by Jessica McKenzie Federal agencies and state governments are spending millions on anaerobic digesters to wring renewable energy from animal poop. But critics say “cow power” from factory farms is neither clean nor green. At a glance, anaerobic digesters seem … Continue Reading…
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Another beautiful country summer day … except for the stench that can be smelled for miles around. Get ready, Lake Erie! You were hoping for fireworks? Sorry … you’re getting cowshit instead. Steady stream of manure tankers leaving Hudson Dairy, … Continue Reading…
Briskey draglining liquid manure on cut hay field, northwest corner of Posey Lake Highway and Beecher Road, Bean/Tiffin/Maumee watershed. Pee-eew, bottom-of-the-lagoon stench, wind blowing northeast right towards Posey Lake, just before 4th of July weekend. Moving on to the South … Continue Reading…
November 18, 2019 Up here in the Western Lake Erie Basin tributaries, we’re finally starting to get rid of last week’s 8” of snow. Sun is out, temps are finally above freezing, it’s thawing. Slushy snow, saturated ground everywhere. Then … Continue Reading…
October 27, 2019 Manure madness continues here in the tributaries to the Western Lake Erie Basin, interrupted only by heavy rains. Under the rules of Michigan’s NPDES CAFO permit (similar to Ohio’s CAFF permit), and the guidelines in Michigan’s … Continue Reading…