Publication:Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:Mar 23, 2013; Section:Northwest Arkansas; Page Number:9 Pollution panel: Improve noticesHog-farm permit in Buffalo River watershed prompts orderRYAN MCGEENEY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Commissioners with the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission ordered Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Director Teresa Marks on Friday to return in April with a […]
Our Buffalo and the hog farm Mike Masterson Those in Northwest Arkansas during the late 1990s likely recall the firestorm of public outcry to the state’s politicized decision (eventually reversed) to permit a landfill on one side of Hobbs Mountain near Durham. It was unbelievable to me when the public […]
http://www.wral.com/groups-opposing-plans-for-newton-county-hog-farm/12227474/ By RYAN McGEENEY, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette /Associated Press This article with a Fayetteville byline was picked up by AP and posted in Raleigh, NCn
KUAF / NPR 91.3 FM is scheduled to report about the CAFO on the Big Creek Tributary of the Buffalo National River Tuesday March 12th at 12 (NOON) CST on their daily news hour ‘Ozarks at Large’ and the broadcast will be repeated at 7:00PM. You can stream at KUAF.com […]
ADEQ has granted a permit for a 6503 swine farm (CAFO) near Big Creek, West of Mt. Judea, (Hwy. intersections 74/123) in Newton County, Arkansas. There will be 17 separate hog waste application fields, 11 of these are adjacent to Big Creek, a tributary to the Buffalo National River. Total […]
On Monday March 4th the Newton County Quorum Court heard testimony on the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) planned on Big Creek, a tributary just 5 miles from the Buffalo National River. NPS review of the supporting documentation found 45 areas of significant errors and omissions in the area of […]
The second “Battle for the Buffalo River” will have many chapters. We begin here and now. If we lose the battle to protect water quality, we lose it all. Our wild river will be dead. Nothing is more fundamental to the environment than water quality — it is the first issue. We […]