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Comment 20 for Agriculture Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-agriculture-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Joyce M
Last Name: Eden
Email Address: comment@sonic.net
Affiliation: West Valley Citizens Air Watch
Subject: Greenhouse Gas Sector 10. Agriculture
Comment:
GHG 10. Agriculture Composting of agricultural waste or use as mulch to reduce GHG. Eliminate both burning and rotting. A significant portion of the moneys generated by carbon fees should also go towards helping fund wind turbines on the many small farms in California and rural dwellings. Of the 76,000 farms and ranches in California, it is surprising and heartening to learn that nearly half are classified in the smallest category. It is an asset to California to have and keep these farms viable. So solar and wind subsidies to these small enterprises in the middle and long run as the wind and solar investments pay for themselves (which will happen sooner as energy prices from the grid rise), will help enable them to keep them going. While, “one megawatt of solar panels installed on land can take eight acres or more, a one megawatt wind turbine would need only one acre of land.”(California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops report, Chapter 3, p. 18) We are in support of carbon fees subsidizing small operations, but we do not support them for confined animal feeding operations (CAFOS). These are highly polluting and unhealthy operations, we do not want to encourage more of the same. They need to use their profits to pay to clean up their own pollution. Cleaner, smaller pasture-based operations should be subsidized and encouraged as a way to reduce emissions. Californians are more and more aware of where their food comes from and how it is treated and they care. Organic farms have lower GHG emissions and should also receive priority farm subsidies. The large operations are already over subsidized.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-04 12:15:05
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