After my disappointment with the nuclear power station, I racked my brain and exercised my research skills and found an excellent story. I knew of a man who fished with a mud horse on the mud flats near the power station and thought this would relate to Gaia well but I wasn't sure what the documentary would be about. I found an article about him and it turns out that he is the last mud horse fisherman in the world. There used to be hundreds but now he's the only one left, which is sad, but great for me because now I have a documentary story! I went to visit him and do a shoot and he told me that the power plant is planning for an extension, and if they get it he won't be able to fish shrimp anymore. At the moment they are working side by side but our need for electricity is wiping out an ancient tradition.
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