Arkansas Times Gov. Hutchinson announces a Buffalo River committee UPDATE Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:26 AM Gov. Asa Hutchinson called in press this morning to announce an interagency “action committee” to share information about the Buffalo River. He was joined by heads of five state departments of Environmental Quality, Health, Agriculture, […]
KUAF Public Radio Buffalo River Grandmothers Appeal Industrial Swine Waste Permit by Jacqueline Froelich September 28, 2016 Three grandmothers are appealing a new wastewater permit issued by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for a controversial industrial swine breeding facility on the Buffalo National River Watershed. Listen here
State-hired contractor completes testing for manure leaks at hog farm By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline State contractors have wrapped up their drilling project to test for hog manure leakage at C&H Hog Farms near the Buffalo National River, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Kelly Robinson said Tuesday. Harbor Environmental of Little […]
Eureka Springs Independent Independent Guestatorial: Wake up calls and tipping points September 28, 2016 What does it take to get our attention in this cluttered world? Usually it’s something that hits close to home, such as outsized transmission lines proposing to march across our Ozark landscape like a scar. More […]
Arkansasonline Health of our watersThe grades are inBy Mike Masterson If you didn’t visit the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance website last week and see the enormous infestation of algae blooming along a section of the country’s first national river, the pictures are still there as proof of the muck stretching […]
arkansasonline MIKE MASTERSON: Will it hit target?A single holeBy Mike Masterson The way-too-long-awaited drilling beneath raw waste lagoons at C&H Hog Farms in Newton County is finally to begin tomorrow and continue for a few days.Earlier disputes appear to be settled as our state is prepared to shell out $75,000 […]
[JBS is the multinational corporation which purchased Cargill’s swine division in 2015. C&H is now under contact with JBS] arkansasonline 1 more probe puts heat on JBS By GERSON FREITAS JR., TATIANA FREITAS and DENYSE GODOY BLOOOMBERG NEWS For investors in JBS SA, the world’s largest beef and poultry producer, […]
Arkansasonline Environment Notebook by Emily Walkenhorst Manure-leak tests to begin at hog farm Drilling to test for hog manure leakage is set to begin this week at C&H Hog Farms near Mount Judea in Newton County, according to an Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality news release. Little Rock-based Harbor Environmental […]
Fayetteville Free Weekly Issues Surrounding Buffalo River Watershed Continue By Nick Brothers | September 15, 2016 The issues surrounding the Buffalo National River and a nearby 6,500 hog farm near Mt. Judea, Ark. that was built in a fragile watershed environment keep coming. Following evidence found by the Buffalo River Watershed […]
Hatch Magazine, for the fly-fishing community Downstream This is not where you put a massive, manure-spewing industrial hog farm by Johnny Carrol Sain – Monday, Sep 12th, 2016 I’d lamented about rained-out local creek smallmouth fishing all summer long. High water had made fish tough to find and often posed a wading […]
Arkansasonline Off, and then onDrilling at the hog farmBy Mike Masterson Last week, the owners of the controversial hog factory in the Buffalo National River watershed changed their minds and refused to allow the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) to drill a test hole deep beneath one of the […]
Downstream People – A Documentary Help support this film by director Andy Sarjahani by following the link above where you can view the trailer for this revealing look at the environmental justice issues surrounding the C&H swine CAFO.
Arkansas Times Hog farm relents on drilling tests Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:36 AM Richard Mays, the Heber Springs lawyer, tells me that the C and H Hog Farm at Mount Judea has relented and will cooperate with a plan to do drilling to test whether hog waste from the factory […]
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Pig farm foes pull suit over drilling Link A federal judge has agreed to bar consultants from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and a group opposing a Newton County hog farm from observing drilling at the site next week to determine if waste is leaking into a tributary of […]
Arkansas Times Hog farm resisting testing for potential Buffalo River pollution Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:46 PM The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance this week reached a settlement with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality on testing for pollution from the C and H Hog farm at Mount Judea in the Buffalo River watershed. But […]
Buffalo River/ADEQ lawsuit settled LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT Posted: September 2, 2016 – 10:45pm The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance Inc. announced Friday it has settled a lawsuit, filed by it in U.S. District Court in Little Rock on Aug. 24, against the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality over the presence of observers […]