SRM's have value?

[wd40]

Cargill plant to convert BSE risk matter to energy Cargill Meat Solutions is building a plant at High River to burn specified risk materials derived from the slaughter of cattle to generate power.

Construction has started on this first-of-a-kind project that will handle up to 50 million pounds of SRMs a year and supply 80 percent of the meat processor’s energy needs.

SRMs include the animal parts believed to be most at risk for spreading BSE. Those parts are banned for use in food, feed or fertilizer.


Let me guess. Ranchers will still be discounted for these "valueless" materials.....&%$)#@

[perfecho]

Will still get the discounts although the Feds and Province are kicking in a portion of the build up money....plus they have already gotten dollars to deal with SRM's.......too bad we couldn't learn to lobby like that and have the right friends in power!

[burnt]

Kinda makes me wonder what they did with the several billion in extra margin throughout the worst of the BSE fiasco, 2003 - 2010. They might have been able to put a bit of that back into infrastructure instead of executive bonuses?

Oh silly me to think that they might do that . . .

[rkaiser]

"learn to lobby like that and have the right friends in power!"

Hay perfecho - is that a wish - because wishes sometimes come true if you makes steps toward them every day...

[perfecho]

Hey Randy, shouldn’t be a wish, should be a matter of business in today's world, unfortunately....the day of doing "the right thing" seems to have passed and it is totally about the dollars and power, no matter how you get it.
Hell, we can’t even make a good law suit fly!
But hey, I'm there if you get a “good” scrap going ;-0

[rkaiser]

you got it perfecho -- execpt for the part about the day of doing

" "the right thing" seems to have passed "

it is stil on it's way and actually here for everyone of us to recognise every day.

[perfecho]

As long as some of us believe in it and follow it, you are right, there is hope......have a good one, and remeber, "do the right thing!" ;-)

[Kathy]

In today's business - political partnership, isn't the best most lobbying effort backed up with BLACKMAIL... wouldn't take much to get some pictures of a politician doing something he shouldn't be.... Maybe we should have ABP hire private investigators to "get the dirt" on those that hold the strings to the money purse... If AltaLink and the government can do it, against stubborn righteous landowners, surely it shouldn't be hard to arrange our own "files"....

Just kidding, but I'm not laughing.

Hope they scrub the SRM burner of heavy metals.... I wonder if they will attempt to burn the SRMs they've been placing in specific dump sites for the last several years?

Maybe they could cut costs and have a crematorium at site also.....

[Kathy]

PS - 80 percent of their electricity needs.... what, Cargill going off grid? Is this their response to the new HVDC powerlines and money grab by AltaLink/SNC Lavalin, and ATCO? So not only are expected to pay for the new lines, now we are subsidizing companies so they can go off grid, thus increasing the percentage of the cost burden on non-corporate energy users.... Interesting....

[perfecho]

Have to agree Kathy, like your idea of getting photos, but, not sure if it’s the aging demographics or busy lives, we are either forgetful or forgiving.
One of the leading candidates for Eddie’s job lost his constituency due to a lucrative contract he gave to his EA. So they then send him on a lucrative out of country job and now he's back to be our leader.....
And we think 3rd world leaders are corrupt........

[perfecho]

Sorry, correction to above....he wasn't ousted by constituents; he resigned for a cushy job down south.

[burnt]

perfecho, someone once made the point that the leaders of 3rd world countries rob their people at the point of a gun while the leaders of countries like ours do it at the point of a pen . . .

[kato]

Oh, how true!!!!!

[wd40]

The hypocrisy is that abattoirs have to separate the SRM’s in the plant. Keep them separate in the storage bin. Then the truck comes to pick it all up and it all (that is ALL) goes into the truck in one pile.