I doubt it too, but it looks like there is a natural clay base, which should prevent too much leaching. In saying that, I still think it's a bad idea & agree that it needs to be removed.
Yes, ww, it looks like clay but not a site that has been well constructed, to my eye. A dammed gully? Hmmmmm.... Still, I'm only speculating from a distance. It looks very full. What will they do if there's a significant rainfall event? They won't be able to irrigate to pasture when the soil is saturated. It's an environmental threat, imo.
And I'm wondering if there is a rule about the length of time buttermilk can be stored before application to pasture. There is for blood - two days. And yes, there are dairy farms that apply blood (horse for example) in great quantities, to pasture that is grazed by dairy cows that supply milk to... a well-known dairy processing company.
On behalf of your more rabid right-wing commenters, who seem reluctant to comment, I confirm the buttermilk lake is partially sealed. The top is prevented from leaking, through the use of a gravity powered seal. This seal stops the buttermilk flying up off the ground and polluting the surrounding area. Given the size of the lake, this pollution would spread for hundreds of kilometres. So, by implementing the gravity seal, which has been 100% effective to date, we can see exactly how committed Fonterra are to the environment. On a related subject, National intend to campaign on a platform of privatizing gravity, so it can be used more efficiently through the use of market mechanisms. This will also increase tax revenues, because sales of gravity will attract GST. National expects to sell half of the gravity in the Fiordland National Park because the coal and minerals are of low value. It's the advice of their experts that those minerals can be left to float away as no sensible resource extraction (note - different to "mining") company will want to mine them.
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I doubt it too, but it looks like there is a natural clay base, which should prevent too much leaching. In saying that, I still think it's a bad idea & agree that it needs to be removed.
Yes, ww, it looks like clay but not a site that has been well constructed, to my eye. A dammed gully? Hmmmmm....
Still, I'm only speculating from a distance. It looks very full. What will they do if there's a significant rainfall event? They won't be able to irrigate to pasture when the soil is saturated. It's an environmental threat, imo.
And I'm wondering if there is a rule about the length of time buttermilk can be stored before application to pasture. There is for blood - two days. And yes, there are dairy farms that apply blood (horse for example) in great quantities, to pasture that is grazed by dairy cows that supply milk to... a well-known dairy processing company.
On behalf of your more rabid right-wing commenters, who seem reluctant to comment, I confirm the buttermilk lake is partially sealed.
The top is prevented from leaking, through the use of a gravity powered seal. This seal stops the buttermilk flying up off the ground and polluting the surrounding area. Given the size of the lake, this pollution would spread for hundreds of kilometres. So, by implementing the gravity seal, which has been 100% effective to date, we can see exactly how committed Fonterra are to the environment.
On a related subject, National intend to campaign on a platform of privatizing gravity, so it can be used more efficiently through the use of market mechanisms. This will also increase tax revenues, because sales of gravity will attract GST. National expects to sell half of the gravity in the Fiordland National Park because the coal and minerals are of low value. It's the advice of their experts that those minerals can be left to float away as no sensible resource extraction (note - different to "mining") company will want to mine them.
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