http://www.kemplog.com/2006/10/04/st-joseph-county-idem-session/ Life and law in Eastern Indiana Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.kemplog.com/2006/10/04/st-joseph-county-idem-session/#comment-3901 Kemplog » Blog Archive » IDEM Talks, But Does it Listen? Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:18:45 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2006/10/04/st-joseph-county-idem-session/#comment-3901 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://www.kemplog.com/2006/10/04/st-joseph-county-idem-session/#comment-3673 Tiffany Knutson Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:38:05 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2006/10/04/st-joseph-county-idem-session/#comment-3673 The public comment/questions has to be submitted in writting and they won't be answering any questions thats lame. The public comment/questions has to be submitted in writting and they won’t be answering any questions thats lame.

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