Re: I vomitted today...

Posted by John_PA on August 05, 2012 at 02:44:39 from (72.95.158.197):

In Reply to: I vomitted today... posted by John_PA on August 05, 2012 at 00:12:35:

Gene,

I'm fully in support of the gas and oil industries. Please don't miss my point. That right of way did not exist when I signed the lease on the land. It is a new pipe line. There is an existing pipeline that crosses the other side of the hill, and rest assured I didn't drop a bottom on it. That existing pipeline is where I had figured they were to be working. Had the owner of the land told me of the new pipeline project, as he was aware long before signing my lease, I guarantee you I wouldn't have planted the corn anywhere near that end of the field.

In a year when I, for once, have a beautiful crop... after years and years of seeing those in the midwest glean corn in teh 200+ bushel range, whilst I struggle in the 75-90 bushel range... another outside force comes and wipes it away. I'm sure you just misunderstood my point. My point is that to me it was a thing of beauty, and a complete and udder shock.

I guess I could have been more detailed and precise in my emotions and feelings, composing quite a long, rambling run-on of a diatribe that took me through each breath. Instead, I tried to keep it short. I will not be so hasty next time. I'm mildly disappointed that you would think I, as a full time farmer, would have that mindset. If you are ever in or around Burgettstown, PA, please do stop in. I'll show you the environment that surrounds the few fertile farms. Burgettstown was the number one coal producer in the entire world during World War I. Most of the coal produced was not taken from underground mines, but through strip mines that still lay unreclaimed. Creeks in this area still run orange with mine run off which is both acidic and laced with sulphur. Have you ever witnessed this?



One of the strip mines was approximately 3700 acres, unreclaimed. Burgettstown was home to the American Zinc plant back in the early 1900's, where they smelted zinc ore on a 113 site full of old ovens. Not 2000 feet from the site of American Zinc stands Langeloth Metalurgical. It is 1 of 2 Molybdenum plants in the entire United States. Up until the 1980's, the plant did not have a scrubber on teh smoke stack and billowed out 24 tons of surfuric acid daily into the sky just west of my farm. The acid content of the soil is so high, we have acid loving mosses and lichens that are usually only found in Yosemite National Park. So yes, it has always been in my backyard, always will be in my backyard. It's more a sense of pride to have something nice be destroyed in that manner.

Also, the property owner picked that exact location for the pipeline right of way. He could have chose to have it run up against the tree line, or around the parimeter of the farm. Honestly, these people are 100% flexible with these new pipe lines. The local was chosen haphazzardly and regardless, is not the point. I'm not sure why I'm trying to defend myself. I don't want you to get the impression that I am un-American. Like I always say, "it's for the greater good of the people." err wait, no, that was the commies back before the 1980's who said that... hrrmmm...

Oh right, like I always say, to the highest bidder goes the way.

I hope you actually didn't vomit! I literally did, I'm not joking. It was a very odd feeling. Maybe I am too emotionally attached to farming. Plus, I never leave food on my plate. I eat everything so as not to waste food given to me. Seeing that much corn wasted for a 36" diameter pipe... my my... way worse than wasting a few bites on a dinner plate.

Btw, Gene, I burn wood for heat and cook with coal/nuclear fired electricity from the Bruce Mansfield Plant in Shippingport, PA. :wink: and don't think I'm attacking you. I am merely trying to use your response as a segway to prevent anyone else from thinking what you did while being as honest as I can.

This post was edited by John_PA at 02:48:19 08/05/12.

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• Re: I vomitted today... TomH in PA 06:38:42 08/05/12 (0)
• Re: I vomitted today... Bob Bancroft 04:00:33 08/05/12 (0)
• Re: I vomitted today... Phil in Pa 03:27:19 08/05/12 (0)

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