Comments on: Our Food Supply System Adds to Global Warming https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/02/02/global-warming-caused-by-our-food-supply/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: S. Thomas Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/02/02/global-warming-caused-by-our-food-supply/#comment-20146 S. Thomas Bond Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:04:03 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=7461#comment-20146 Yes, more contamination in the gas fields means more contamination in the farm fields. The press to produce more corn is so that it can be used to make ethanol, the dilutant for gasoline. Petroleum production, industrial farming, chemical companies and pollution all go together. Yes, more contamination in the gas fields means more contamination in the farm fields. The press to produce more corn is so that it can be used to make ethanol, the dilutant for gasoline. Petroleum production, industrial farming, chemical companies and pollution all go together.

]]> By: Duane Nichols https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/02/02/global-warming-caused-by-our-food-supply/#comment-20130 Duane Nichols Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:12:53 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=7461#comment-20130 FROM Mother Jones magazine: Elizabeth Royte has described the direct links between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the food supply. In short, extracting natural gas from rock formations by bombarding them with chemical-spiked fluid leaves behind fouled water—and that fouled water can make it into the crops and animals we eat. But there's another, emerging food/fracking connection that few are aware of. US agriculture is highly reliant on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, and nitrogen fertilizer is synthesized in a process fueled by natural gas. As more and more of the US natural gas supply comes from fracking, more and more of the nitrogen fertilizer farmers use will come from fracked natural gas. If Big Ag becomes hooked on cheap fracked gas to meet its fertilizer needs, then the fossil fuel industry will have gained a powerful ally in its effort to steamroll regulation and fight back opposition to fracking projects. http://mobile.alternet.org/alternet/#!/entry/the-surprising-connection-between-food-and-fracking,510f1706d7fc7b567015e8ac FROM Mother Jones magazine:

Elizabeth Royte has described the direct links between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the food supply. In short, extracting natural gas from rock formations by bombarding them with chemical-spiked fluid leaves behind fouled water—and that fouled water can make it into the crops and animals we eat.

But there’s another, emerging food/fracking connection that few are aware of. US agriculture is highly reliant on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, and nitrogen fertilizer is synthesized in a process fueled by natural gas. As more and more of the US natural gas supply comes from fracking, more and more of the nitrogen fertilizer farmers use will come from fracked natural gas.

If Big Ag becomes hooked on cheap fracked gas to meet its fertilizer needs, then the fossil fuel industry will have gained a powerful ally in its effort to steamroll regulation and fight back opposition to fracking projects.

http://mobile.alternet.org/alternet/#!/entry/the-surprising-connection-between-food-and-fracking,510f1706d7fc7b567015e8ac

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