http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2005/09/sussex-gold-found-and-bernard-lords.html
David R. Amos
said...
Here is the real reason Hamm quit it is at the very bottom of this
particular blog. This email is also why the dudes in Fredericton are so
nervous these days. Simply put I'm back. I can only wonder how long this
Blog will remain before Chucky Leblanc deletes it in order to cover up
the public corruption he secretly supports.
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.
I had to respond to this. Brian Gaudet should have read my last
email before bouncing it back to me with his insults. I was already
gone. At least this Frenchman, sounds more like a proper Maritimer. Yet
if he was going to spout off to me he should have been man enough to say
it front of the rest of you too. Let us all see if he has truly Billy
Gates blocking me after trying to pick a fight with me. Yahoo will tell
the tale on that. That said, I do admire that he defends his wife's name
and is willing to fight about it even if he does not understand the
issues. That is honourable but dumb. I was confused that the email
address said two mech so I suspect that he may be a mechanic just like
me and not any sort of lawyer or newsman either. I like that as well.
It seems he has been raised on the four F's just like me. Only
thing is I ain't hiding behind an electronic mask like he said. If he
had bothered to read I had even inserted my phone number. I will be
coming to Sackville very soon but by then your protests will likely be
over and I would be met with the indifference that I was faced with last
year. So I will bother you all no more even though I will be forwarding
and blogging this email in many other places. It is the same methods
that the locked out people employed to bring CBC to the table. they have
no right to put down my actions against them. I do not wish to speak to
the CBC or the employees about a lawsuit I am filing against the Crown
because of their actions against me. That would be kinda dumb even for a
Maritimer don't you think? I would rather have spoken to pissed off
people CBC had locked out of work. It made far more sense to me.
I have many friends in the Sackville area. Perhaps Frenchy should ask
around about me to some mechanics he may know to see if most folks who
know me well think me to be a liar. He should not rely on CBC to find
out the truth about me. To offset any confrontations from people he did
not know, Frenchy should have told his wife not to use his email
address. If he did not want to be bothered by people she and her other
CBC buddies had ignored last year during the last federal election he
should have told me out of the gate that he was not his wife. She could
have gotten her own hotmail account like my eleven year old in Amherst
just did. Instead she used her husband's email to tell the world on the
internet that she was actively protesting being out of work? She was
soliticiting our support for her plight but in the next electronic
breath her husband proves that they care about nobody else? CBC and all
of its reporters are the bullshitters in this matter not me. They are
self centered greedy bastards also.
CBC does have a mandate to
give all people running for a seat in Parliament equal time not just the
people the reporters want to win. That is the law and their mandate as a
Crown Corp. In case you are reading this Brian Gaudet talk tough all
you wish. I don't scare easy because I am too dumb to know fear. Ask the
Secret Service who tried to take me away to Cuba over two years ago or
the jailers who threw me in the hole last year because I was pretty
pissed off if I am a chickenshit or not. Because I display no fear
people label me as crazy in order to make themselves feel better about
their own cowardice. I have walked the walk for far too long to be
frightened by anyone now. I live each day as my last. Only integrity
surprises me now. It is a rare thing to find combined with age and
power.
If you don't believe me or think I am harrassing you in
any way why not call the RCMP or sue me French?. Bring along this email
to prove how I have offended you. I will love to argue the Crown about
it in court. I will bring along what I served upon the CBC in Saint John
while I was running for Parliament last year. It should make for an
interesting argument that CBC will not report. Their lawyers have not
answered me yet but many others have and know tha CBC got my material
too. It appears that i must sue to get an answer as to why the CBC
ignored its mandate.
Frenchy I would prefer to meet your
lawyer face to face in court in a civil lawsuit rather than duke it out
on the street with you and inspire another criminal matter. Besides I
have too much to lose even if I won such a senseless thing in court or
in the street. You are another ordinary asshole like me. There is no
need to battle with you. I am getting too old for such nonsense now but I
will certainly defend myself from anyone. If you wish to pursue the
matter be forewarned that I don't fight fair anymore. If perchance I
lose I am very big on getting even. My battles are never over until that
happens. What I teach my son also holds true for me. I tell him to
never back down from anyone because it is too expensivee to one's own
pride and you will have to run from bullies your whole life. In truth a
brawl proves nothing at all except how dumb we can be. Nevertheless like
hockey fighting can be a great sport sometimes. Confused? Me too. what
do you teach your son Frenchy?
Like you Frenchy I prefer face to
face confrontations but only in front of many witnesses these days so
that nobody can accuse me of saying or doing anything wrong. If you wish
to fight, call the cops first and announce your intentions then all
that I ask of you is that you throw the first swing so that my actions
will be in defence. Is that OK with you Frenchy??????
You are
right about one thing though. Nobody cares. However it is not stupid of
me to piss people off. It is merely one of those things I do that nobody
seems to appreciate. It works like a charm to get others to prove to me
that they are assholes. The big difference between an asshole like me
and an asshole like you is that I care about what happens to others. You
don't. If you disagree why not help another Maritimer by the name of
Byron Prior. He needs all the help he can get. I don't. You don't even
have to Google him. Read the portion of his his web site that was at the
bottom of the second email I sent to you today. If you have any heart
in you at all pick up the phone and call him to see if he is for real
for yourself. I did the best I could to help him with his litigation
against Billy Matthews and all his Newfy buddies while your wife's buddy
Ian Hannamansing who is from Sackville only called Byron a liar while
he was doing his big special in Newfoundland about justice last year.
If my memory of what Byron said about the show that night is
correct, your wife's fellow CBC workers carefully edited Byron from any
of their tapes shown on TV while the Attorney General Tommy Marshall's
son sat right by his side and made it on TV. In my opinion the CBC dudes
in Newfoundland should all be fired ASAP for that reason alone. That
fact has nothing to do with me and my concerns whatsoever. All Canadians
were denied the opportunity to hear what Byron Prior had to say about
how justice is being served in the Maritimes. It should make no
difference at all whether or not Hannamansing thought of Byron a lair.
We all had the right to hear what he had to say after CBC had invited
the public they work for to speak on TV. How else can we decide the
truth about anything if we do not hear from all sides? This is a
Democracy isn't it is free speech a myth on public TV? CBC does not have
the right to to be judge and jury simply because they have the ability
to edit tapes.
Get it Frenchy???????????
Here is my
phone number again Frenchy 506 434 1379 if you wish to ask me any
questions. I will not bother to look up yours. I do not care about you
think anymore if you don't wish to speak man to man. I will do as you
requested and merely leave you all alone just like I said in the last
email I ever intended to send to any of the CBC crowd. Now that they are
comfortably back at work editing the truth for Paul Martin's benefit
not ours, I know it would be fruitless to approach them anymore.
Before you give me a call Frenchy, perhaps you should review email
that you bounced back to me. For your education here is my face as well
and an article about me in a local paper then ask yourself why the CBC
reporters ignored an interesting little circus.
I ain't hiding
and I ain't a lair. I am just another Maritime asshole just like you
Frenchy. You should understand me as being a simple, sincere and serious
asshole even if you do not believe that I am a man with some pretty
serious beefs against the corrupt justice system and the CBC that helps
it in its malice towards us all. It is late and my rambling rant is
over. As I wrote this I kept remmbering my encounters with the Frenchy
from the far side of my hometown of Dorchester last year. His name is
Charles LeBlanc. Man that bastard is full of hot air. I had to get this
off my chest. I will sleep better with you dismissed from my mind too.
Good luck with your own conscience from now on. Say Hey to Chucky
Leblanc for me will ya> Like you he is blocking my emails after
sending me a flood of them last year. I will lay odds your wife knows of
him. The Maritimes ain't that big a place and he is quite a bragger.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.com
> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
> > > > Subject: David Amos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Lisa,
> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he
> > became
> > > an
> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in our
> > > > federal
> > > > > election that was held June 28.
> > > > >
> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
> > > Fundy-Royal).
> > > > I
> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates. That
> > > story
> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story, written
> > by
> > > > one
> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report on
> the
> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the election.
> > The
> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a photo
> > taken
> > > by
> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the photo
> > that
> > > > > ran, but this one is very similar.
> > > > >
> > > > > Gisele McKnight
> > > > > editor A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate
2.JPG
> > > > > Kings County Record
> > > > > Sussex, New Brunswick
> > > > > Canada
> > > > > 506-433-1070
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers
at the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over
200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as they chose their
seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn. Supporters of
Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue chairs on the
right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent left. There
were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty, mixed
throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards the
back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record and
Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
Staying true to party platforms for
the most part, candidates responded to questions about the gun registry,
same sex marriage, the exodus of young people from the Maritimes and
regulated gas prices. Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly
challenging each other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’
party leaders. Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise
responses to the questions while Amos provided some food for thought and
a bit of comic relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun,"
Amos said in response to the question of thenational gun registry.
"Nobody's getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but well
intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am on,
I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better places for
the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters shouldn't
have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
The
gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At one
point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in front of
Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the voting record
of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to Herron, Harper
voted in favour of the registry on the first and second readings of the
bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at final count,"
Moore said. "We needa government with courage to register sex offenders
rather than register the property of law abiding citizens."
The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged Armstrong
to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time, anyplace,"
Armstrong responded.
As the crowd made its way out of the
building following the debate, candidates worked the room. They shook
hands with well-wishers and fielded questions from spectators-all part
of the decision-making process for the June 28 vote.
Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his favourite possessions—motorcycles.
McKnight/KCR
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He
has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a
beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings
to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The
independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and
two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running
for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians.
"I’ve
become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said.
"The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
The
journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in 1987. He
woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he needed to
change his life.
"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that sometimes in midlife."
So
Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
Panhead motorcycle.
"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three
years, to be exact) experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said.
"This is how you renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can,
you never ask for anything, but you take what they offer."
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs and conversation all over North America.
Since
he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son and a
daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls himself.
He
also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
"But
I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said. "It’s
alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
"I
didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
"I
won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s not
about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
What he’s
fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the
exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a
few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs
– fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he
said. "I’m death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say
chuck it (NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free
Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada,
the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
"There
are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me, especially young
people, to pay attention and exercise their right. Don’t necessarily
vote for me, but vote."
Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have your X by his name.
"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and say, ‘what the hell.’"
Brian Gaudet twomech@nb.sympatico.ca wrote:
From: "Brian Gaudet" twomech@nb.sympatico.ca
To: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: This is who I am Bobby Baby. Read it and weep.
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:41:47 -0300
Listen,
asshole.......This is not Suzanne's email it is her husband. I
certainly don't care for the remarks that you are making about her.
Having said that, I asked you once politely to remove us from your list.
I will have blocked you by now, so I will not have to put up with your
e-mails or bullshit any longer...................But I am not one for
emails anyway.........I prefer to talk face to face............So you
can't hide behind this electronic mask.............Do You get
it???????????? I would not hide from a pathetic waste of oxygen such as
you antway. People just don't
care............Understand............No body cares about you and your
stupidity..................Go AWAY...........
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/oil-wellfield-moncton-shutdown-orlen-1.6568078
Oil and gas wellfield that fuelled Moncton to be shut down
Company seeking environmental approval to decommission 44 oil and gas wells in the Moncton region
ORLEN Upstream Canada Ltd. has filed an environmental impact assessment to decommission 44 oil and gas wells, some that still produce crude oil sent to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John.
The request seeks to plug the wells and remediate the area around the wellheads in southeastern New Brunswick.
"Combined with rising crude oil prices and a move towards decarbonizing the Canadian economy, ORLEN has decided to concentrate its exploration and development operations to higher yield, more diverse oil and gas reserves in Western Canada and around the world and to decommission low producing or unviable operations," says a 228-page document filed this summer by Dillon Consulting.
No one from the company's Canadian operations or its parent company based in Poland provided interviews requested at the start and end of August.
Examples of inactive oil and gas wellheads that would be decommissioned
as part of the plan to shut down the wellfield. (Dillon Consulting)
ORLEN is one of the few companies extracting oil and gas in the province. Headwater Exploration, previously known as Corridor Resources, has a natural gas well east of Sussex that became a focal point in the debate about shale gas about a decade ago.
ORLEN's plan would close a chapter on New Brunswick's early hydrocarbon industry.
The document filed with the province's Department of the Environment and Local Government at the end of July lays out a history of the wellfield the company is seeking to decommission.
It says initial exploration in New Brunswick began in 1858 with shallow wells in the Memramcook area on the east side of the Petitcodiac River, but work stopped when vast reserves were discovered in Pennsylvania the following year.
Exploration of the Stoney Creek portion of the wellfield, on the west side of the Petitcodiac, began in 1908 and it produced natural gas until 1991.
Orange
dots mark the locations of oil and gas wells that would be
decommissioned if the province gives approval for the work proposed to
wrap up by 2027. (Dillon Consulting)
The wellfield supplied natural gas to nearby Hillsborough and north to Moncton through a 14-kilometre pipeline.
Sophie Cormier, Moncton's director of culture and heritage, said it was a significant selling point for the city.
"The city used to advertise itself as the city with natural gas," Cormier said. "Moncton was the only city in the east that had a gas field and that had production that they were able to sell."
Cormier said the availability of gas to heat and light homes and businesses drew industry to the area. One of the biggest customers was the Canadian Government Railways workshops, the nationalized railway headquartered in Moncton that, according to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, later became Canadian National (CN) Railway.
A photo from about 1910 provided by the Albert County Museum of one of
the wells in the Stoney Creek area. (Albert County Museum/Submitted)
A 1994 Times-Transcript newspaper story recounts that during the First World War, "underground mains provided citizens with this wonderfully cheap form of energy.
"Considering the ever increasing war-time demand for coal and wood, Moncton became known as 'the city with natural gas.'"
The story said there were more than 3,100 customers by 1917.
After the war, however, the story notes estimates of the natural gas reserves were overestimated and supply needed to be curtailed.
Eventually commercial customers were cut off, and by the 1950s "the ever-diminishing supply and ever-increasing prices had swept aside past dreams of cheap, limitless energy."
"The dream of making it like Pittsburgh or other cities that really relied on gas for their industry was just not possible," Cormier said.
An active gas well in the Stoney Creek area slated to be decommissioned. (Dillon Consulting)
Later, Irving Oil held a lease on the wellfield. Between 2005 and 2008, Irving decommissioned 42 wells. Some were later reactivated by Contact Exploration Inc., which also drilled new wells and built a storage facility in Stoney Creek.
The last well was drilled in 2010. In 2014, Contact merged with another to form Kicking Horse Energy Inc. ORLEN bought that company the following year.
"ORLEN has indicated their desire to decommission the wells that remain in ORLEN's care, and to eventually completely exit the region," the document states.
The primary wellfield with 17 active and 18 inactive wells is in Stoney Creek, several kilometres south of Moncton. Five inactive wells are farther south near Hillsborough.
Two inactive wells are on the east side of the Petitcodiac River near Memramcook, and two other inactive wells are in Monteagle, north of Salisbury.
Crude trucked to Irving refinery
All of the wells are on privately owned land. Those landowners received lease payments because of the wells.
Crude oil from the active wells is collected at the storage site before being trucked to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John.
Crude oil is stored in holding tanks in Stoney Creek before being
trucked to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John. (Dillion Consulting)
"The economic viability of the remaining wells for production is limited in the current and expected future economic climate," the environmental impact assessment document states.
"There is simply insufficient production in the active wells, and limited potential for additional development, to take advantage of economies of scale at this wellfield that are required for a stable and viable operation in an ever-changing and volatile global oil and gas market."
The document says decommissioning would involve placing cement plugs at various depths in the wells, capping the casing and removing any surface infrastructure. Any contaminated soil from the well sites would be removed and sent to an approved disposal facility.
The document says if approval is granted, work is expected to start this year and be complete by 2027.
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It's a dagum shame to shut them down.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/blue-green-algae-nb-1.6569891
Blue-green algae bloom detected in Belleisle Bay
The bloom has high levels of anatoxin-a, which is also known as 'very fast death factor'
A water test on Monday confirmed high levels of anatoxin-a, at 2.5 parts per billion, along the Hatfield Point Trail behind the cemetery. Colin Forsythe, the executive director of the non-profit group, said there should be no trace of the toxin in a normal reading.
- 'Unbelievably visible' blue-green algae cropping up in more N.B. waterways
- Blue-green algae on the rise in St. John River, says UNB researcher
Forsythe said anatoxin-a is also known as "very fast death factor."
If consumed, he said it can have a serious impact on the central nervous system.
"In significant quantities the toxin can kill you in minutes of respiratory paralysis," he said. "So if you ingested too much of it, you'd lose your coordination, have muscle spasms, convulsions, and eventually you wouldn't be able to breathe."
Forsythe said he doesn't know anyone locally who has died from anatoxin-a, but it has been killed several dogs in the province.
Colin
Forsythe, the executive director of the Belleisle Watershed Coalition,
said climate change is contributing to changes that create the perfect
environment for cyanobacteria to bloom. (Katie Hartai/CBC)
Veterinarian Shanna-Lynn Neily at the Kennebecasis Valley Animal Hospital said ingesting the toxin can quickly become life-threatening for dogs.
"In some cases, if they've had very small amounts ... with rapid intervention they can do quite well, but usually if they've had higher doses, it's within a few hours that they can go into shock and they can die," she said.
Neily recommends pet owners avoid areas known to have cyanobacteria blooms.
"If you know there's an algae bloom in the area, don't take your animal to that water source. It's just it's not worth it to risk it," she said. "Go to water sources that we know are safe."
If a pet does consume cyanobacteria, Neily said it's important to get them to a veterinarian as quickly as possible.
More toxic than July's bloom
Forsythe said most often, cyanobacteria blooms in New Brunswick appear on the surface and look like little green flecks of paint. The current bloom however, is benthic, meaning it's along the bottom of the riverbed. He said it looks like clumps of dark green, brown, or even black vegetation that will become lighter in colour once it washes ashore and dries.
These mats are about half a kilometre away from where another cyanobacterial bloom was confirmed by the coalition in July. This is the only new cyanobacteria bloom reported by the province in 2022.
The current cyanobacteria bloom is benthic, meaning it’s along the bottom of the riverbed. (Submitted by Colin Forsythe)
Forsythe said the July bloom contained different toxins.
"We did not detect anatoxin-a there. We detected low levels of a toxin called microcystin," he said. "That would likely not be fatal to any adults, but potentially pets. Most adults would experience nausea, gastrointestinal pain, stuff like that."
Anatoxin-a is fairly rare in New Brunswick at this time, but Forsythe expects it will become more common.
"Human-induced climate change … is allowing us to have warmer temperatures and more frequent intense rain events that help to create the perfect environment for cyanobacteria blooms," he said.
Forsythe said the Belleisle Watershed Coalition will continue to monitor the Hatfield Point water until it tests negative.
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"Many studies have found a natural resistance of cyanobacteria and blue-green algae to glyphosate in the sense that they're not affected by the presence of glyphosate, and they can actually use glyphosate as a resource to proliferate,"
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