What transparency? About that plume By Mike Masterson Posted: December 20, 2016 at 2:16 a.m. NWAOnline The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance says the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (cough) didn’t allow nearly enough time to effectively analyze and respond to the Dec. 1 release of a 540-page report that was supposed […]
Harrison Daily Times Watershed alliance questions hog farm test results Posted: Saturday, December 17, 2016 12:00 pm Staff Report [email protected] | 0 comments The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance Inc. has reviewed the drilling report provided by Harbor Environmental that details results of the single hole that was drilled at C&H Hog Farm on Sept. […]
https://thefern.org/ag_insider/pig-cafos-influence-timing-human-flu-seasons-study-shows/ Pig CAFOs influence timing of human flu seasons, study shows By Maryn McKenna, December 15, 2016 The enormous numbers of animals concentrated in industrial pig farms are changing the pattern of flu seasons, by providing flu viruses a place to jump between humans and animals and multiply faster than they otherwise […]
Watershed meetings underway By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: December 12, 2016 at 2:29 a.m. NWAOnline MARSHALL — About 100 people attended the first public meeting of an 18-month process to create a watershed management plan for the Buffalo River last week. Many of them — farmers, neighbors and outsiders who love the […]
Earthjustice Fertile Grounds Blog POTENTIALLY LETHAL EMISSIONS GO UNREPORTED ON FACTORY FARMS By Jonathan Smith | Monday, December 12, 2016 In many rural communities across the country, longtime residents have suddenly found themselves surrounded by industrial livestock facilities. In these facilities, hundreds of cows, thousands of pigs or tens of thousands of […]
Threat unchanged NWAOnline Lest readers become confused by results coming out of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s (cough) results of the single hole drilled near one of the waste lagoons at C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed, please allow me to remind everyone. This was but […]
Arkansas Times Judge hears arguments in appeal of hog waste ‘land farming’ permit near Buffalo River Posted By Benjamin Hardy on Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:26 PM This morning, arguments for and against a permit to ‘land farm’ up to 6.7 million gallons of hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed were presented to Charles Moulton, an […]
Environment notebook By Emily Walkenhorst Group wants time with hog-farm data The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality should allow the public more time to submit questions regarding the test results on a project to detect whether a hog manure pond is leaking on a farm in Mount Judea, a member of […]
Many questions, no answers Not transparent By Mike Masterson t’s taken months for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) to finally announce to the public that the suspicious large plume and suspected fracture cited beneath the corner of a massive hog waste lagoon at C&H Hog Farms apparently contains nothing […]
Questions remain after report on C&H Hog Farms drilling study near the Buffalo River BY TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND 2016 NORTH LITTLE ROCK (TALK BUSINESS & POLITICS) — More research will be necessary to determine whether the waste storage ponds at C&H Hog Farms in Newton County have contaminated […]
KKUAR Radio Hog Farm Drilling Study Leaves More Questions Than Answers http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/hog-farm-drilling-study-presentation-leaves-more-questions-answers#stream/0 A consultant hired by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality presented findings at the agency’s headquarters Thursday of subsurface tests made at a controversial swine farm near the Buffalo National River. ADEQ and environmental advocates are still mulling […]
Arkansas Democrat- Gazette State agency gets hog-farm drilling results Neither contractor nor environmental officials draw conclusions from research By Emily Walkenhorst A contractor has turned over to the state the results of its tests to determine whether a hog farm in Mount Judea is leaking manure into the ground, but the […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Sides file in manure-use dispute; judge to decide whether Arkansas farmer must acquire new permit By Emily Walkenhorst Parties in a case appealing Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality-approved permit changes on a property in the Buffalo River watershed filed briefs this week. The parties argued over whether Ellis […]
KUAF Radio Mapping The Aquifers Of Arkansas by Jacqueline Froelich October 24, 2016 Listen here. A comprehensive guidebook, titled “The Aquifers of Arkansas” is available at no cost to the public. The manual maps and characterizes all the aquifers around the state. We go to the Kings River in Carroll […]
A new threat to the Buffalo Farm seeks permit to serve as disposal site for liquid hog waste. By Benjamin Hardy ArkTimes For over three years now, a fight has raged over C&H Hog Farm, a large concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Mt. Judea that houses some 6,500 swine near […]
Arkansasonline Hog-farm data’s release date set Agency to host Dec. 1 event on manure-leak tests’ results By Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality on Dec. 1 will receive the results of a drilling study conducted at C&H Hog Farms in Mount Judea, the department said Wednesday. The department also […]
Leading Investors Press Meat Producers to Tackle Water Pollution Risks Press Release, Nov. 21, 2016
Arkansas Times A new front in the war over hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed Posted By Benjamin Hardy on Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:29 PM A second farm in the Buffalo River watershed is now seeking to serve as a disposal site for potentially millions of gallons of liquid hog waste and has nearly obtained final legal […]
NWAonline Judge to rule on Arkansas farm’s altered permit, could spread 6.7 gallons of hog manure By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: November 17, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. An administrative law judge will decide on a motion to dismiss or a motion for summary judgment on an appeal of an environmental permit modification […]
Three grandmas persevere Buffalo hearing By Mike Masterson More than 100 showed up at the Don Nelms fine art gallery in Jasper last week to raise funds in support of our Buffalo National River. Some came from families who’ve lived five generations in the Buffalo watershed. Just as significant will be […]