http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=244&objectid=10448138

http://www.sustainabilitynz.org/docs/AConvenientUntruthJune07.pdf

http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/2007/07/09/15-green-politicians/

Just explaining the mindset behind the pollies’ decision to turn a blind eye.

I’ve previously said that government are negligent for not holding farmer’s accountable for their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and accused the farmers of being selfish for not wanting to meet them when it is easily possible for them to do so using current technology.

With their latest payouts it’s not as if they can’t afford to mitigate the damage they are doing to waterways.

Mind you, I was assuming most of the pollution is from effluent from milking sheds. If run off from paddocks is also part of the problem then only part of the problem will be solved.

but ’tis quite the infrastructural/eco-leap from pouring cowsh#t into rivers..

to it fueling our existances..

and a canyon-leap in presumption to conclude the latter will begat the former..or vice versa..

eh..?

so treehugger..our dairy farmers..currently awash in cash..should just be allowed to blithely carry on breaking the (already there/unenforced) laws against poisoning/polluting our waterways..?

just ‘cos they earn ‘export-cash’..?

is your chosen ‘nom de-blog’ an exercise in ‘black’ irony..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

The algae helps turn cowsh!t into JP-5.

Which is only going to get more expensive as the stuff made from dinosh!t runs out.

I should trademark some of these made-up words… but I don’t so feel free

respectfully
BJ

Cos farmers will have an economic incentive to construct settling ponds to contain their cow’s waste. A byproduct of nutrient enrichment of the waterways as a result of dairy waste flowing there is a sharp increase of algae growth.

I should know as I live in Rotorua and often can’t swim in the lakes due to the algae turning the water toxic.

Plus being a raft guide trainee I witnessed a research programme by EBOP testing my fellow guides to ascertain the impact constant exposure to the water has on their health.

Its true that the government shouldn’t be allowing farmer’s to externalise costs of their business onto the rest of us, but as it stands farmers make a goodly proportion of our banana republic economy’s export revenue.

george galloway is speaking at the auckland uni at 6.30 tonight..(library basement..)

and at auckland girls grammer tomorrow night at 7.30..

and those who have taken note of galloways expulsion from parliament..and are going..’what is that all about..?..’

could go to whoar..where about a week or so ago i linked to the vid of the speech/explanation galloway gave outside of the house of commons..

go and watch that..and you will wonder no more..

and fans of his dressing down of the american senate of the iraq war..which whoar also has archived..

will know what to expect from this new vid…’

and from his upcoming public appearances..

(heh-heh..!..i can relate to his scots/irish whakapapa..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

what has this..save in the most peripheral manner..

got to do with (cash-rich!) dairy farmers pouring cowsh*t and pollutants into our streams waterways/rivers..?

each and every day..!

and hey..!..isn’t the silence from these quarters on that subject resounding..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

This could make dairy farm effluent more valuable than milk. That would stop the dairy run-off problem real quick.