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BioCapture CO2 into Cattails, burn for net GHG Reducing Electricity, then Store CO2 in Geology
World's first net greenhouse gas reducing electricity?!

Revolutionary Mandates for Grant Rigby MLA?
Democratic, egalitarian & libertarian, scientific.

Carbon Sequestration into Soil via Enduring Glomalin?
Grow glomalin agronomy, plus new policy ideas to reduce GHG from farms.

Entrepreneurs & Investors Credit Unions, and The Profession of Business Lender
Search google: "productivity growth Rigby in Western Producer".

Canada & Manitoba 22 Legislations? e? ha?
Unique solutions for entrepreneur finance, schools and hospitals governance, disparity, diet, genders, climate, local defense, democracy, war prevention.

Democratize Public Education
Direct governance by parents and teachers together.

New Words: e, ha, h', h's, wan, wen
Efficient new pronouns to end irrelevant gender discrimination.

Pandemic-Immune-Economy: Humidity, Laws and Biology to prevent COVID-19 contagion
Order high humidity indoors to prevent viral aerosols. In big box store now, in tipi centuries ago.

Soil Salinity Hypotheses
15 scientific hypotheses to the question of how farming has caused soil salinity, and consequent solutions. "Responsible Grain" code of soil practice.
"Grandpa could spot harrow…" added April 2021

New Canadian Forces Human Rights Oath - to dishonour sexual assault
Canadian Forces should announce that they prevail for advancement of universal human rights.

Public Health Act vs Swine Lagoons
Links to scientific research on air pollution, existing law to impose liability for harming neighbours' health, and needed amendments.

Other Articles

"Agri-Family-Stability" - reforming Agri-Stability Agri-Invest farm programs.
Proposal to spare farm kids of hardship, save rural communities, and reduce government cost.

Health Care: Needs-based Canadian Funding. Remote Essential Services Funding. School tax reform.
Federal/provincial health care, and municipal essential services, serving all Canadians equitably through demographic and industrial changes.

Pipelines. GHG Levy/Rebate on PetroProducts, Cars. Tax-free Vegetation. No-GHG Zones Imports Brands.
Proposed resolutions to the Paris climate accord, to create market responsive initiatives at no cost for governments.

Blue-green Cyanobacteria … Lake Aeration Risks and Risks Mitigation. Science Links.
If lake aeration is implemented, then require biomass harvest of nutrients and toxins, fish eating moratorium and daily neurotoxins monitoring. Because it is the turbulence from air bubblers that kills cyanobacteria, not the oxygen … then aerate under the cyanobacteria blooms in stagnant coves.

First Past the 50% Post Ballot
Preference-ranked ballot would not alter but rather perfect our representative Canadian democracy.

Why Hide Cree Ancestry?
Why indigenous heritage was concealed, and need be no longer as Canada matures.




Deep-rooted perennial alfalfa can co-exist in annual grain crops, to prevent salinity and to sequester carbon into deep soil.

Top photos: Winnipeg Wine Festival 2025, blackcurrants, oat threshing.

B.Sc.Ag, M.Sc.Food. Food processing and marketing:

First true raspberry wine vinegar, featured at the Winnipeg Chefs' Assoc annual dinner. First saskatoon berry product export to Asia 1999 and in Japan Air's in-flight catalog. First winery in Manitoba 1999. First Prairie grown raspberry, blackcurrant, honey mead, grape, haskap wines sold in wine stores. Rigby Orchards raspberry wine was served as the dessert wine at Queen Elizabeth's golden jubilee banquet at Manitoba Legislature in 2002, followed by case orders to Rideau Hall.

Soil Salinity Prevention:

In 2026, the Rigby farm shall continue over two decades of the practices of no fall tillage, intact fall mulch, no fallow, no ionic nitrogen, no fungicides, and no non-selective herbicides to ensure thriving vegetation and soil everywhere. These disciplines succeeded in reversing the white salt salination that had appeared in low patches in the 1990's, first time since the ice age. That salinity had followed 3 decades of intensive chemical farming, after 8 decades of traditional grain farming since our family homesteaded in 1882. Now, except in the tracks on the lane, our farm is unique in the area, with again no bare saline patches anywhere.

Crop Sanitation:

Not using the herbicides designed to poison plant enzymes to inhibit the plant's immune response to pathogens, resulting in plant death due to pathogen invasion, avoids the buildup of pathogen populations in the soil and its consequence of next year crop disease epidemic. This discipline allows for frequent planting of similar crop species without need to rotate to avoid diseases.

Net Zero GHG Farming in 2026:

Not using any chemical nitrogen concentrates avoids soil bacteria utilizing the excess nitrogen for growth, via digesting ancient soil organic matter to obtain energy thru respiration, having the consequence of emitting the GHG carbon dioxide.

Not applying any nitrogen fertilizers also avoids any conversion of those chemicals into the very potent GHG nitrous oxide.

Grow a brassica oilseed in companion with a N-fixing pulse, or soybean without mycorrhizae-killing glyphosate, to supply oil as fuel for old diesel engines.

Add an annual clover, and italian ryegrass which grows vegetative in the summer and then also winter kills, as companions within annual grain crops. These continue growing in fall after crop harvest, the clover fixing nitrogen via symbiotic rhizobia, and the ryegrass increasing populations of free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This nitrogen supports next year's grain crop. Both also continue feeding associated mycorrhizae thru fall sequestering more carbon out of the atmosphere into enduring glomalin.

By avoiding carbon oxidative pulverizing tillage and thus wind erosion emission of GHG CO2, by not using the translocating to roots fungicides and glyphosate that are toxic to mycorrhizae, and by also growing mycorrhizae-associating crops every summer and into fall, the net sequestration of the GHG carbon dioxide into enduring glomalin proteins in soil is hastened, to help reduce excess climate warming.

Am signatory to Climate Change Canada's "Net Zero Challenge" for GHG.

Possibly the first Net GHG Sequestering Grain Farm!


- Grant Rigby copyright April 2026.