The Wall Street Journal reports on a monumental fuck up that’s underway at a bankrupt Indiana dairy farm. The plastic liners of the farm’s manure lagoons have separated, and have somehow inflated with what’s likely methane gas. Think of it as a gigantic, pressurized, shit-filled zit ready to explode at any moment.
But not to worry, the farm’s owner has a plan. He’d like to take a rowboat out on the shit lagoons with his son, and slice through the liners, releasing this vast amount of methane into the atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters:
Last year, a hog farmer in Hayfield, Minn., was launched 40 feet into the air in an explosion caused by methane gas from a manure pit on his farm. He sustained burns and singed hair.
By allowing this mess to happen, this guy’s already proven himself incompetent. The only sane solution is for the state to shut down the dairy and go in there with some engineers who know what the hell they’re doing, and then bill the guy after he emerges from bankruptcy.
But it’s looking like the state is just sitting on its hands and letting the guy fix this on his own. Neighbors are not happy. (Thanks, Erica.) Link.
