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__NOTOC__ The Point Aconi Generating Station is a 165 MW Canadian electrical generating station located in the community of Point Aconi, Nova Scotia, a rural community in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. A thermal generating station, the Point Aconi Generating Station is owned and operated by Nova Scotia Power Corporation. It opened on August 13, 1994 following four years of construction. The Point Aconi Generating Station is situated on the shores of the Cabot Strait at the northeastern tip of Boularderie Island, located approximately west of the headland named Point Aconi and east of the headland named Table Head. Its civic address is 1800 Prince Mine Rd, Point Aconi, NS. The facility is located at the northern terminus of Prince Mine Rd - Highway 162. ==Operation== The plant burns coal and petroleum coke, which is transported to the facility using dump trucks from a bulk ship unloading pier in Sydney Harbour near the community of Whitney Pier. It features one boiler and one chimney 107-metres above ground. The Point Aconi Generating Station consumes 189,000 tonnes of coal and 213,000 tonnes of petroleum coke per year and currently generates approximately 6.8% of the province's electricity and produces roughly 10.07% of the province's air pollution, including hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, hexachlorobenzene and mercury.〔("Dirty Air from Power Plants Fuels Health Problems in Nova Scotia" Pollution Watch )〕 In 2007 it created 1.465 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.〔(Facility and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environment Canada )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Point Aconi Generating Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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