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Mesquites Find New Outlet

Weekend April 28 2013

Mesquites were not native to Texas. But cattle consumed the mesquite beans and along the trail did what cattle do. The result was that this pesky tree bush is now all over West and South Texas. it sucks most of the sub surface water away from the grasses. And it is near impossible to erradicate. 

Now a Czech company, Green Heart Energy is harvesting mesquites. Green Heart mulches   the branches for shipping purposes. It turns out the mulch produces as an energy level between brown and black coal, with
Screen Shot 2013-04-28 at 10.11.32 AM ess pollution. Mesquites will be harvested within 100 miles of Corpus Christi. This keep transportation costs low to ship to Europe out of Port Corpus Christi. 

Green Heart will headquarter in San Antonio, no doubt for the airport. Green Heart plans to be in San Antonio and operating by June of this year. 

The irony is that Green Heart has to pay to harvest the mesquite that the ranchers would otherwise have had to pay to remove themselves. How is that for irony?

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  1. Gilbert Alvarez Avatar
    Gilbert Alvarez

    So they have to pay mesquite for what others were already paying to rid of it? Maybe they should have opened another company to remove mesquite and then buy it from them. A company owned by the same entity under a different name. Sort of like the alternative practice structure (APS) we learned about in class (ch.4).
    Then again, if they did this they would make Prof. Elam’s Rogues and Scalawag’s list.
    Can’t win them all 🙂

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