New Threat to the Buffalo!

Newly filed SB290, like the previous SB84, seeks to allow industrial swine CAFOs in the Buffalo River watershed. SB290 achieves the same results as SB84, with a meaningless procedural twist.

Why introduce a new bill that does the same thing? They’re counting on one of the following. That…

• We won’t catch it.

• We won’t understand it.

• We will fail to act.

• We won’t respond fast enough.

We need your immediate help.

SB290 is on the Senate Agricultural Committee agenda at 10:00 AM Thursday the 27th (this week). We have no time to lose. Email the AG committee members listed at bottom. Submit any of the following comments or prepare your own.

• Our Arkansas Heritage – There is no place more iconic, or more deserving of protection, than the Buffalo National River.

• The River – While the last CAFO was operational, the nearest section of the Buffalo was declared impaired for pathogens. The algae was unprecedented. CAFO’s damage water quality, especially in karst topography.

• The Economy – Operations that spread millions of gallons of untreated swine waste along the banks of the Buffalo’s tributaries, will kill investment, kill jobs, and put an end to Arkansas’ “outdoor economy.”

• The Taxpayer – Allowing new CAFOs near the Buffalo is a poke in the eye to the taxpayers and private donors that raised 6.2 million dollars to close the last one.

Bottom line… Allowing CAFOs near the Buffalo is terrible for Arkansas.

Please email all these members of the committees involved to let them know this is not ok for Arkansas! Here’s their email addresses:

Senate Agricultural Committee:

ronald.caldwell@Senate.ar.gov

matt.stone@senate.ar.gov

steve.crowell@senate.ar.gov

jonathan.dismang@senate.ar.gov

ben.gilmore@senate.ar.gov

jimmy.hickey@senate.ar.gov

House Agricultural Committee:

roger.lynch@arkansashouse.org

jeremiah.moore@arkansashouse.org