These aren't just any provinces. I mean New Brunswick is nice, and huge shout-out to Gander, Newfoundland but the three provinces in the headline are the breadbasket of Canada and a world-class agricultural resource.
The Premiers of Saskatchewan:
The same federal government who alienated our oil and gas industry is now putting global food security at risk by attacking the hard working agriculture producers across western Canada with an arbitrary goal to reduce fertilizer usage.
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) July 26, 2022
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And Alberta:
And Manitoba:Ottawa’s planned attack on fertilizer will hurt our farmers.
— Jason Kenney 🇺🇦 (@jkenney) July 27, 2022
It needs to stop.
Less fertilizer means less food.
Europe shut in about 50% of its fertilizer production.
Canada should not repeat the same mistake. pic.twitter.com/BztOiC1CPd
Manitoba families can't afford even higher grocery costs. Manitoba farmers feed the world. We'll continue to fight for them.@Min_DJohnson & I wrote to @JustinTrudeau & @mclaudebibeau to fight for you against the increased costs their nutrient reduction policy would cause #mbpoli pic.twitter.com/nIX3SewuzY
— Heather Stefanson 🇺🇦 (@HStefansonMB) July 29, 2022
As noted in the outro from yesterday's Nitrogen: "Was the Colosseum Paid for with Pee?":
That's it for Messy Nessy for this week. I had been feeling as though I was depriving our readers of that cyber cabinet of curiosities but it's August in Paris and posting will be light.
We on the other hand, despite a few hundred posts on the topic, have barely scratched the surface in our review of nitrogen: Money, Power, Glory, Guano!
There is a concerted effort to decrease meat consumption, with or without the concurrence of the citoyens, and the focus recently has been on what makes protein, protein, nitrogen. From the decrees in Canada and The Netherlands to article's such as this in Scientific American, July 27: "Nitrogen Emissions: "Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.""
It would be best if we had an alternative in place before going all command-and-control and recreating in food what is being done in energy.
The biggest problem with moving too fast on this stuff:
Three Billion People Eat Food Grown With Natural Gas Derived Nitrogen Fertilizer
