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By: Chet Brokaw Associated Press Writer
PIERRE - Construction has been stopped at the site of a controversial farm near Wagner until a public meeting is held Monday night to explain the project to the public, a lawyer for the operation said Friday.
Dave Nadolski of Sioux Falls, representing the hog farm developers, said the meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the armory in Wagner.
Yankton Sioux tribal members and others protested at the site this week because they are worried the large-scale hog farm will smell and could pollute water in the area.
Nadolski said representatives of the Yankton Sioux Tribe and Long View Farm, the project's owner, met all day Friday in Wagner and agreed to hold the public meeting Monday night.
"Out of respect for the tribe, to try to answer questions, we're going to have some academic and industry experts down there and then our own internal folks and let the local citizenry ask those questions they may have about the location," Nadolski said. "We will not restart construction until Tuesday morning."
Long View Farm officials have said the operation could house an average of 3,350 sows and produce 70,000 pigs a year. The young pigs will be shipped to farms in Iowa when they are a couple of weeks old.
A judge in the Yankton Sioux Tribal Court on Monday granted the tribe's petition for the exclusion and removal of the hog farm developers. A tribal lawyer said that ruling basically prohibits the developers from traveling across reservation land to get to the site.
Demonstrators have not blocked access to the site, which is located on private land under the legal jurisdiction of the state. Part of the road leading to the site is on trust land, which is under the tribe's jurisdiction.
Some protesters have said they did not know about the hog farm until recently, but Nadolski said Long View Farm representatives met with area farmers last fall and winter.
When the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources published a notice in the Wagner Post newspaper on Aug. 2 that Long View Farm had applied for approval to build the hog farm, only three people called the department in the next 30 days, said Kent Woodmansey of DENR.
"We didn't get any written comments," Woodmansey said.
Monica Wepking, editor of the Wagner Post, said the Charles Mix County Commission discussed the issue last fall and she then published an interview with the head of the company building the hog farm. She said she wrote several other stories about the operation and sought comment from a tribal official.
"When people say they never knew about it, you know it kind of surprises me because word has been out for a long time," Wepking said.
Woodmansey said Long View Farm has complied with all requirements to get a state permit so far.
After Long View Farm filed detailed plans seeking a general permit for a concentrated animal feeding operation, the DENR conditionally approved the plans and specifications for the project. However, the company cannot put animals in the facility or use the manure management system until construction is completed, the DENR inspects it and issues a permit.
The operation will collect manure in deep concrete pits under the farrowing, breeding and gestation bans, and it has agreements to apply that manure as fertilizer on a number of farms in the area, according to documents filed with the DENR.
Soil will be tested annually on the 2,616 acres of cropland that will be fertilized.
DENR documents report that the operation probably will not need a groundwater discharge permit because it will not affect underground water supplies. The hog farm does not appear to be over any shallow aquifer, the documents said.
The hog farm plans to get water from a rural water system. It would not need a water rights permit unless water use exceeds a certain level.
Meanwhile, a California legal consultant who has helped organize lawsuits filed by members of several Sioux tribes said he and his wife are planning to finance a class-action lawsuit against the hog farm on behalf of individual Yankton Sioux Tribe members.
Gary Frischer of Los Angeles said he and his wife, Carrie Leigh, founder of an art magazine that features nude photos, made many friends during the years they traveled in South Dakota to organize lawsuits alleging abuse at Indian boarding schools that operated decades ago. They have decided to have the magazine, Carrie Leigh's NUDE, support a class-action lawsuit that will seek to shut down the hog farm, he said.
A lawsuit cannot be filed until the hog farm is built and starts to smell, Frischer told The Associated Press.
Many tribal members are poor and cannot afford the air conditioning that would at least allow them to escape the smell by going inside, Frischer said. The hog farm is only a few miles from Marty, the tribal headquarters and site of a housing area where most tribal members live, he said.
"If the hog farm goes in, these poor people are going to lose the last thing they have and that's the air they breathe, due to the smell of this hog farm," he said. "Everybody knows the air is going to stink all day long."
Even if the operators have the required permits, they cannot pollute the air and water, Frischer said.
"There's a lawsuit there. It's just a disaster waiting to happen," Frischer said.
Nadolski, the hog farm lawyer, said lawsuits alleging that hog, chicken and dairy operations cause nuisances have been filed in other areas. But the operation near Wagner is nothing like older concentrated animal operations, he said.
Manure from the farm will not be held in open lagoons, but instead will be collected in cement pits, Nadolski said. "So there's no exposure to the air that doesn't go through a cooler and big fans and that kind of stuff."
No one can even enter such a facility without taking a shower and putting on special clothing to make sure the hogs remain disease-free, Nadolski said. civil rights activites.
While today's bimbos of Playboy continue to destroy the image of the female yesterday's First Lady of Playboy continues on with her non stop Farm Protest: Public Meeting Set For Monday
ReplyDeleteBy: Chet Brokaw
Associated Press Writer
PIERRE - Construction has been stopped at the site of a controversial farm near Wagner until a public meeting is held Monday night to explain the project to the public, a lawyer for the operation said Friday.
Dave Nadolski of Sioux Falls, representing the hog farm developers, said the meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the armory in Wagner.
Yankton Sioux tribal members and others protested at the site this week because they are worried the large-scale hog farm will smell and could pollute water in the area.
Nadolski said representatives of the Yankton Sioux Tribe and Long View Farm, the project's owner, met all day Friday in Wagner and agreed to hold the public meeting Monday night.
"Out of respect for the tribe, to try to answer questions, we're going to have some academic and industry experts down there and then our own internal folks and let the local citizenry ask those questions they may have about the location," Nadolski said. "We will not restart construction until Tuesday morning."
Long View Farm officials have said the operation could house an average of 3,350 sows and produce 70,000 pigs a year. The young pigs will be shipped to farms in Iowa when they are a couple of weeks old.
A judge in the Yankton Sioux Tribal Court on Monday granted the tribe's petition for the exclusion and removal of the hog farm developers. A tribal lawyer said that ruling basically prohibits the developers from traveling across reservation land to get to the site.
Demonstrators have not blocked access to the site, which is located on private land under the legal jurisdiction of the state. Part of the road leading to the site is on trust land, which is under the tribe's jurisdiction.
Some protesters have said they did not know about the hog farm until recently, but Nadolski said Long View Farm representatives met with area farmers last fall and winter.
When the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources published a notice in the Wagner Post newspaper on Aug. 2 that Long View Farm had applied for approval to build the hog farm, only three people called the department in the next 30 days, said Kent Woodmansey of DENR.
"We didn't get any written comments," Woodmansey said.
Monica Wepking, editor of the Wagner Post, said the Charles Mix County Commission discussed the issue last fall and she then published an interview with the head of the company building the hog farm. She said she wrote several other stories about the operation and sought comment from a tribal official.
"When people say they never knew about it, you know it kind of surprises me because word has been out for a long time," Wepking said.
Woodmansey said Long View Farm has complied with all requirements to get a state permit so far.
After Long View Farm filed detailed plans seeking a general permit for a concentrated animal feeding operation, the DENR conditionally approved the plans and specifications for the project. However, the company cannot put animals in the facility or use the manure management system until construction is completed, the DENR inspects it and issues a permit.
The operation will collect manure in deep concrete pits under the farrowing, breeding and gestation bans, and it has agreements to apply that manure as fertilizer on a number of farms in the area, according to documents filed with the DENR.
Soil will be tested annually on the 2,616 acres of cropland that will be fertilized.
DENR documents report that the operation probably will not need a groundwater discharge permit because it will not affect underground water supplies. The hog farm does not appear to be over any shallow aquifer, the documents said.
The hog farm plans to get water from a rural water system. It would not need a water rights permit unless water use exceeds a certain level.
Meanwhile, a California legal consultant who has helped organize lawsuits filed by members of several Sioux tribes said he and his wife are planning to finance a class-action lawsuit against the hog farm on behalf of individual Yankton Sioux Tribe members.
Gary Frischer of Los Angeles said he and his wife, Carrie Leigh, founder of an art magazine that features nude photos, made many friends during the years they traveled in South Dakota to organize lawsuits alleging abuse at Indian boarding schools that operated decades ago. They have decided to have the magazine, Carrie Leigh's NUDE, support a class-action lawsuit that will seek to shut down the hog farm, he said.
A lawsuit cannot be filed until the hog farm is built and starts to smell, Frischer told The Associated Press.
Many tribal members are poor and cannot afford the air conditioning that would at least allow them to escape the smell by going inside, Frischer said. The hog farm is only a few miles from Marty, the tribal headquarters and site of a housing area where most tribal members live, he said.
"If the hog farm goes in, these poor people are going to lose the last thing they have and that's the air they breathe, due to the smell of this hog farm," he said. "Everybody knows the air is going to stink all day long."
Even if the operators have the required permits, they cannot pollute the air and water, Frischer said.
"There's a lawsuit there. It's just a disaster waiting to happen," Frischer said.
Nadolski, the hog farm lawyer, said lawsuits alleging that hog, chicken and dairy operations cause nuisances have been filed in other areas. But the operation near Wagner is nothing like older concentrated animal operations, he said.
Manure from the farm will not be held in open lagoons, but instead will be collected in cement pits, Nadolski said. "So there's no exposure to the air that doesn't go through a cooler and big fans and that kind of stuff."
No one can even enter such a facility without taking a shower and putting on special clothing to make sure the hogs remain disease-free, Nadolski said. civil rights activites.