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Our views: ; Those clean fuels are not so clean; A vegetable oil spill will kill as many birds as a crude oil spill
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Charleston Daily Mail
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March 13, 2008
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THE search for cleaner alternatives to dirty and expensive
petroleum is producing environmental dangers of its own, as recent
reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post reveal.
The Times reported on Alabama's first soybean-based biodiesel
plant in Tuscaloosa. It was found to be releasing into the Black
Warrior River vegetable oil and grease at a level 450 times what is
permitted.
Residents noticed it 17 miles downstream, killing birds and fish.
"Ironic, isn't it?" said Barbara Lynch of the Iowa Department of
Resources. "This is big business. There's lots of money involved."
Her state is not immune to pollution from so-called "clean"
fuels. In the summer of 2006, hundreds of fish ...