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 […]
Arkansas hog farm’s foes sue to get their scientist on site for pollution research By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: August 25, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. Link Opponents of a large hog farm near the Buffalo National River have filed a federal lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the hog […]
arkansasonline Arkansas hog farm’s foes sue to get their scientist on site for pollution research By Emily Walkenhorst Opponents of a large hog farm near the Buffalo National River have filed a federal lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the hog farm, asking a judge to allow a […]
Three grandmothers join forces to appeal ADEQ permit August 24, 2016 Eureka Springs Independent Three Northwest Arkansas women have banded together to appeal a recent decision that would allow EC Farms to spray hog waste from C&H Hog Farms, Inc., onto additional pastures within the Buffalo River watershed. All three […]
Link Buffalo a harbor for birds; 96,341 acres get sanctuary label By Bill Bowden Posted: August 23, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. The Buffalo National River is officially an Important Bird Area. The announcement came Monday from the Arkansas Audubon Society. The national park is home — for at least part of […]
It can’t happen here? By Mike Masterson Posted: August 13, 2016 at 3:22 a.m. The nightmare scenario many fear when it comes to hog waste polluting our Buffalo River watershed (the country’s first national river) has been playing out in Illinois, where the Chicago Tribune reports swine factory waste polluted 67 miles of […]
Mitchell-Williams Law C & H Hog Farms, Inc.: National Park Service Request for Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission Review of Permit Modification By: Walter Wright Download PDF The United States Department of Interior National Park Service (“Park Service”) filed a July 29th appeal before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology […]
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Arkansasonline Hog farm’s foes want their expert at drilling By Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is reviewing a request by opponents of C&H Hog Farms in Newton County to reconsider who is allowed to observe a drilling project at the facility to determine whether hog manure ponds are […]
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