By Miguel Llanos, NBC NewsA 3,800-square-mile algae bloom in the Pacific Ocean off Canada's British Columbia has been traced to a California businessman who promised a local tribe he could help their salmon runs by fertilizing the ocean with iron.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The Guardian of London (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-iron-fertilisation-geoengineering) reported that Russ George acknowledged that in July his company, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. (http://www.hsrc1.com/), had dropped around 100 tons of ore with traces of iron, calling it the "most substantial ocean restoration project in history."
"We've gathered data targeting all the possible fears that have been raised" about ocean fertilization, George reportedly added. "And the news is good news, all around, for the planet."
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