More Media Interest In Mega-Dairy Expansion

Glad to see more comprehensive media about this very important groundwater, public participation and DNR accountability issue unfolding in Green Bay about a proposed Kewaunee County mega-dairy expansion.

More information, here, and here:

Citizens and the public interest law firm Midwest Environmental Advocates, (MEA), are challenging a livestock waste management permit and dispersal plan approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for a huge Wisconsin dairy, Kinnard Farms, in the Town of Lincoln. 

Hearings to contest the expansion permit approved by the DNR begin Tuesday, Feb. 11th in Green Bay City Hall; public testimony begins at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 12th.  

At the center of the dispute is the dairy's plan, OK'ed by the DNR, to store and then spread up to 70 million gallons of liquid manure and other livestock waste. 

The approval process - - detailed here - - illustrates everything that is wrong at the DNR  - - traditionally a neutral, honest-broker natural resources agency - -  that is now directed by senior managers from the Wisconsin private sector implementing Scott Walker's self-described "chamber-of-commerce mentality."