A now bankrupt Indiana dairy farmer has successfully deflated several gigantic methane gas bubbles that appeared underneath the plastic liner he was using to contain 21 million gallons of cow manure.
This
WSJ article fails to detail the many mistakes Tony Goltstein made when he built the dairy farm in 2006.
This 2006
article in The Indiana Prairie Farmer newspaper makes no mention of the many options open to Goltstein either.
For instance, Goltstein could have leveraged green technology to recover the massive amounts of methane gas generated by the liquid manure slurry, and used the power generated by the gas to help offset his energy bills AND prevent the release of the gasses into the atmosphere.
He didn't.
He could have utilized simple gas collection techniques and sold it to a nearby utility.
He didn't.
In fact, Goltstein just lobbied for over a year to just get a simple permit to install a plastic liner to hold the manure while it waits to be carted off and dumped on other farms instead. That plastic liner however, didn't feel cooperative.
Methane is twenty times more damaging to the environment than CO2, but apparently folks in Indiana don't worry too much about issues like greenhouse gasses.
That's the kind of thing liberals worry about.
