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jjacquet | April 25, 2007This week the Vancouver Sun ran a story about the deaths of marine mammals at salmon farms, which smatter the British Columbian coast:
The Living Oceans Society says that within a two-week period a Pacific white-sided dolphin, harbour porpoise and Steller sea lion got entangled and drowned in the predator nets at Mainstream Canada's Wehlis Bay farm in the Broughton Archipelago.
The Sointula, B.C.-based group also notes that fish farms are only required to report mammals they shoot, meaning the extent of the total yearly deaths at salmon farms is unknown.
Sorry? Only required to report…
jjacquet | April 19, 2007
A solution to the energy crisis: NOT efficiency, NOT elimination of subsidies, NOT internalizing externatilities. No, no. The latest solution to the energy crisis to is turn pig fat into diesel. The article was published today at the BBC:
American oil company ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods, the world's biggest meat producer, have announced that they will produce diesel from pork fat.
Pigs, as discussed in the Save the Oceans, Eat Like a Pig post consume about 25% of all fishmeal produced or about 7.5 million tonnes of fish. Essentially, the corporate world's greatest new idea is to turn…