MASTERSON ONLINE: Science on the Buffalo By Mike Masterson Posted: February 24, 2018 at 2:03 a.m. NWAOnline Those intent on leaving C&H Hog Farms in its precarious location along the Buffalo National River watershed are advocating science, rather than emotion, to make their case. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) […]
Arkansas hog farm in Buffalo River watershed ordered to manage manure Operation OK’d to remain open By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: February 19, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline Credit: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/EMILY WALKENHORSTFILE — Sanders Farm in Newton County contained as many as 3,200 hogs this summer, with some let loose to roam […]
Hog-farm appeal input OK’d; environmental groups allowed in as permit denial advances By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: February 14, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline m. Mitchell PE MasilunThe C&H Hog Farms’ operation, shown May 4, sits near a Buffalo River tributary in Newton County. Two environmental groups can intervene in a hog […]
Comments split on haze rule; utilities back state plan opposed by environmental groups By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: February 12, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline Utilities and a consumer group largely favor the state’s proposed changes in the way it will implement a federal rule to reduce haze, but environmental groups oppose […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Pandering to fear Sky’s not falling By Mike Masterson Posted: February 13, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline The predictable campaign aimed at frightening the good folks in and around Newton County into believing their farms and ranches are somehow in danger of closing remains in full swing politically. Unjustified […]
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/feb/13/sky-s-not-falling-20180213/ MIKE MASTERSON: Pandering to fear Sky’s not falling By Mike Masterson The predictable campaign aimed at frightening the good folks in and around Newton County into believing their farms and ranches are somehow in danger of closing remains in full swing politically. Unjustified fear, rather than scientifically justifiable concerns over […]
Two Marshall men in contest to fill vacant state House seat By John Moritz Posted: February 11, 2018 at 3:22 a.m. NWAOnline A special election for a rural state House district seat has at its center a controversial hog farm operation near the Buffalo River — and both Republicans in […]
MIKE MASTERSON: ‘Elitist’ Buffalo backers Morgan’s war By Mike Masterson Posted: February 6, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline Meanwhile, back on the front lines in the battle to save our beautiful Buffalo National River from contamination, Jan Morgan, the GOP gubernatorial challenger to fellow Republican Asa Hutchinson, has produced a Facebook […]
State agency’s comments on hog farm in Buffalo River watershed show little detail on ruling By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: February 4, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality denied C&H Hog Farms an operating permit in part because the company did not conduct a study on the flow […]
Panel on river outlines its goals Priorities include tourism increase By Emily Walkenhorst This article was published today at 2:36 a.m NWAOnline The state committee devoted to caring for the Buffalo River sent its first report to Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson this week, outlining the priorities of the committee and the […]
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 […]