If I get hired by a private firm, I hope that I can maintain my integrity... I'll be lucky to get hired at all, truth be told!

You'll do good, keep trying. 😀

If I can lighten the tone...
my fantasy is to be a "biostitute" for a palm oil plantation scheme. Wouldn't that be the life? 😆

In reality, back to palm protection. Thought I was done with this 😡
--Erik

Government funded research, though, is not the same as research done by a company in search of profits. If someone is doing research funded by oil-companies, and they specifically pick out abnormal trends or even falsify data (this does happen in legitimate research too, just look at the recent news about the link between vaccines and mental health, which was a major scandal), it is quite different than a government giving money to a research firm. There is a bias when you are getting paid by a company to specifically find x INSTEAD of y (or to pick certain data to make it look like you found x instead of y)... Rather than a contract which is awarded to find out whether there is a link between x and y.

I don't know how it is in Canada, but here any research done for eviro oil drilling is all over looked by the gov. All the research is looked over by the Gov. and is given the ok by the Gov. And if you do much work with the Gov and I am sure you will, you find out that nothing goes easy with the Gov. They have the last say and nothing passes without thier ok. Trust me.

If I can lighten the tone...
my fantasy is to be a "biostitute" for a palm oil plantation scheme. Wouldn't that be the life? 😆

--Erik

That would be awesome. 8)

Did I post this picture here yet? African oil-palm plantation in Costa Rica. I could not believe the extent of the oil palm plantations nor the amount of work that goes in to keeping the palms in good shape (pesticides, trimming, ensuring ther are no weeds around the base of the palms, etc. etc.).

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A palm fantasy is a sign you two are getting older 😆 😆

Thanks for posting that photo, Paul, the high density is frankly surprising.

The sheer number of "consumer products" that contain palm oil is staggering.
It's in everything but dog food...wait...I'd better read that label.

Barb

Paul,
no, I don't think you've put that photo up here yet.
This industry has not YET gotten to Belize.
I saw massive amounts of it in Nigeria when I lived there. Mind-boggling. Like corn in Iowa.
--Erik

God that is nice... is climate change so bad, concidering we can mabey grow stuff like that up here ?? 😛

A palm fantasy is a sign you two are getting older 😆 😆

Thanks for posting that photo, Paul, the high density is frankly surprising.

The sheer number of "consumer products" that contain palm oil is staggering.
It's in everything but dog food...wait...I'd better read that label.

Barb

I know!

I make candles with wax made from palms. None of the nasty fuel smell/soot like from regular petroleum candles.

Paul

candles with wax made from palms

Shhhhh...your palms will hear. 😆

Cool hobby, wall to wall candles at all the fairs here.

Jesse,
I have a dark dream that GMO oil palms will be developed that can grow near the oil refineries in Louisiana, Houston and Corpus. And then the same technology could be applied to the palms we grow for our hobby....
CT, can you share the directions for palm candles? That sounds like fun. --Erik

Erik,

Just a warning, the candle making can also be very addictive and expensive. Haha. But you can buy palm wax bulk from wholesalers. Here is a link to a company that sells to everyone, and they sell everthing needed to make candles. They also have all kinds of instructions for different types of candles and waxes. They sell everything you need to make candles. Good luck!

http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/

Paul