Harvest invasive weed to create bio-diesel

I’ve read a lot in your online newspaper about the milfoil problem in Lake Pend Oreille. It seems to me that you ought to be talking about harvesting the weed. The bio-diesel you could make would power the harvester. The residue is good as mulch, compost or maybe animal feed.

I’m planning to move to the area. All I read is they are poisoning the lake … again. It’s bad enough there is a huge strata of toxins/poisons lying below the surface all through the Clark Fork to the mouth at Pend Oreille. It’s nice not to disturb that buried crap that was created in the 1800s and hope for a fix in the future.

Now it seems we can justify diluting massive quantities of herbicide and whatever else. It’s got to be killing other life; sounds moronic. You could spend the same amount of money harvesting. It would create new jobs and be self-sustaining. The remaining milfoil you can’t harvest would offer cover for bait fish. The bio-fuel made can power a city.

JOE KERBY

Lancaster, Ohio