A CAFO Delayed, A CAFO Defeated?
News from Justin Schneider with the Herald Bulletin:
A lawyer representing Elwood Concerned Citizens announced Tuesday that the group had appealed the permit of a local farmer to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) during a meeting of the Madison County Board of Zoning Appeals.
That information was enough for the board to pass a motion of continuance on the matter until the July 25 meeting.
Link.
This is the 8,000 pig CAFO proposed by farmer Rick Jarrett in Elwood, later modified to 4,000 in response to critics. According to the Madison County BZA attorney, this is the 3,724th appeal filed with IDEM in 2006. Madison county is a rarity in that it has independent local standards for CAFO’s including minimum acreage requirements and set backs.
On other CAFO news, Grant County has followed through and set up a committee to study whether to impose local standards, and "activist" John Street, who opposed the placement of a CAFO in an area with abandoned oil wells, was one of the appointees. Link (Chronicle-Tribune).
Over in CAFO science, the Agronomy Journal reports on a study that focused on alternative uses of CAFO byproducts (manure) as CAFO’s have generated "excess amounts of manure." Link. The solution, put it on wheat fields.
June 29th, 2006 14:49
[...] Kpaul over at the Muncie Free Press is getting into full swing in his coverage of CAFO’s in East Central Indiana. Applying his journalistic talents, he showed up at the recent Monroe County BZA meeting with audio and video recorders in hand. Today he posted some video clips of the discussion that resulted in the delay in the BZA’s decision on the 4,000 head hog CAFO that I discussed earlier this week (A CAFO Delayed, A CAFO Defeated?). [...]
February 10th, 2007 10:59
We need help. Yesterday, 02/09/07 issue of the Lafayette, Indiana Journal & Courier reported that North Fork Farms, LLC had made application to the IDEM for 2 CAFO hog installations very close(approx. 2 miles) to the town of Boswell, Indiana. There are 2 more smaller CAFO hog operations planned to be built 4-5 miles south of Boswell. We live one mile south of Boswell and the family farm is located 4 miles to the southeast. We were and are quite alarmed as I have been following the problems going in in North Carolina. We need help to get started. The CAFO people have their high powered, polically connected advocate, mainly Mr. Mike Veenhuizen PhD, Owner and President of Lifestock Engineering Solutions(BS & MS Purdue, PhD Iowa State) but who can we employ, pro-bono or paid, to help us. The Permit Application for North Fork Farms, LLC was submitted 12/06. We think we have 90 days before they decide??? Any help would be so appreciated. -Annette Holdeman