Green | April 09, 2009 | 11 comments

Diesel Dope?? NO THANKS!!!

source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2008/10/02/after-hacker-creek/

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On May 14, 2008, an anonymous caller informed the Department of Fish and Game that he had "observed 20 to 30 pools of red diesel" in Hacker Creek. Though the caller was "unable to go in further due to possible respiratory problems," he was able to provide the agency with enough information that they were able to find the property by May 16.

Authorities quickly determined the source of the spill was an indoor marijuana grow powered by a diesel generator. Lt. John Wilcox of the California Dept of Fish and Game was among the first responders. He found two diesel tanks -- a large, 1,000 gallon storage tank used to fill a smaller one. Whether carelessly or through mechanical malfunction, the larger tank's fuel drained completely into the other tank. Of course, the lesser container overflowed.

"We don't know how much fuel was in either tank when the problem occurred," Wilcox explained. However, he emphasized, "there [was] a lot of fuel on the ground." The spill occurred on a rocky hillside, full of what the lieutenant called, "fractured shale." On this kind of ground, anything liquid quickly drains into the cracks. And unfortunately, the tanks were set up almost directly over a tributary of one of Southern Humboldt's larger streams -- Salmon Creek. Thus, the diesel swiftly made its way the 60 feet or so into the water of Hacker Creek, below. Downstream landowners were advised to pull their intake pipes and not use water from the creek. Originally, this prohibition reached partway into Salmon Creek itself, but eventually was restricted to Hacker Creek proper.

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11 comments // Diesel Dope?? NO THANKS!!!

  • reddog420
  • covelogibbs
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    • Check out these MAY 2009 High Times articles:

      page 40 "Weeditopia Emerging"

      page 46 "Communities Against Pot Pollution"

      This link will take you to a free online sample edition of the MAY 2009 High Times.

    • 3 years ago
  • sickinjersey
  • covelogibbs
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    • I agree, "crank" is the worst and most dangerous illegal drug around. I would rather live in a community growing "diesel dope" than in one brewing bathtub crank any day of the week. Unfortunately, speed is very easy to make, with the finished product being very small with no smell, and thus easy to hide and transport at will.

      Cannabis should be legal. Less people would be doing crank, that's almost for sure. Classifying methamphetamine and heroine with marijuana is a travesty of justice. Telling America's youth that marijuana is just as dangerous as hard drugs is very dangerous and potentially deadly. All this while pushing alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals is downright negligent.

      However nice the marijuana turns out, there is an environmental impact from growing with a diesel generator, or indoors on the grid.

      Some people say that "medical grade" herb cannot be grown without resorting to indoor, but I disagree. It is true that in nature, there will be cloudy or rainy days that will effect the quality of the crop, and that in indoor gardens, the "sun always shines." If your pain is such that you need the most powerful medicine, there is always concentrated cannabis or eating the herb.

      The real sun is where MaryJane wants to grow anyway, so less growers would move inside to avoid detection if it were legal. If a grower does want to grow using electricity, what about the idea of having to go grid-tied or do some kind of carbon offsetting or credits? What if you just wanted to grow basil and tomatoes, would you still have to buy the same amount of carbon credits?

      If all of our electricity were appropriately generated this might be a moot point.

      Is this conversation completely ridiculous when you consider that, according to The New York Times,

      "...concrete is environmentally ugly. The manufacturing of Portland cement is responsible for about 5 percent of human-caused emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide."

      I just think every little bit counts and that ultimately, we are all down stream.

    • 3 years ago
  • ras_menelik
  • covelogibbs
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    • Varieties, such as "diesel" and "sour diesel," are particular strains of cannabis, which have nothing to do with the way they were grown. For example, "diesel" could be grown just fine in the sunshine. :)

    • 3 years ago
  • TaGgInUrBlOcKuP
  • simplecj
  • wirehedd
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    • If it comes from Humboldt County it's usually phenomenal. This county also happens to be where most of the blue and purple cannabis people see nowadays originally came from through selective breeding projects. :)

    • 3 years ago
  • plesntcreature
  • covelogibbs
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    • The troubles associated with marijuana grown with the use of fossil fuel were covered by SoHum blogger Kym Kemp in a Journal story titled “After Hacker Creek.” (see above linked article)

      Dec. 8, 2008

      The diesel dope issue hits the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors tomorrow as a group of concerned citizens led by Robert “The Man Who Walks in the Woods” Sutherland lay things out in a PowerPoint presentation.

      Here’s Robert’s press release announcement and some of the photos they’ll be showing the Supes.

      Selected photo is of Hacker Creek with "red diesel" spill.

    • 3 years ago
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