Toxins in our fish?

[elwoodtrix]

Are the oil tankers discharging their cargo into the ocean? I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought.
What would that have to do with mercury levels in the ocean?

Oil spills contribute to mercury levels being higher.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Good info Dennis!

 

[CHenry]

I only eat my own beef or in my case now, a beef raised by @turkeyrun so I know there's nothing in that but grass and some sweet feed maybe.

 

[elwoodtrix]

Big ships burn diesel and discharge their exhaust into the air unlike an outboard motor on our small lakes that discharge the exhaust into the water to muffle it.

there's more to it than that.

 

[dennishoddy]

I’d like to know more about exactly how they test the fish. Do they properly fillet and skin then test just the fillets? Was red meat/blood lines/fat/etc all trimmed away? So many variables at play it’s difficult to trust without more details

I'd kind of like to know that intel as well.
If I know the gubberment, they take every worst scenerio and create a narrative from it.
One person dies from mercury poisoning or dozens die of a heart attack with trace amounts of mercury in their body, and a huge warning is issued and billions of our tax dollars are spent to try and authenticate some narrative that can't actually be proven, just like the power plant example above and Covid. Never forget the covid disinformation the government put out with no scientific studies while touting "follow the science" to restrict our freedom.
Holy crap, when a kid we played with mercury, coating penny's to make them shiny and rolling the little balls around for fun.
No third arm growing out of my forehead yet.

 

[dennishoddy]

I only eat my own beef or in my case now, a beef raised by @turkeyrun so I know there's nothing in that but grass and some sweet feed maybe.

Aw hell, if the lakes are contaminated with mercury by power plants, the rain and drifting winds have contaminated the ranch lands as well. You're eating mercury meat!
Are there any warnings out there that say our beef cattle are contaminated with Mercury at the level they are unsafe to eat?
I tried to research that, but every site wants to implant cookies and I'm not going there. I know most sites do that behind the scenes but when one specifies that with a link, I'm done.

 

[dennishoddy]

I love me some fresh oysters at certain restaurants and a good redfish at trappers or the Y lol

Freezer full of redfish from Louisiana. We had it on the half shell yesterday.

 

[dennishoddy]

Oil spills contribute to mercury levels being higher.

Oil spills from tankers are national news. Commiefornika is so anal about every drop of oil or whatever enters their waters that it makes national news.
Is there something you can link to show illegal discharges from the tankers that caused that?
I'm willing to learn and concede.

 

[Rustytigwire]

During the obummer years, he took on a war on coal for his green agenda. One of his "experts in the EPS speculated mercury was coming from coal fired power plants.
I worked at Sooner Power plant at that time which is coal fired and assisted in the mandatory mercury emissions testing and reporting as part of my environmental monitoring duties.
OG&E spent millions of dollars buying the instruments, installing them and spending three years monitoring the amount of mercury coming out of the stacks.
The instruments didn't measure any in the first year, so the EPA came back with new equipment that was much more sensitive. It could measure one part per billion in the stack emissions.
There was an occasional reading in two years. The obummer administration abandoned the project and our equipment was mothballed.
Mercury is a naturally occurring earth element that appears naturally in our waters and the ocean. The level is so low that it's almost unreadable, but there have been a couple of instances like a lake in NE Ok that had a high mercury warning for a few different species of fish. The name escapes me at the moment.
Basically, the warning was pregnant women and small children should refrain from eating the fish. Healthy folks were told to try and restrict it to two meals a month.
Several lakes around Ok have that warning.
From the Oklahoma DEQ, "The DEQ emphasizes that this advisory does not imply that the lake water is unsafe to drink or enjoy recreational activities. The purpose of the advisory is to inform and allow people to make informed choices about their diet and recommend not consuming certain fish from these lakes more than once or twice a month."
What's interesting is that the named lakes with high mercury levels do not include Sooner Lake which is the cooling water lake right next to the power plant that is 5000 acres in size, nor any lakes around, nor Shady Point plant near Poteau. All coal burners in Oklahoma get their coal from Wyoming like most of the others which is considered to be a clean coal.
Can't speak for Tx though.

Im a curious cat. Really appreciate your informative post, thanks. So much great stuff to know but only one lifetime.
PS...
79 at Sooner i welded the steam leak off lines off the main valve feeding turbine #2 that return to the condensor. Inside against the fan on the big end. Before the shell cover was put on. Fave thing was go up on #1 boiler, open the inspection doors and see the fire. Hell of a draft would suck yer hat off.

 

[dennishoddy]

Im a curious cat. Really appreciate your informative post, thanks. So much great stuff to know but only one lifetime.
PS...
79 at Sooner i welded the steam leak off lines off the main valve feeding turbine #2 that return to the condensor. Inside against the fan on the big end. Before the shell cover was put on. Fave thing was go up on #1 boiler, open the inspection doors and see the fire. Hell of a draft would suck yer hat off.

The boiler is 12 stories tall. The induced draft fans were powered by 9000 horsepower electric motors that create a negative pressure in the boiler so the fire didn't come out and burn your face off. It's actually very little negative pressure but keeps it inside the boiler and moving through the superheaters and into the Fly ash collection system.
There are forced draft fans that are 8000 horsepower to start the movement of air through the boiler with the ID fans moving slightly faster to create the vacuum. Very sensitive electronics monitored that vacuum level with triple redundancy to make sure it was correct, but there were fawk ups in the old electrical system that has been corrected by the new electronic computer driven system that 4 of us installed in both units after major overhauls after a couple years of prep work to make it seamless.
Under the old system, I was back at the plant after a 10 hour shift to troubleshoot a problem on the boiler at 2am or so.
The ID fan that controls the vacuum tripped offline and flames shot out 20' from every orifice on the boiler. We were on the 10th or something floor, way up and had to run to get away. The system shut down the unit but it took a minute or two before the fans could spool down and the fire go back into the boiler. No way to get to the stairways to get down.
I have so many freeking stories about that power plant. We were like the basturd stepchild of OG&E without their corporate bullshat because we were so far away from OKC Corporate.
We did things that would probably get people fired in other businesses with the bosses patting us on the back. Almost perfect safety record.
Been gone for many years and met a young man that I mentored that is still there today. He said I would not like it there and likely not make it as they have gone full safety to the point one can't do their job anymore. What took an hour to do in the past takes two days now.