brings some 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide, 95 tons of nitrous oxide, and 6.5 tons of particulate matter annually when they park and burn their diesel engines. That is about to change as Brooklyn becomes the first east coast cruise operation with the capability to let ships "plug in" to clean shoreside electrical power instead.
By 2012, cruise ships at will be plugged in with shoreside electrical power rather than running on diesel gas while docked.
"It will be the equivalent of removing 5,000 cars per year from the road annually," Seth W. Pinsky, the president of the city's Economic Development Corporation told the New York Times.
It seems while all were in agreement, nobody wanted to pay for it.
In an agreement made this week, the $15 million project will be funded with $12 million from the Port Authority and nearly $3 million from a US Environmental Protection Agency grant. Carnival Corporation will spend $4 million to retrofit their Princess Cruises and Cunard Line ship that dock in Brooklyn.
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Flickr photo by greenbk
Filed under: North America, United States, Ecotourism, Cruises, Caribbean
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
u07ch Apr 18th 2011 8:58AM
I think clean might need quotes too; the pollution is just exported elsewhere.
Aleida Apr 18th 2011 1:59PM
I have to side with the previous poster but I'm glad that people are at least trying to find ways to reduce their carbon emissions.