Maybe next year
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007The Pal-Item reports on the failure of the legislature to pass setback rules for CAFO’s:
Attempts to impose more regulations for confined animal feeding operations died when the Indiana General Assembly adjourned Sunday, with setbacks for the location of the mega livestock farms the primary sticking point.
Rep. Phil Pflum, D-Milton, and Rep. Tom Saunders, R-Lewisville, who authored the original House bill with setbacks, refused to compromise on that issue and couldn’t convince the other House-Senate conferees setbacks were needed.
Link.
It is interesting to note the article’s quote of Farm Bureau president Don Villwock, who said his organization opposed the setbacks because such matters should be left to the counties under the “home rule” concept. Funny though, when one county tried to get involved in a CAFO, the Governor’s agriculture chief wrote them a nasty letter. I guess the lesson is: no regulation at the state level, and no regulation at the local level.
Maybe next year.
