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How can we get rid of or reduce the Dead Zone in the Gulf every year?
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:40 am
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:40 am
Was reading the BR Biz Report's Daily Report this morning and saw them talking about this contest that Tulane's running to help reduce the Dead Zone in the Gulf.
If I'm understanding this correctly, The Gulf pays the price for a problem with fertilizer and other runoff from the MS River Valley (that stretches across just about the entire middle of the United States) that ends up in the Mississippi and other tributaries that lead to the Gulf.
Is there any real way to limit or mitigate this problem?
What does the OT think?
If I'm understanding this correctly, The Gulf pays the price for a problem with fertilizer and other runoff from the MS River Valley (that stretches across just about the entire middle of the United States) that ends up in the Mississippi and other tributaries that lead to the Gulf.
Is there any real way to limit or mitigate this problem?
What does the OT think?
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Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:41 am to GFunk
Stop spraying pesticides in the Miss R. Valley.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:41 am to GFunk
the "dead zone" is an issue but no where near as big of a deal as they make it out to be
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:44 am to GFunk
Eliminate corn subsidies.
The majority of the dead zone has been created as a result of various corn fertilizer run-off which makes its way into the Mississippi River.
frick ethanol. Various studies have indicated that sugar cane provides a more efficient alternative fuel source anyway.
The majority of the dead zone has been created as a result of various corn fertilizer run-off which makes its way into the Mississippi River.
frick ethanol. Various studies have indicated that sugar cane provides a more efficient alternative fuel source anyway.
This post was edited on 8/11/16 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:45 am to mylsuhat
I've caught many fish and seen many amazing things in that "dead zone".
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:47 am to Sid in Lakeshore
It's from fertilizers, not pesticides.
For the record, the dead zone is an issue but it's overblown because marine life an move. If I could change anything upstream from us it'd be the dams on the Missouri River, they are reducing the sediment load in the Mississippi by something like 50%.
For the record, the dead zone is an issue but it's overblown because marine life an move. If I could change anything upstream from us it'd be the dams on the Missouri River, they are reducing the sediment load in the Mississippi by something like 50%.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:48 am to GFunk
we need to build a big pipe at mouth of miss river and pump that shite back up north to their lakes
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:49 am to Canard Noir
quote:I agree, but as of now that sediment is just being dumped into the gulf, not going out and rebuilding the coast
If I could change anything upstream from us it'd be the dams on the Missouri River, they are reducing the sediment load in the Mississippi by something like 50%
Need to let the fingers flow. Bayou Lafourche, Terrebonne, etc need to FLOW!
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:54 am to saint amant steve
quote:Support.
Eliminate corn subsidies.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:55 am to pjab
Like what?
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:57 am to GFunk
That dead zone eventually sinks to the bottom and then gets covered up with silt. In a few centuries or so, turns to oil. Sounds like a win to me.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:59 am to mylsuhat
Absolutely but even the Venice cane marshes are disappearing because they're starved for sediment. We' ve basically stopped maintaining the east levee of the river south of, say, Empire and I'd love to see what could happen if we just give those areas a chance. So people have to pay a little more for electricity in the Midwest, frick them, it's killing us.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 12:07 pm to chicano12
quote:
Like what?
like fricking Ethanol.
Someone please explain why we price protect a crop and make co-ops filthy rich while mandating that 10% of our fuel be made from ethanol. Corn subsidies are welfare for the co-ops and the farmers still get fricked in the deal. It's welfare that no one is appalled by because Leroy and Shtonya aren't getting it.
Posted on 8/11/16 at 12:13 pm to GFunk
stop ethanol mandates
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Posted on 8/11/16 at 1:06 pm to Cdawg
quote:
In a few tens of thousands of centuries or so, [it] turns to oil.
FIFY
Posted on 8/11/16 at 1:06 pm to Cdawg
quote:
In a few tens of thousands of centuries or so, [it] turns to oil.
FIFY
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