CATTLE – OIL
February 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIECANADIAN meat producers in Alberta are using their livestock excrement to heal contaminated soil caused by leaks from oil and gas exploration.Researchers at colleges in Lethbridge and Olds, Alberta, have found that contaminated earth mixed with raw cattle or poultry manure, which was turned repeatedly to introduce oxygen to the mix, developed micro-organisms, (fungus and molds), getting to work to break down hardened hydrocarbons.Albertan feedlot operators in particular, will benefit from this research which may mean they can sell manure, often a ...
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