This blog has repeatedly covered the simultaneous deregulation and expansion in Wisconsin, and especially in already-beleaguered Kewaunee County, of manure-producing, groundwater-hogging, contamination-leaching industrial-scale dairy cattle feeding operations, (CAFOs).
And while Scott Walker intends a sweetheart handoff of CAFO oversight to a state agency also handling milk and dairy promotion, his "chamber of commerce mentality" DNR which still handles his intentionally dismissive approach to CAFOs has outdone its contempt for common sense and air play by scheduling for next month at a single hearing five separate CAFO wastewater permit applications that could add thousands more dairy cattle in Kewaunee County:
That's not due process; it's mindless excess for the convenience of agency managers and the applicants to show they continue to favor.
Bigger picture:
Walker will sell off, give away, pollute or otherwise sacrifice through state power every molecule of water in Wisconsin for his personal ambition, donor advantage or partisan advancement.
And while Scott Walker intends a sweetheart handoff of CAFO oversight to a state agency also handling milk and dairy promotion, his "chamber of commerce mentality" DNR which still handles his intentionally dismissive approach to CAFOs has outdone its contempt for common sense and air play by scheduling for next month at a single hearing five separate CAFO wastewater permit applications that could add thousands more dairy cattle in Kewaunee County:
The DNR published a single public notice for all five dairy farms’ Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit applications on Oct. 24. The public hearing has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 28 in the Exhibition Building at the Kewaunee County Fairgrounds, 621 Third St., Luxemburg.Which neighbors, on which working farms, have the time for all that?
That's not due process; it's mindless excess for the convenience of agency managers and the applicants to show they continue to favor.
Bigger picture:
Walker will sell off, give away, pollute or otherwise sacrifice through state power every molecule of water in Wisconsin for his personal ambition, donor advantage or partisan advancement.
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