"Green" policies are destroying this country

Shoe on other foot... link or it never happened

As I said when a viable breeder reactor is ever produced you can attempt to make that argument - which is what I said originally.

How did you know they were pumping into the lake, and not sucking water out to dilute slurry in tanks? This is common practice. You take out a load and spread it, suck up water and bring it back to the tank. It helps dilute the slurry, makes it easier agitate and makes more use of the N (dilutes P&K).

Now, next question is did you report any of these alleged illegal activity? And if not, why not?

Can you confirm whether they were sucking it from or blowing it into the river? I would strongly wager the former, because the latter is basically hearsay from someone who would jump at the opportunity to criticise these evil custodians

Im what you call on the fence about this. I think it is reasonable to assume the easy oil production era has ceased to be as important as it has been. IF more energy is needed in growing economies around the world the depletion will be even faster.Fracking is only a momentary stop gap. There may be more gas field exploration.

I think the world will need every conceivable energy source. You only cut off production if another energy source is more efficient AND cheaper. Solar and wind cannot provide the answer. It cannot replace but it can add. Nuclear HAS to be part of the mix. Nate Hagen has done good work investigating all this. I still think he is too positive.

There is also a strong possibility that the world economy will collapse. That globalisation will turn into localisation and that old style recource wars will raise its ugly head again. That oil production will actually go down, as it did during Covid and the price drops. Supply chain disruption totally killing any green (or global) tech option. That we will have to grow our own food using less and less fertiliser.

So, do we see a clear path here? The answer is no, it will be messy.

The greens have their dreams and fantasies. They are currently hitting the reality wall.

Im open to suggestions but there is no simple panacea, no simple solution.

Climate change is the least of our worries or should be. Eyeballs on the important historical things first. We have been here before..

How do you know they were not sucking water up? How are you certain they're pumping valuable land nutrients directly into the river where it makes zero sense instead of them on the land?

I used to be the secretary of our local group water scheme and I saw the coliform counts for raw water go from a few 100 CFU to 10,000 of thousands around slurry spreading time. This was the water I was having to wash my kids in.

Don't tell me that farmers aren't regularly pumping raw sewage into lakes and streams. It's gotten a lot better as local stocking rates have gone down but it still happens.

I live in a very rural community and I have seen every type of environmental damage by farmers in my time. But this is community so to report anyone is literally the worst thing you could possibly do. I remember threatening one local lad with a solicitor for unpaid charges on the GWS and people blanked me for months.

I will absolutely tell you that those farmers weren't pumping full tanks of slurry into those rivers. And you saying they were is about as reliable as you claiming the CFU to be "10,000 of thousands" around slurry spreading time.

"Around slurry spreading time" is exactly when the slurry would be going into the fields, around this they might suck out water from a water source to leave back into the tank and aid agitation / clean the tank. Seems to me you're caught here in that you hadn't realised this practice, so ran to some inflationary figures to suit your reasoning. Again, what you're saying makes zero logical sense. Why would I pump money into a river (ever), particularly during the season in which it's eligible for land?

How many Breeder reactors are currently operating commercially around the world?

There are almost as many Nuclear Fusion reactors in the world as there are fast breeders, and it's not for want of trying. Many billions of mostly public money has been spent trying to get these things to work reliably and economically, and most countries have given up on development because they can't get them to work reliably, and economically.

If they do ever figure out how to do it, great, but until that day comes, it's not part of the equation

In terms of conventional nuclear reactors, we have about 200 years of fuel based on current consumption. We get about 10% of the worlds electricity from Nuclear, so if we were to double that, we'd only have a hundred years of fuel left, if we got half the worlds electricity from Nuclear, we'd be running out in 40 years

Nuclear is a useful part of the energy mix, but it is not a panacea, and not a long term solution using currently proven technology