Lake Erie Phosphorus Caused Algae Bloom Article.

[MonacoMike]

Not once in the whole article was over planting of corn for ethanol even considered part of the problem. The enviros complaining about the algae bloom are often the same ones that pushed ethanol on us...


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/u.../json8.nytimes.com/pages/national/index.jsonp

MM

 

[Woody]

Not once in the whole article was over planting of corn for ethanol even considered part of the problem. The enviros complaining about the algae bloom are often the same ones that pushed ethanol on us...


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/us/lifting-ban-toledo-says-its-water-is-safe-to-drink-again.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fnational%2Findex.jsonp

MM

MM, sure it is...it's included in the agricultural category.

 

[MonacoMike]

MM, sure it is...it's included in the agricultural category.

All the marginally productive land once set aside for conservation has been put back in production just so we can burn it in cars, it now comes out that the pollution benefits are nonexistent and were overblown when the law was passed. The word ethanol does not appear in the article. They fail to connect the dots, at the NYT, that their pushing of ethanol then, is a big part of this problem they so lament now.

MM

 

[ttmott]

My Florida home is between two large estuaries, the Banana and Indian rivers and we enjoy boating in both. Over the years the waters have become increasingly turbid and this year has been one of the worst. A lot of factors play into the issue and phosphates are but only a part of the issue. Our friends with bald heads and ponytails proclaim it's all man made but in fact much is nature. We have enjoyed quite a bit of rain this year and the runoff carries soil and bio-mass to the basins. The result is a prime biological soup for the oxygen depriving algae. That is not to say we humans don't contribute: Titusville, a city in this area on the Indian river has been dumping sewer for years and finally several years ago the federal gov. got them to stop. We are now under a lawn fertilizer ban until October but only for homeowners: seems a couple of cities and the farmers are not a component of the ban; politically understandable.... The mammal population in the rivers has really exploded in the last couple of years and consequently the bottom grasses have all but gone away, as a result so has much of natures filter media; compound that with the increased Coliform bacteria from the mammals and we have a real bacteriological soup. We are all watching with concern and all are a bit at fault, even our bald headed ponytailed friends for some of their poor decisions.
Tom