MIKE MASTERSON: Arkansas’ top attraction Good and bad By Mike Masterson Posted: January 30, 2018 at 2:17 a.m. NWAOnline First, some good news. A USA Today readers’ poll has just named our Buffalo National River, the country’s first to be so designated, as the state’s best in its list of “Top Ten Arkansas […]
Dance with the one who brung ya By RICHARD MASON Special to the Democrat-Gazette NWAOnline The headline here was a comment made by legendary Texas coach Darrell Royal back in the SWC days when someone asked if he was going to throw the ball more. What does that have to […]
REX NELSON: A conservation ethos By Rex Nelson Posted: January 28, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline There are few predictions that can be made with confidence these days when it comes to national politics. In Arkansas, though, it’s safe to assume that Republican control of state government will continue for a […]
BRENDA BLAGG: A tempered victory Road for opponents to hog farm remains long By Brenda Blagg Posted: January 24, 2018 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline That highly controversial hog farm in the Buffalo National River’s watershed has been denied a state permit for its continued operation. It might seem time for jubilation, […]
Why ever permitted? I’m interested to see how the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) can adequately explain how in 2012 it so quickly, quietly and wrongheadedly granted a general operating permit to C&H Hog Farms in the sensitive Buffalo National River watershed without insisting on extensive geologic and groundwater […]
Buy out that factory NWAOnline Much has appeared in the pages of the Democrat-Gazette concerning the confined feeding site near Jasper. I do not call this a farm, for it does not embody what one traditionally envisions with that word. This is a factory operation, albeit with living creatures, but a factory […]
Maybe this solution NWAOnline How about this for a possible solution to the hog farm near the Buffalo River? Offer to trade out their hog-feeding permit for a medical marijuana grow permit, allow the pigs currently on site to grow out, gradually replacing their space with indoor marijuana grow operations. […]
Closure is only victory in fight against hog farm NWAOnline Thousands of letters have been sent to the governor of Arkansas and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality asking that the C&H hog factory farm in the Buffalo River watershed be denied their permit for operation. Now the State Regulation […]
Arkansas swine farm in Buffalo River watershed files appeal over denial of a permit By Bill Bowden Posted: January 20, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline The attorney for a Newton County hog farm has filed an appeal of the state’s decision to deny the farm’s permit to continue operating. William Waddell […]
Listen here: Arkansas Public Media Controversial C&H Hog Farm Gets A Favorable Hearing, Still Faces Steep Permit Denial Appeal By BOBBY AMPEZZAN The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission’s unanimous vote today not to enforce any immediate action following a decision earlier this month to deny C&H Hog Farm an operating […]
State ecology panel gives hog farm a reprieve By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: January 18, 2018 at 3:51 a.m.Updated: January 18, 2018 at 3:51 a.m. The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission issued on Wednesday a stay of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny C&H Hog Farms’ application to […]
Arkansas Times Pollution Control grants stay for continuation of hog farm operation Posted By Max Brantley on Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:06 PM Barry Haas reports from the meeting of the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission that it has granted a stay that will allow continued operation of the C and H hog farm at Mount […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Aftershocks Scant studies By Mike Masterson Posted: January 16, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline There have been plenty of aftershocks triggered by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s unexpected decision to deny C&H Hog Farms’ application for a revised operating permit. Many wondered on social media why the farrowing […]
Money isn’t everything By RICHARD MASON This article was published today at 1:57 a.m. Isn’t the overriding goal of a society to steadily improve the quality of life of its people? Everyone would agree with that statement, but the how-to’s are the sticky questions, and there are as many answers […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Permit denied Cynicism rises By Mike Masterson Posted: January 14, 2018 at 1:50 a.m. NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to reject a revised operating permit for C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed brought welcome surprise for many Arkansans. In appearing to finally move […]
Listen to the story here: Arkansas Public Media Embattled Buffalo River Industrial Swine Farm Denied New Operating Permit By JACQUELINE FROELICH The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality late Wednesday denied a new permit to C&H Hog Farms, the state’s largest industrial swine breeding facility to maintain operations in rural Newton County. […]
Arkansas hog farm seeks to stay state’s denial of operating permit Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline Attorneys for C&H Hog Farms have filed a request to stay the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny the farm a new operating permit to replace its expired one and effectively shut down the […]
State denies hog farm’s revised permit request By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has denied C&H Hog Farms’ application for a new operating permit in the Buffalo National River’s watershed. The decision ends 643 days — just more than 21 months — of waiting since C&H applied […]
Hog farm’s request for new permit languishing By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline Sunday was the 640th day since C&H Hog Farms applied for a new permit for its Mount Judea concentrated animal feeding operation, and it remains unclear when the farmers will learn the outcome of their request. C&H, which abuts a […]
2 states’ river feud clearing up; phosphorus still high in the Illinois, but levels dropping By Emily Walkenhors Once an avid camper and canoeist, Ed Brocksmith no longer visits the Illinois River in east Oklahoma. These days Brocksmith fishes for smallmouth bass and sand bass at Horseshoe Bend, located on the […]