Liquid nitrogen fertilizer spill kills nearly 750,000 fish in Iowa river, officials say
Hundreds of thousands of fish were killed earlier this month in a nearly 50-mile stretch of the East Nishnabotna River to the Missouri border due to a fertilizer spill in Iowa, state officials said.
"How was work today, dear?" "Eh, counted some fish."
Pay the gov enough to look the other way:
Them: How can you tell it's a lie?
Me: They put an exact number on something that could only be an estimate.
Probably a number on the low side, too.
That exact number sounds fishy.
I see what you did there... u/#ummwhat
u/#HatPepe
In essence, the smallest fish, baitfish, the fish that exist to eat algae and feed bigger fish.
Watch the water.
that's sad, more poisoning of the Midwest:(
and the Missouri is the longest river in America, they're Always f***ing with it.
Too many are blind to the destruction of our food and water supplies happening right before our very eyes.
If this is liquid nitrogen. Nitrogen boils at about -340C, it would vaporize very quickly indeed if it was released into the wild.
What was released?
OP Headline says "liquid nitrogen" but the actual headline is "liquid nitrogen fertilizer." Huge difference.
"Liquid nitrogen" would probably have been close to harmless, except near where it was actually released; it would have just frozen sections of the river.
I would assume that liquid nitrogen fertiliser is frozen, what else could it be if its liquid? Another assumption is that its garbage journalism.
It is not the liquid nitrogen you are thinking of. It was either 28 or 32% nitrogen which I believe is made from urea and is very saline. I have used the 28% on my farm. It is roughly 3# of nitrogen in each gallon of suspension.
Perhaps this will alleviate the carp problem downstream?
https://youtu.be/86dMx57N8LE?si=gY8Jg3-IJX3D63vQ
I don't think this is clearly an attack.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/03/13/massive-amount-of-crop-fertilizer-spills-into-sw-iowa-river/