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waste, 3 Rivers is engaged in several
“ In our gas digestion process, we other projects aimed at limiting the produce renewable natural gas and impact of agricultural operations on capture the nutrients that would typically bodies of water across the US.“ Presently, wash out into the ocean. We can separate, we are working on projects in the sugar crystallize, and dry these phosphates, cane sector. In the US, we face a serious which are in high demand as fertilizers in environmental issue related to oceanic other parts of the country where they are red tides, a harmful phenomenon rather expensive. The naturally occurring caused by algal blooms that take much red tides primarily affect Florida and, needed oxygen out of the water, killing to a lesser extent, Louisiana. To prevent fish and shellfish. When these blooms this issue, we are currently working on a occur just offshore, people cannot go solution for sugar cane fields in Louisiana, to the beach as they can cause health and we aim to do the same thing in Florida, issues. Red tides arise from two primary because we believe that we could interrupt factors: rising water temperatures and the flow of phosphates into the ocean. phosphates from agriculture, some of“ While everybody points fingers at which are from agricultural practices the oil and gas industry for its impact on associated with sugarcane crops, with the environment, many people do not phosphate getting into the ocean. It is realize that most environmental work and important to note that farmers are not advancements taking place in the world at fault; this problem has developed over are often driven by professionals coming time and continues to escalate. from that sector. Within our team, we
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