Blackford County CAFO
On September 9th, Andy Miller, the commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, sent a letter to Blackford County officials, demanding to know the County’s position on the state’s plan to expand industrial farming operations around the state. This letter came after the County’s BZA declined to issue an exception to permit a dairy CAFO.
The Star Press has updated coverage today:
Fred Walker, a Blackford County commissioner, said commissioners planned to discuss the letter at their meeting on Monday.“It upsets me that his letter gives us until Sept. 30 to respond and they leaked it to the press before we could respond,” Walker said. “We believe he (Miller) has been misinformed about what’s going on up here, and it’s inappropriate to conclude that we have not supported CAFOs.”
The article also note:
Several days after Miller sent the letter, it was reported in The Star Press that a corporation had filed for an air pollution control permit to build a $150 million ethanol plant in Blackford County.
March 22nd, 2006 06:15
[...] The Toll Road targets are obvious. Woodruff has looked like a dead-man walking since he cast the deciding vote for Daylight Saving Time after promising his west-Indiana constituents he wouldn’t. I’ll speculate maybe Harris is vulnerable because of the CAFO kerfuffle in Blackford County where the Daniels administration has put pressure on county officials who had concerns about the impact of a confined feeding dairy operation. I don’t actually know if that’s the case, and I don’t know why, particularly, Smith and Bright might be deemed vulnerable. This entry is filed under Indiana Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply [...]