Environment Southland is batting for the wrong team.

In July 2025 Gore's Coopers Wells water supply was shut down due to seriously high nitrate spiking. This ODT story outlines the lengths the regulator's staff went to in their determination to deflect suspicion away from dairy.

The ES science manager Karen Wilson has tarnished her credentials by saying that "no cause was found for the spike."

This aerial image shows intensive dairy right next door to the wells.

Wilson is also deeply involved in the subsequent cover-up.

Environment (it's in the name) Southland no longer seems fit for purpose.

https://archive.ph/0K8fl#selection-1427.1-1427.124

#NZ #Dairy #Environment #Southland #Nitrates

#Nitrates, #pesticides, #pollution de l’ #eau : la Cour des comptes met en lumière comment les politiques agricoles nuisent à l’action de la police de l’eau

Contrôles rares et sanctions quasi inexistantes quand il s’agit de faire respecter les règlementation eau au regard de la pollution par des intrants de synthèse, pesticides en tête. https://www.generations-futures.fr/actualites/cour-comptes-police-eau/

#Cancer colorectal chez les jeunes : un pesticide identifié comme facteur de risque https://reporterre.net/Un-pesticide-identifie-comme-un-facteur-de-risque-des-cancers-colorectaux-precoces

#sante #actu #actualite

Some colleagues and I wrote a piece on the environmental history of nitrates for the iN-Net nitrates governance blog. Quite short but hopefully an interesting entry point into the topic for people!
https://www.in-net.network/blog/qatl6xsriim1fdn560bbqnj1lu2khl

#envhist #histodons #inNet #nitrates

On This Week in #Water 💧

• The #war with #Iran 🇮🇷 is endangering #marine life 🐠

• Nearly one in five Americans might have #nitrates in their tap water 🚰

• Plant seeds 🌱 can “hear” sounds that tell them to sprout

• El Niño is likely to return this summer. 🌞 How hot will it be? Kokushobi hot 🥵

Listen now! https://h2oradio.org/this-week-in-water/the-war-with-iran-endangers-marine-life

Given sufficient electricity, we can make #Hydrogen in quantity without reforming Methane. The #Oxygen is a probably useful byproduct.
Given heat, pressure, and a catalyst, we can combine it with atmospheric #Nitrogen to make #Ammonia, a direct fertiliser, and starting point for Nitric acid and then #Nitrates. Among #AmmoniumNitrate 's uses is fertiliser for growng food.

I think we might build an Ammonia plant next to a #fission boiler, and use #heat as well as perhaps #electricity from it.

"Ses positions ne conviennent pas à la profession agricole", ils dénoncent la "mutation forcée" d'une fonctionnaire chargée de la lutte contre les #nitrates
https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/bretagne/ille-et-vilaine/rennes/ses-positions-ne-conviennent-pas-a-la-profession-agricole-ils-denoncent-la-mutation-forcee-d-une-fonctionnaire-chargee-de-la-lutte-contre-les-nitrates-3319881.html

#alguesvertes