Massive Mexico Fish Killed Blamed On..Molasses.

http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/09/02/979366

(above article was translated by Google)

 

Molasses, isn’t that what caused the massive fish kill in Hawaii in September of last year??

 

A massive spill of thick molasses has turned Honolulu Harbor into a watery wasteland where thousands of fish have been suffocated — a disaster that officials say Mother Nature will have to clean up.

“Everything is dead. They’re all dead and they’re all just lying across the bottom — hundreds and hundreds, thousands.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/nature-will-have-clean-hawaii-molasses-leak-killed-thousands-fish-f8C11137030

But, it wasn’t actually the molasses that killed the fish, but the bacteria that fed off the sugar.

 

He said the the sugar in the molasses helps bacteria to breed, and the resulting blooms also sap the water of oxygen. The disruption to the delicate ecosystem could doom coral reefs in the harbor, said Eric Vetter, a professor of oceanography at Hawaii Pacific.

 

Truth is, man has been feeding bacteria molasses for years.

 

Cotter Corp. is preparing to brew a multimillion-gallon uranium cocktail in a mine shaft west of Denver — an innovation aimed at ending a threat to city water supplies.

If all goes well, mixing molasses and alcohol into a stream of filtered water pumped from the mine and discharged down Ralston Creek, and then re-injecting that mix into Cotter’s 2,000-foot-deep Schwartzwalder mine, will immobilize uranium tainting the creek.

Bacteria inside the mine will devour the molasses and dissolved uranium, creating solid uranium particles that will settle at the base of the mine, Cotter vice president John Hamrick said.

http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_22844964/cotter-brew-uranium-cocktail-clean-tainted-mine-west

 

Molasses is also used in Fracking.

 

Various experiments have been tried: the Lidsey oil well, for example, was fracked in September 1991 using as the fracturing agent microbial acid, otherwise known as Marmite, a yeast and vegetable extract. In theory, Marmite (and molasses) would be food for special bacteria, which would excrete acid to dissolve the carbonate rock. Unfortunately, it also fed the indigenous bacteria to produce hydrogen sulphide gas. The well as also fractured with a typical sand frack before the Marmite treatment, and is still producing today.

http://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2014/02/unlocking-the-earth-a-short-history-of-hydraulic-fracturing

 

Microbial injection is part of microbial enhanced oil recovery and is rarely used because of its higher cost and because the developments is not widely accepted. These microbes function either by partially digesting long hydrocarbon molecules, by generating biosurfactants, or by emitting carbon dioxide (which then functions as described in Gas injection above).^[13]

Three approaches have been used to achieve microbial injection. In the first approach, bacterial cultures mixed with a food source (a carbohydrate such as molasses is commonly used) are injected into the oil field. In the second approach, used since 1985,^[14] nutrients are injected into the ground to nurture existing microbial bodies; these nutrients cause the bacteria to increase production of the natural surfactants they normally use to metabolize crude oil underground.^[15] After the injected nutrients are consumed, the microbes go into near-shutdown mode, their exteriors become hydrophilic, and they migrate to the oil-water interface area, where they cause oil droplets to form from the larger oil mass, making the droplets more likely to migrate to the wellhead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery