>
> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Whoopee -- hog factory near Ottumwa disallowed -- this is only the
> 2nd
> > time in 10 years that a hog factory has not been permitted:
> >
> > http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16503193&BRD
>
> This is the one that's had Fairfield so up in arms,
> or a different one?
>
It's about 25 miles from Fairfield, so the odor would not be a
problem -- there are a number of many-thousands hog lots planned for
Fairfield's Jefferson County, and those will almost all be approved.
The laughable part is, it's only the 2nd permit denial in a decade,
because the state legislature, after intense lobbying by the hog
industry, took control over permitting of hog lots from the counties
and transferred it to a state agency, in order to disable counties
from stopping these lots.
The control of hog lot permits needs to go back to the counties,
that's the only solution. Poor and lightly-populated counties, like
Van Buren, can have all the hog lots they want, and prosperous and
more populated counties like Jefferson can bar them.
I think in 5 or ten years, control of hog-lot permits will go back to
the counties, because voters will eject from office any reps who won't
vote for such a return, but by that time, many of these hog lots will
be grandfathered in and will be around for a long time, to the
detriment of the noses and water quality in areas near these lots.
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