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Conservationists float Buffalo agenda; Highlight hog farm dangers David Holsted/Staff Harrison Daily Times News media float the Buffalo National River near Gilbert on June 3. The float trip was part of a tour hosted by the National Parks Conservation Association in partnership with several local organizations and was meant to show […]
Hog farm protesters make Buffalo River floaters aware of pollution issuesnn Lovely County Citizen Wednesday, June 4, 2014 By Kathryn Lucariello, [email protected] NEWTON COUNTY — Those floating the Buffalo River over Memorial Day weekend got more than time away from work and responsibilities. Many of them also got an education. […]
Law and Odor: How to Take Down a Terrible-Smelling Hog Farm A couple of attorneys have sniffed out Big Pork’s legal weak spot. undefinedBy Bridget Huber Mother Jones May/June 2014 Issue From the stage in a packed, noisy auditorium in Fairfield, Iowa, Richard Middleton peers theatrically into the crowd. “I know we’ve […]
Back on the Buffalo By Mike Masterson Posted: May 25, 2014 at 2:05 a.m.nn It’s been a spell since I addressed the latest developments of that hog factory our state’s Department of Environmental Quality (cough) wrongheadedly permitted to spread untold gallons of raw waste across fields in our precious Buffalo […]
Arkansas residents concerned about waste, E. coli Outside Magazinen May 21, 2014n Arkansas’ Buffalo River was the first named national river in the United States, but its waters might be in danger. Locals and environmental groups were shocked at the end of 2013 when the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality […]
May 24, 2014 JASPER, AR (KNWA) – The Buffalo National River holds a special place in Arkansans’ hearts, and when a factory hog farm was built less than six miles away, concerns of contamination drew a huge outcry. Now, two teams of scientists are working to protect the water quality of […]
http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2014/04/27/manure-spraying-under-scrutiny/Environment, Health & WelfareManure spraying under scrutiny New method of dispersing waste can damage landscape, disrupt lives By Ron SeelyWisconsin Center for Investigative JournalismScott Murray did not want to leave the home in rural Juneau County where he and his family had lived for more than 20 years. But with […]
E. coli levels high in waters near hog farmBy Ryan McGeeneyPosted: May 7, 2014 at 4:40 a.m. The environmental research team tasked with collecting data near a Newton County hog farm released its second quarterly report late last week, noting several temporary elevations in bacterial levels in nearby waterways. The Big […]
NOTICE OF TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON CERTAIN PERMITSThe Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (APC&EC), pursuant to its authority under Arkansas Code Annotated, Sec. 8-4-202, et seq., has imposed a temporary moratorium on the issuance by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality of any new permits or coverage for medium or […]
Factory Farms Under Fire for “Manure Spraying”By Lindsay Abrams, Salon 02 May 14 no here’s what factory farms are up to these days: They’re using commercial sprinklers to spray animal manure over fields. That’s right undefined they are literally spewing a bunch of shit into the air. The Wisconsin Center […]
In The Bull’s Eye – Our Environment in Cross Hairs Teresa Turk Guest Writer letter in Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Report presented by Carol Bitting to APC&E Commission, April 25, 2014n Preliminary results of the dye tracing test on Big Creek are these; we initially injected dye into a dug well across the county road from C & H Hog Farm at 9:30 am Tuesday morning, April 22. We recovered […]
Panel halts new pig-farm permits in watershed By Ryan McGeeney This article was published April 26, 2014 at 4:38 a.m. · The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission issued a 180-day moratorium Friday on the issuance of permits for medium- and large-scale, swine animal-feeding operations and concentrated animal-feeding operations within […]
Arkansas Times Ozark Society and Arkansas Public Policy Panel pushing rule to ban new large swine farms in Buffalo River watershed Posted by David Ramsey on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission today granted petitions to begin the rulemaking process to prohibit […]
http://mikemastersonsmessenger.com/dangerous-e-coli-soars-along-big-creek/ By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. “E. coli soars in Big Creek By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. National Park Service water-quality tests conducted earlier this month along Big Creek near where it converges with the Buffalo National River showed harmful […]
A Letter to Cargill Northwest Arkansas Times By Mike Masterson Posted: April 12, 2014 at 2:41 a.m. While a single voice raised in the court of public opinion can prompt change, I’ve found even greater power from voices lifted in unison. Many outcries lifted in harmony can carry enormous influence when […]
Robert Cross: Buffalo River, like the Illinois, under attack Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 4:47 am, Thu Apr 10, 2014.By ROBERT CROSS nn Anyone who has recently floated northeast Oklahoma’s Illinois River very well knows it’s not the sparkling stream of generations past. The once clear, free-flowing […]
Hog Wild: Factory Farms Are Poisoning Iowa’s Drinking Water Millions of pigs are crammed into overcrowded barns all across the state, being fattened for slaughter while breeding superbugs all to feed China’s growing appetite for Spam. nn By Ted Genoways | Fri Mar. 21, 2014 3:00 AM PDT Tim Geers/Flickr […]
Are We Becoming China’s Factory Farm? US hog operations are feeding more than a billion people’s growing appetite for pork. China is in the midst of a love affair with pork. Its consumption of the stuff has nearly doubled since 1993 and just keeps rising. The Chinese currently eat […]