This is an excerpt from Rex Nelson’s column in regard to trends in Arkansas. The excerpt we’ve reproduced here is in regard to the trend on conservation. Find Rex’s unabridged column here: NWAOnline Some trends that matter By Rex Nelson Posted: December 31, 2017 at 1:46 a.m. It was a […]
arkansasonline New plan makes recommendations to reduce pollution of 1 Arkansas river Draft has advice to preserve river By Emily Walkenhorst A draft of the Buffalo River Watershed Management Plan is complete. The plan, commissioned by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, makes numerous recommendations for reducing the amount of pollutants that […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Waitin’ on da judge By Mike Masterson Posted: December 30, 2017 at 2:29 a.m Count me among Arkansans wondering when, after almost four months so far, Circuit Judge John Putman will issue his findings in a case involving the controversial C&H Hog Farms at Mount Judea. Four weeks is […]
REX NELSON: Damming the state By Rex Nelson Posted: December 17, 2017 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline The floods were frequent and intense in Yell and Perry counties during the 1920s and 1930s. While historians focus on the effect the Great Flood of 1927 had on the eastern half of the state, […]
Arkansasonline Letter to Editor Force agency to work How many times have I heard that over-regulation is costing too much? Regulations don’t just happen. Usually they are in response to a situation revealing the need for them. When industries were disposing of factory waste by flushing it into the nearest […]
Smoke gets in their eyes House passes Westerman’s forest bill; Senate should say no By Fran Alexander Posted: December 5, 2017 at 1 a.m. This upside-down world we’re living in leaves us questioning not only what we are told, but distrustful that our facts might actually be fallacies. Up is down, […]
Buffalo River talk to spotlight algae By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: December 3, 2017 at 3:24 a.m. NWAOnline The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee will hold another meeting this week, according to a news release from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. The committee will hear a presentation from the Arkansas Harmful […]
NWAonline Another hog factory Leaking waste By Mike Masterson Just when I thought our state’s politicized environmental protection agency made the biggest debacle of its checkered history by allowing C&H Hog Farms into our karst-laden Buffalo National River watershed, I learn the leaking Sanders Farm began operating in the watershed during […]
‘Limited impact’ seen near hog farm By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: November 27, 2017 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline Researchers in the University of Arkansas System say the stream next to C&H Hog Farms in Newton County has phosphorous and nitrogen levels akin to other similar streams in northern Arkansas. In a research […]
Environment notebook By Emily Walkenhorst ‘Limited impact’ seen near hog farm Researchers in the University of Arkansas System say the stream next to C&H Hog Farms in Newton County has phosphorous and nitrogen levels akin to other similar streams in northern Arkansas. In a research letter published this fall in Agricultural & […]
Agency draws 17 remarks on water Analysis of rivers, lakes reassessed By Emily Walkenhorst Concerns about the Buffalo River and available data figured prominently in comments submitted to the state’s environmental agency about its amended plan to assess water bodies. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is reworking the guidelines it […]
Arkansasonline Clean up act by January, hog farm told Manure runoff a concern at Buffalo watershed site By Emily Walkenhorst HARRISON — A 2,400-hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed must clean up the manure on its property within the next 60 days, a Boone County circuit judge has ordered. Sanders […]
Arkansasonline MASTERSON ONLINE: Not hog-wild on the river By Mike Masterson Posted: November 11, 2017 at 1:56 a.m. Owners of C&H Hog Farms with the Brazilian meat processor JBS are hoping our state’s Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) will approve their request for yet another factory permit. Their proposed meat-growing plant […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 6, 2017 Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee Launches Website NORTH LITTLE ROCK —The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee (BBRAC) announces the launch of its website on Monday, November 6, 2017. BBRAC created an independent website to share relevant information regarding the preservation of the Buffalo River as […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Bottomland site’s neighbors leery of C&H; owners’ proposal By Emily Walkenhorst JOHNSON COUNTY — The owners of C&H Hog Farms and the international corporation that supplies the operation’s swine are planning to apply for a permit to operate another farm, this one in a flood-prone area just south […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Board is filled in on waste districts No way to avoid failure, state says By Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality officials are not aware of a way they could have prevented the financial collapse of a regional solid waste district or could prevent another one in […]
Arkansas Times https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/10/30/environmental-regulation-in-arkansas-toxic-divide Environmental regulation in Arkansas: toxic divide Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:57 AM BECKY KEOGH: Department of Environmental Quality director refuses to attend Pollution Control and Ecology Commission meeting. Belatedly, a note on a Sunday article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on the state’s $13 million bailout of a solid waste management district […]
nwaonline Buffalo River: Our national treasure By RICHARD MASON Special to the Democrat-Gazette Posted: October 29, 2017 at 2 a.m. Unless you have been living under a rock, you know Our National Treasure refers to the Buffalo River, our country’s first national river. The Buffalo is an old friend of […]
Months of delay Hog factory permit By Mike Masterson Posted: October 29, 2017 at 1:50 a.m. NWAOnline Call me cynical, skeptical, realistic or an unapologetic voice for the welfare and preservation of the only Buffalo National River we have. Whatever else I might be, I’m not the least surprised our state’s […]
Listen at KUAF Radio – Ozarks At Large Second Arkansas Industrial Hog Breeding CAFO Proposed in Johnson County Raises Stink By JACQUELINE FROELICH • OCT 27, 2017