Two weeks ago, dead fish began appearing in the River Blackwater along a 40 km stretch between Banteer and Killavullen. Initial estimates suggested 400\u2013500 dead, with early speculation pointing to a natural algal or fungal cause.<\/p>\n
Today, two weeks later, that number has grown to 40\u201350 thousand, and investigations have ruled out natural causes. Instead, the official report describes it only as \u2018some irritant\u2019 being introduced into the environment.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry, but in what universe is it acceptable to explain away 50,000 dead fish as simply the result of \u2018an irritant\u2019?<\/p>\n
Someone knows what happened. But I suspect most of the community that lives beside, and depends on, this part of the Blackwater may never be told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two weeks ago, dead fish began appearing in the River Blackwater along a 40 km stretch between Banteer and Killavullen. Initial estimates suggested 400\u2013500 dead, with early speculation pointing to a natural algal or fungal cause. Today, two weeks later, that number has grown to 40\u201350 thousand, and investigations have ruled out natural causes. Instead, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3325,3323,3320,3326,3292,3327,3324,3319,3322,3321],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cleanwaternow","tag-ecologicaldisaster","tag-environmentalcrisis","tag-environmentaljustice","tag-fishkill","tag-pollutionawareness","tag-protectnature","tag-riverblackwater","tag-saveourrivers","tag-waterpollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}