Posted on 11/21/2012 9:42:06 AM PST by KeyLargo
chicagotribune.com
Proposed 'mega-dairy' may close before opening
Four-year legal fight nears end with California businessman dropping plans for site near Galena
By Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune reporter
11:15 PM CST, November 20, 2012
A controversial plan to build the largest dairy in Illinois has been put out to pasture, state officials announced Tuesday.
The Illinois attorney general's office announced a proposed settlement in which the owners of the 5,500-head dairy planned near Galena will clean up and leave, to the joy of local opponents.
"We've agreed they would not seek permitting to allow the dairy, and they've decided to dismantle and be done with the project," said Scott Mulford, a spokesman for the attorney general.
The agreement would end a four-year legal battle between California dairyman A.J. Bos and a group of area residents who fought his "mega-dairy," fearing the vast amount of manure it would produce would foul the air and contaminate groundwater. The end comes without a cow ever being milked there.
Bos proposed the Tradition Dairy in 2008 near the northwestern Illinois town of Nora in Jo Daviess County. He maintained the site was safe and got a permit to proceed from the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
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Taxing Cow Flatulence Key to Saving Planet
Posted on April 05 2011 - 3:39 PM - Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter!
Farmers who blanch at the expense and inconvenience of such barnyard menu reform might think differently when they consider the alternative — and that alternative is not just a steadily warming world. In 2010, the U.N. proposed a global levy on livestock’s methane emissions, a measure that was promptly — and unavoidably — dubbed a fart tax in the press. A similar surcharge was proposed in the U.K. three years earlier, and farmers howled — though it’s arguable that this is one case in which the tax collector would dread an audit even more than the taxpayer. Still, when the U.N. proposal was first announced, Jonathan Surlock of the U.K.’s National Farmer’s Union did send an open letter to the Financial Times conceding that changing the animals’ diet was definitely preferable to taxing the consequences of not changing it.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/04/time-taxing-cow-flatulence-key-to-saving-planet.html
But, it is a Democrat's dream. Dairy subsidies up the wazzoo, gun contol and heavily union.
Bet the unions fought this interloper.
Thank goodness the locals can keep collecting their unemployment, and disability checks. Illinois has got plenty of jobs and milk. I do think they should all be allowed to upgrade their Obama phones to Obama iPhones after this important victory over a greedy California capitalist farmer.
The more jobs leave Illinois, the better.
The more jobs leave Illinois, the better.
You CANNOT have cheese without a few cow farts.
(click cow)
This is the standard democrat settlement: You quit, we win.
The more jobs leave Illinois, the better.
Agreed as long as they stay there and suck off the Illnois teat. If they head south, we are screwed. NY, CA, IL are the American versions of Mexico. They are like dogs that crap in their beds, always looking for another place to crap.
I know the Bos’, they are good people. Run HUGE dairies in NW Indiana. Stupid on Illinois part because they digest all their waste.
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