| States VS. Chicken Poop Heats Up...Your House? |
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| Written by Heather McKee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 05 March 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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So it seems we just can’t help talking about chicken poop – especially now that someone may have figured out what the heck to do with all of it. We told you about the Maryland lawsuits over chicken poop in Chesapeake Bay. Now the state of Oklahoma has hired Motley Rice (best known for sticking it to the tobacco industry for $250 billion dollars) to keep the quarter million tons of chicken poop produced there each year out of their watershed.
The chicken industry is blaming the beef industry for the pollution, claiming that plaintiffs are using “junk science”, and threatening the bankruptcy of their last four family farmers. The EPA isn’t weighing in – it only sort of thinks there might possibly be a problem with chicken poop in the waterways, so they’re not really regulating it just now.
But the Maryland state senate may have a solution to all this s*itty business - they just unanimously passed a bill to allow chicken litter to be considered a “top-tier” renewable energy source. The litter has already been tested in a Maryland Correctional Facility wood chip heater, and local power companies testified on behalf of the substance as a desirable and cheap source of energy.
Huh – and we were just kidding about it.
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