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Spiller, Judith and John Roanowicz. Overview of the Adequacy and Analysis of Scientific Information Concerning the Transboundary Effects of Fundy Tidal Power (Working Paper 2). Marine Law Institute. May 1984. 99 pp.

This paper is one of twelve working papers prepared for a study of the international environmental risks of large-scale coastal energy developments in the Gulf of Maine - Bay of Fundy region. The study was conducted by a team of investigators from the University of Southern Maine, the University of New Hampshire, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Support for the project was provided by the William H. Donner Foundation, Inc. of New York, NY and the Max Bell Foundation of Toronto, Canada. This paper explores in a general sense the meaning of adequacy with respect to the proposed Fundy tidal power project. It then considers two approaches to applying scientific information to environmental decision-making. The first utilizes analogs as a basis for making predictions. The second draws on existing scientific and technical information about tidal power operation and the geographic area under consideration. This approach provides an, overview of current scientific understanding about the Fundy-Gulf of Maine system, and it suggests direction of change, extrapolated from similar perturbations of the local ecosystems.

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