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Gold/Mining/Energy : Royal Oak-RYO -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: leebo who wrote (659)	2/25/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1706

leebo, In the wild natural lightning starts more and bigger fires in the summer dry seasons than are started by humans. These wild fires spread over large areas and are part of the ecosystem. After a fire use of carbon dioxide is higher in the lush regrowth that in the mature woods so that it is self sorrecting. Planted forests are better at CO2 removal that the old forests as they use fast grwoing trees that make more biomass faster. Cars and other fossil fuels are the problem as they just make CO2 and their is no natural way to remove it. As to Royal Oak in BC, the % of the mine used by RYO is minimal and after it is gone there is a fund setup to restore the area. BC has the worlds tightest laws in this regard. A bigger problem is ocean dumping of garbage, both industrial and residential and sanitary(toilet solids) Also over fishing of top predators is allowing jellyfish and other non edible fish to exterminate the fish we want that were kept in check by the top predators. In terms of mass the jellyfish are the largest predator of juvenile edible fish, as they are netters and not chasers. Quite a lot of your post is wrong, but politically correct, and that is why you posted it. It turns out that it is ecologically better to burn the garbage(making sure you burn it hot so no dioxins are made, they break down at high temp and a good design destroys them leaving only salts). It has been proven to be better to burn than to bury, and better to burn than recycle paper. You waste more energy and water and make more CO2 recycling paper than you do by burning it. If you doubt me I will give you a reference. The Toronto recysling program is a wasted sham. The only thing recycled well is metals. the glass is all buried. Sand and soda are so cheap that new glass costs only the heat to melt the sand and soda. Recycling glass takes more diesel fuel and the bottles are mixed and all broken, and are full of rusty tops etc. SInce you cannot make clear white glass from brown/green glass, and a bit of iron in the glass is why it goes green or brown, you must separate the clear from the brown and green. By the time it gets to the depot it is mass of broken glass and inseparable. It can be used for brown glass, but their is an excess of that from bottle maiking and you can only accept a small portiob of dirty glass in the mix or you get particles in the glass and bottle breakage in use or when filling. Glass is sand, smash it into asphalt or was it and make fine sand for concrete admixture, or throw it away. Recycling glass is a fools mission(unless you are a bottler reclaiming a pure batch of bottles all clean etc. Bill