St. Joseph County IDEM Session
IDEM has announced an informational session in St. Joseph County regarding CAFO’s in light of the concern expressed by residents about a dairy being installed there. The session will take place at 6:00PM on October 11, 2006, at the LaVille Jr-Sr High School in Lakeville, Indiana.
The notice says that IDEM will be taking public comment on any pending CAFO proposed for St. Joseph County, so St. Joe folks should head over and be heard.
October 4th, 2006 20:38
The public comment/questions has to be submitted in writting and they won’t be answering any questions thats lame.
October 13th, 2006 08:18
[...] As I reported earlier, concern over a dairy CAFO in St. Joseph County cause IDEM to schedule a public meeting in the county to "discuss" the issue. However, IDEM required ALL questions to be addressed at the meeting to be submitted in writing ahead of time, and from reports of the meeting, this permitted IDEM to pick the questions they would answer, and also take some liberties in the editing of these questions, effectively giving them the opportunity to say what they wanted to say without facing any actual tough questions from the citizens of St. Jo: "This is actually a new format for us and what we are trying to do is make it as informational as possible. In the past, our public hearings have been sort of 1-sided, we only accepted comments and not really were we able to respond and provide information," said Idem Spokesperson Amy Hardstock. [...]