First Name: | Linda |
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Last Name: | Fitzgerald |
Email Address: | lmf50614@hotmail.com |
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Subject | Don't give carbon credits to Iowa manure greenwashing |
Comment |
My home state of Iowa has become a sacrifice zone every bit as devastating, spread over the whole state, as the Gulf communities and 3rd World countries we pity. Our water, our soil, our air -- and even our politics -- are all polluted by unregulated animal production and the commodity crops that feed them. A nutrient reduction strategy has failed to stem, much less reduce nutrient loss, given that it is carefully controlled to prevent any economic discomfort to the industrial agriculture that creates most of the nutrient pollution in our waterways -- all the way to the dead zone in the Gulf and red tides in W. Florida. The chief polluters are eager to push a biofuel agenda and now have jumped on biogas and its carbon pipeline system as a way to justify massive expansion of their "no consequences" extractive business model. The few remaining family farmers are valiantly fighting back as politicians give their funders eminent domain to disrupt small scale free range cattle production and responsibly scaled crops as the pipeline owners force their dangerous carbon capture pipes across the state, crossing multiple waterways in the Mississippi and Missouri watersheds. What is in it for them? Your generous carbon credits. Please do not feed this monster that is destroying one of the formerly richest soil and water systems in the world. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2022-04-02 07:02:52 |
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