Arkansasonline Drill, baby, drill Conflicting aims By Mike Masterson I’ve never believed anyone can effectively serve two masters. That sets me to wondering about the mission of the Big Creek Research and Extension Team, working under auspices of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. How realistic is it that this […]
KUAF Radio – Ozarks At Large (Click to listen) ADEQ Calls for Independent Investigation of Buffalo River Hog Farm By JACQUELINE FROELICH The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will hire independent experts to assess whether C&H Hog Farms is leaking industrial swine waste from its sewage lagoons located within the Buffalo […]
Emily Walkenhorst New study to require drilling at hog farm NWA Online Article RELATED ARTICLE Environmental agency exec goes to AG State-hired scientists continued to state Friday that research shows no evidence that C&H Hog Farms is polluting its surrounding environment in the Buffalo River watershed, and the […]
Arkansas Times State plans independent study of impact of Buffalo River watershed hog farm Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:42 PM · GOOD NEWS: Richard Mays, a Heber Springs lawyer, reads statement from Buffalo River Coalition on state decision to further review how well waste ponds are preventing hog waste pollution […]
KUAR Public Radio (Click to Listen) Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to Oversee New Hog Farm Testing By ALDEN WALTERS • JUN 24, 2016 The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality announced that it will oversee new testing of an industrial hog farm near the Buffalo River. The new studies will collect data about […]
Arkansasnews.com ADEQ: Independent evaluation to be conducted at hog farm By John Lyon Arkansas News Bureau [email protected] LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will hire independent experts to study the liner integrity of manure ponds at a hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed, ADEQ director Becky […]
Democrat-Gazette Feedback keeps streaming in about that hog factory at Mount Judea. I’d asked readers if they were bored with the controversy. Here are edited examples of only a few responses from across Arkansas: Wincie says–“I’ve written previously about the possibility of turning our beautiful, national river into a ‘Hog […]
Arkansas Times Looking ahead on Buffalo River protection Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:54 AM Next week could be a big week in the ongoing fight to protect the Buffalo River from pollution from a factory hog feeding operation in Mount Judea next to a major tributary to the river. Tests so far have […]
Who is protecting us Hog wash! You may ask, “Why hasn’t the U of A Division of Agriculture’s Big Creek Research Extension Team reported or confirmed that hog-waste cesspools are leaking at C&H Hog Farms?” Like me, maybe you thought they’re there to safeguard the Buffalo National River, or that […]
Lovely County Citizen Letter to Editor Hogwash! Every day we see vehicles laden with canoes and kayaks destined for the Buffalo River. They spend time (and money) in Eureka Springs because of the loveliness of this place and we’re on the way to the loveliness of that. So to think […]
Power Line, Hog Farm Similar About three years ago, AEP/SWEPCO attempted to get regulatory approval to build a massive extra-high-voltage power line through the National Military Park at Pea Ridge, along the White River in Carroll County and through the outskirts of Eureka Springs. The proposal brought a huge outpouring […]
http://www.arkansasonline.com The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission in three weeks will hear the Big Creek Research and Extension Team attempt to rationalize why it feels no need to verify whether the wet substance discovered by electrical resistivity studies directly beneath a swine waste lagoon at C&H Hog Farms is […]
Eureka Springs Independent Independent Guestatorial: Ridding Northwest Arkansas of rats June 1, 2016 29 We feel sympathy for Gov. Asa Hutchinson whose private office next to the Governor’s Mansion has suffered a rat infestation so bad the governor is unable to use the office. Major renovations removing walls, beams and […]
Eureka Springs independent Hog farm opponents fed up with bureaucratic apathy June 1, 2016 Becky Gillette – As evidence of environmental contamination leading to human and animal health problems mounts, local opponents of the C&H 6,500-head hog factory in the Buffalo National River (BNR) watershed are fed up with the failure […]