A local diary farm was charged with violating state water
quality standards after last week’s heavy rains allegedly washed
manure off a field and into a tributary feeding the Owasco and
Skaneateles lake watersheds.
www.PhoenixTalks.com
DEC cites farm for manure runoffThe Owasco Lake Watershed inspector said the foam shown in this
photo indicates that manure from a nearby Twin Birch Dairy farm
field was washed into Dutch Hollow Brook tributary during last
week’s heavy rain. The photo was taken by the watershed inspector
as part of an ongoing investigation into the run-off pollution that
entered both the Skaneateles and Owasco lake watersheds.
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Dear Citizens and friends of the Town of Schroeppel and Village of Phoenix, Thanks for all of the help and support you gave. We were able to keep mining from spoiling our town, and most importantly, our water supply. We need your help once again to pay the lawyer we hired to ensure our position if the vote had not gone in our favor. The bill came to just over $5000.00 and we are asking each family to make a $10.00 donation to the Pleasant Lake Association, who will be writing the final check. Of course, we will accept a donation of any size that you would like to make. The fastest and easier way to make a donation is online through PayPal. Even if you don't have a PayPal account, you can still donate using a credit or debit card. Click the button below to donate online
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| Take the Kreider Farms Tour Click Here On Monday (May 9, 2011) a member of the CFA & a Syracuse U student who is majoring in Film Documentary toured the Kreider Farm and the local area to find out how the Kreider Farm and the Bion project in Oswego County are a like. ( Film will be previewed in Aug) The farm pictured below is the Kreider Farm that has the Bio reactor on it ---- The picture below was taken in 1992 (No Bio reactor was on it at that time ) Information about the Farm 1. 1,200 dairy cows are in the Barn to the Top Left 2. Middle Barn is the Milking Barn -Cows are milked 3 times per day. 3. Next Barn is the Barn they use for sick cows 4. Ponds below the Barns are for the cows waste (3 ponds ) 5. The Bio reactor now is located just below the Barns in the ponds area as of (May 9, 2011) 6. The building to the lower far right are for 5 million chickens |
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Posting Date: 04-20-2011-by Wes Belcher
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Protect Family Farms Say No to Animal Factories in I join with Citizens for Family Farms in calling for the Town of Schroeppel to rescind the December 2009 resolution and reject the Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. animal factory proposed for Oswego County. Bion’s 72,000 beef factory would slaughter 600 cattle every day. This factory will negatively
impact local property values and pollute our air, land, and water. It is not a suitable project for CNY. |
| First Name: : john jones Street Address: : 190 fthird st City or Town: : fulton State, County or Province : ny phone # : 315 517 9327 Your comments : no more slaughterhouses murdering innocent animals!! |
| First Name: : Jennifer G Email Address: : Street Address: : City or Town: : Phoenix State, County or Province : NY phone # : Your comments : Factory Farming is where 90% or more of our meet comes from today, The animals are highly mistreated left to suffer and die in cruel and inhumane ways. The pollution and run off of their feces will pollute out waters and bring delcine to our land and economics. The removel of meat from our diets all together lead to a btter quality of life and is great for the enviroment, but for those who still want meat, we should be promoting small family farms and not corporate factory farms!!!!! |
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| First Name: : JULIE Email Address: : MILLER Street Address: : 1155 BURDEN LAKE City or Town: : AVERILL PARK State, County or Province : NY phone # : Your comments : HOW HORRIBLE...THE POLLUTION, THE CRUELTY...EAT LESS MEAT...MORE VEGETABLES LET NY LEAD THE COUNTRY IN CUTTING BACK ON EATING MEAT SO WE CAN PROTECT OUR HEALTH AND OUR ENVIRONMENT. |
| First Name: : J. Jones Email Address: : jdjones@bright.net Street Address: : City or Town: : Redfield State, County or Province : NY phone # : Your comments : I agree that we need a small plant that caters to local farms that promote organic, grass-fed, and other environmentally enriching practices. |
| First Name: : Donald Ritchie Email Address: : dlritchie@windstream.net Street Address: : 153 West Third Street North City or Town: : Fulton State, County or Province : New York phone # : 315 593-6678 Your comments : The only one who benifits is Bion Environmental Technologies. They make the profit ant the rest of us will end up suffering |
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| aurine Tranter, Phoenix |
| Claire Henderson Schenectady, NY |
| Maurine Tranter, Phoenix |
| Heidi Caltabianol, Phoenix NY This industrial farm is a horrible Idea. Between the pollution and the caliber of workers who would be attracted to work in a slaughter house, this is absolutely awful. I feel that we should encourage a much smaller local processing plant for small local producers to process their more environmentally responsibly raised local meat products. This would be a positive thing for our community and bring us closer to our food as opposed to the proposed industrial operation that can create so many problems and allow americans to continue to be disconnected from where their meat comes from. |
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| shari darling fulton our community is too small to have a plant that size. anyway ,why are they even considering our town for something so assinine? it would create jobs for our community but at what cost to our environment |
| joe dinicola, Syracuse Okay lets get past the Barbarianism, there are other alternatives, you don't need Meat or poultry, to get protein, stop letting big factory farms rule humanity and animal welfare!. |
| Valerie Gray-Morgan,Phoenix This is not needed in our town. The smell,pollution and hazards on the invorement would greatly reduce the nice home town that we have! |
| Skyler Smart, Phoenix |
| Jennie Smart Phoenix NY We couldn't keep our animals penned up and in that much of a confined space so why should Bion. You should only have as much animals as your land can comfortably house. |
| Karilyn DeSpain, Mexico, NY |
| Valerie Gray-Morgan,Phoenix |
| Chris Leap Phoenix I hate the idea of this. Its sad that we even have to sign something like this to stop something so unneeded in these times. |
| Kenneth Hamlin Pennellville We will move out if this ever happens. Are we moving backwards in time?? |
| Reese LeVea Phoenix NY |
| ashley thompson hannibal |
| Chris Darling fulton HATES THE IDEA! |
| Julia Brennan Phoenix |
| Jenn VanWormer, Pennellville |
| kaela walts pennellville we dont need a slaughter house. its just wrong. phoenix is great the way it is! |
| Chelsea Fullmer Pennellville |
| Nancy Hamlin Phoenix NY This proposal is not in keeping with the generational family farms and property in the area. The largest individual cattle livestock facility east of the Mississippi is absurd for the Phoenix area. |
| Jennifer VanWormer- Pennellville |
| Ryan Conger Phoenix I live directly behind industrial park on those farm lands we don't want it here |
| Melissa Perry - Pennellville, NY |
| Alexis Jeffries Fulton I think that this plant is absurd. It will be placed near the daycare, and will release a lot of pollutin into the air, for the children and adults to breathe in. It isn't right to subject anyone, especially the little kids, to that. |
| Christopher Grethel, Pennellville |
| Liza Grethel, Pennellville |
| Ashley Wilson, Phoenix Its just plain wrong! Cows aren't just for useless things like this Ethanol plant. |
| Kelsey White Clay NY |
| Jessica Coughlin Phoenix NY |
| Joanne A Sweet Phoenix NY |
| Linda A. DeStefano Clay NY update
Hasn't the rejection from st. Lawrence co. which has historically been a very poor county made any leeway with this county?
It would in my estimation be a good thing to take a
field trip to just such a worksite to see what is in store for people
who actually work at these jobs. I can imagine that it is not a pretty
picture. A picture is worth a 1,000 words.
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| Sheela Davuluri, fayetteville I think this project will pollute the air and water of cny |
| Debra Scahill Hasings I am totally against animal factories in Phoenix! |
| Rachael Dolan, Pennellville |
| Tammy Wolfanger Syracuse |
| James. W. Sweet Phoenix |
| Todd Hobin- Pennellville Jobs? Who do you think is going to take or want these jobs? Think about it. High paying jobs? Probably not. They will most likely import the labor force to do their dirty work. Hmmm.... long term, are they creating opportunity for this area? Or opportunity for somebody else? Will they bring prosperity or... will Oswego County inherit another stinking problem |
| Pat Kelly, Pennellville |
| Bob Kelly, Pennellville I grew up on a small dairy farm. I can't imagine how many trucks a day would be going in and out to feed 72,000 head of cattle, and then hauling out the butchered beef as well. What would they do, hire 300 illegal Mexicans to work there? |
| Laura McGinley Palermo |
| J O'Connor- Hannibal Something of this magnitude shouldn't be considered in a populated area. People need to start calling their legislators and telling them to say no to Bion. |
| Jeffrey & Reiko Young, Pennellville, NY We already have an ethanol plant in Fulton which has just started producing. We oppose to bringing in another huge plant so close to it and involving an enormous number of animals to deal with in a small community like Town of Schroeppel. We have been trying so hard to build such nice neighborhood we are proud of. They should find some open land with lot less residents; not in the Town of Schroeppel, for sure. |
| Tammy furco- phoenix |
| Christopher furco - phoenix |
| Samantha furco Don't do it! |
| Paul Richards, Phoenix |
| Emily Williams Baldwinsville |
| Poppy Husted Pennellville NY |
| Patricia Dunn Rt. 264 Phoenix NY I've seen some stupid ideas proposed to increase jobs, but this one tops them all. We want to be the "guinea pig" for the East Coast?? The company leaves after it's built the plant.Don't complain about the smell after its built, big business will control our politicians. Let me guess- it will be placed on land owned by relatives of powerful politicians. Aren't we tired of our politicians selling us short? We saw this when the big gas line went through Phoenix. It went all around the politicians land, until the citizens got involved. If citizens don't get involved and say NO, then they deserve the mess that's awaiting them.Do you really believe 72,000 cows & no severe problems? Phoenix citizens- you get what you deserve. At least read up on why St Lawrence county didn't want them. |
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| Alex Zerbinos Phoenix Looking at this as a Phoenix resident, I see no reason to allow these plants to move in our area. We are suppose to be trying to clean up our homes not turn them into sewer plants. We are teaching are chidren to clean up the environment ,not harm or destroy it. What kind of example are we setting for them? Phoenix is not a rich town but in past we have had some tradgedies happen that were overcame and no espesially in the last twenty years or so the water is getting better, streets are improving, and we have been doing O.K. I think it would be wrong to except any proposal that has just been turned down by someone else. So let's make us and our children proud by doing what we're teaching them. Say No to these Ethanol Plants. |
| Sonia Buck, Fayetteville |
| Vincent Nalli Liverpool This better not happen!! There's no need for it!!! |
| R. Archambault, Fayrtteville |
| Sarah Gray , Syracuse |
| Stacy Hernandez, North Syracuse |
| paul thorn pennellville the enviromental impact will be too great |
| GTSniffen Pennellville (Pleasantlake) |
| Julie Daniel Baldwinsville this is outrageous! We need to do all that is possible to stop this inhumane operation! |
| Nancy Sniffen, Pennellville |
| Alissa McCaffrey, Phoenix |
| Katie Lyboult Phoenix |
| sarah bello phoenix |
| Amanda Russ Fulton This is a horrible idea and would stink up the whole town |
| jason mattice i hope these factories fall on the people building them and then the
cattle have a feast on these stupid hind ends |
| Nick Mattice you kidding me? |
| Lisa Lynn Phoenix |
| Tyler Mattice Fulton NY |
| James Lambert Liverpool |
| Alyssa Russ Phoenix I grew up in Phoenix and currently work at the daycare in Industrial park, this factory would be within 3 miles of the daycare. WE play outside a lot and it would smell really, really bad. And the pollution would be horrible. |
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| Frank Abbott Phoenix NY |
| jason creighton phoenix |
| Brandi Nichols Phoenix |
| Margaret Hart Central Square |
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| Candy Costa, Central Square |
| ellen diflo syracuse ny |
| Shannon Featherly, Three Mile Bay NY |
| Rebekah Young East Syracuse NY |
| Linda Deeb Phoenix |
| Andrew Peterson Central Square NO THANK YOU |
| Cheri Rotelli, Mattydale |
| Gail Greiner, Kirkville, NY |
| Katrina Crocker, Schroeppel |
| Lisa Peterson Central Square |
| Geri Aird, Fayetteville Please preserve the Family Farms, environment and healthier way of life. |
| Megan Riccardi, East Syracuse |
| Joan Hickey, Syracuse NY |
| Jody Brown Syracuse |
| Patricia Berard Phoenix NY Do not want this kind of industry in PHOENIX, NY |
| Tabitha Parker, LaFayette |
| Karen Kellogg Syracuse |
| Kurt Bramer -Bernhards Bay |
| Carey Pitzrick Liverpool |
| Mary Fulton Liverpool I have lived near a slaughter yard in Colorado. The stench and pollution is overwhelming. Please don't bring this mess to CNY. |
| Lorie Bebber Cicero This is awful for the animals, enviroment and families in Phoenix! |
| Nancy Misenko Hammond, NY |
| Edgar Sanford, Syracuse This is a project that would be seriously detrimental to the entire Central New York environment and quality of life. Please don't let it move forward! |
| Hernandez Balzac, Syracuse |
| Julie Ramage Syracuse |
| Fred Ramseyer Syracuse NY |
| Christen Marsenison, Phoenix |
| Andrea Wandersee, Syracuse |
| Andrea Wandersee, Syracuse |
| Heather Printup, Cicero Opposed due to environmental/animal impact concerns. |
| Gretchen Deeb Baldwinsville |
| Michelle Clark, Phoenix NO |
| Elizabeth C. Avery, Phoenix NY Totally against this adventure_wrong for the community! |
| Michelle Allen, Phoenix |
| Tammy Loveless,Phoenix |
| Shelley Lamas, Liverpool, NY Please do not bring this to Phoenix. |
| Amanda Slater, Phoenix NY |
| Jackie Anderson, Phoenix, NY |
| Karyn Dracker, North Syracuse |
| James Paye, Pennellville I don't believe this
type of operation is in the best interest of the community, irrespective
of the number of jobs or tax revenue
it may bring. I think the project is out of character with the
community and will negatively impact property values. From a
sustainability standpoint, I suspect smaller, local producers will have a
lesser carbon footprint
than a CAFO with a 300-mile distribution radius. This project will
distract us from attracting more suitable industries, and could if
implemented dissuade more progressive industries from locating here. |
| Rebecca Mahoney, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Stephen Wituszynski Clay NY Against for environmental & humane reasons |
| Oscar Bartholomew Jr. Phoenix NY Let's please not
even get to discussing the slaughter of the animals from this facility.
How about we start with the absolutely incredible environmental impact
this kind of facility would have. Regardless of what these less than
honest people might tell you, this kind of operation IS going to affect
our well water, our rivers,and our aquifers along other numerous
negative environmantal issues that have already been mentioned |
| Carin Cole Pennellville |
| Jennifer Ricker, Phoenix We dont need the pollution and property values changing |
| Monica Rae , phoenix |
| Michelle Brundage, Pennellville |
| James Quigley Phoenix |
| James R Carioti Phoenix |
| Deborah Mevoli BVille NY |
| Leigh Bergman, Fulton |
| Jennifer Kondrk, Clay |
| Dalton Dobson Phoenix |
| Joseph Schafran Syracuse |
| Samantha Andrews , Phoenix |
| Joe Bambino, Cicero |
| Abby Andrews, Pennellville, NY |
| Elaine Phillips Oswego |
| Nicole McCann Fulton NY These are not the types of jobs we need. This place also puts our family pets at risk |
| stephanie passalaqua, brewerton |
| Sarah Bell Phoenix, NY |
| Todd Brundage Pennellville, NY |
| Dawn Proia, Pennellville |
| Audrey Capenos, Pennellville |
| Carin Cole Pennellville |
| George Skapars Pennellville |
| Laura McIlroy East Syracuse |
| Laura Bortolin Fulton NY Please say no to cruel and environmentally damaging animal factory farming and support local family farms for a healthier future for us all. |
| Amy Hueber Syracuse, NY |
| Katie Lawson Syracuse, NY This would be a disaster if it ruined one of our beautiful upstate NY towns. Upstate NY is not known for large animal slaughter plants, but small family farms. Lets keep it that way! |
| Colleen Henry Pennellville |
| Rachel Dorling, Hannibal A similar hog-feeding facility was constructe near my family in Michigan. They promised no smell, but the smell can often be horrible. This eyesore negatively impacted home values and quality of life in the area. |
| Bridget Maloney Syracuse |
| Beth Toepp Auburn |
| Joyce Warner Clay Protect our environment and say no to these factory |
| lori lucarelli,baldwinsville I am against cruelty and misuse of animals for profit |
| Elaine Patterson Syracuse NY |
| Joe-Anna Taylor Baldwinsville I feel this is a VERY big mistake due to the environmental impact on the community. I believe it is time to look at things from a view of the future rather then "instant gratification + the quick fix." to increase revenue. How about the constant waste from those busy lining their pockets + those of their friends? I've always worked for the government + the waste is staggering, as well as the uninformed decisions + total waste of resources, as well as laziness + stupidity. I believe in supporting the local farmer |
| mary kuhn syracuse |
| Jenny Spencer, Watertown |
| Joan Spencer Baldwinsville My parents live in Phoenix. I don't want to see a nice community be inundated with problems associated with the slaughterhouse. |
| Trina Creighton Phoenix |
| Elena Aleshina Oswego NY Bad idea for this area. |
| Anthony Kossa Pennellville |
| Debbie Joly Syracuse NY |
| Tabitha Parker, LaFayette |
| Christopher Stewart Syracuse NY |
| Amy Myers Fulton |
| Gerald L. Jones Phoenix NY This type of farming
belongs in prairie country far away from families and peoples homes. I
don't want death and slaughter in my back yard and the potential total
distruction of our water ways. |
| Patricia Kingsbury Phoenix NY I have one question to
ask everyone. Have you ever been behind a cattle truck going 65 miles
an hr. and had the contents of a cows bladder spray out saturating
everything that is nearby? I ask you to consider this as you step out
youre front door and get you're mail from a urin soaked mail box or just
touching a car door to go to work in the morning, or never having youre
children play outside in their yard because its now contaminated. I
could go on but I think you get the picture. This is no place for the
kind of "farming" that this slaughter house will bring. |
| Nancy Ozaroski Central Square |
| Michele Dobson,Phoenix NO animal factories in Phoenix or Oswego County |
| J Wicks, Central Square We do not need slaughterhouses, the animal suffering, and the environmental pollution this will bring, anywhere in New York! Don't allow this to happen! All signs point to NO so take a stand - absolutely NO MORE HORRIBLE STUFF FOR NEW YORK! |
| Candy Costa, Central Square |
| Kaela Porter, South Salem NY |
| Sarah Youngman, Liverpool |
| Robyn Clough, Phoenix |
| Lucie Bishop Atlanta |
| Bonnie Watson Baldwinsville |
| Kate Mercer, Phoenix |
| MARYPAT D'ARRIGO, PHOENIX, NY |
| Jeffrey Thomas, Schroeppel |
| Marilyn Nye Pennellville I am against this company and service coming to the Phoenix area |
| Shannon
Isham, Syracuse As a consumer of beef, I like to know that the cow
lived and died under humane living conditions. There is absolutely
nothing humane about factory farms.
I would far rather pay more for beef raised on local farms and to
support the local farmer. I would never purchase beef from a facility
such as the one considered for Oswego County. Ever |
| Maureen Fitzgerald San Francisco I'm an ex-Central New Yorker...still so impressed by the beauty of the land when I visit there. It sounds like Bion will give jobs, but at what cost to the community and environment? Family farms support families and communities. |
| Dorothy Paino, N Massapequa,NY |
| Michael Paino, N Massapequa NY Not in this beautiful place ! |
| Dale Tomlinson Phoenix NY Reflections on the meeting with BION Technologies, Inc., representatives at Oswego State on 14 July 10: As a general observation, Mr. J. Kappel was the best speaker for Bion, which does not mean I accepted all he said. Dr. J. Morris was a bit too political in his manner; almost a Bill Clinton ?I feel your pain? schtick with his Tennessee drawl to impress us common folk how common he was also. Mr. D. Bassani ? who spoke last and appeared to me to be wishing he were somewhere else all evening ? was arrogant, almost taunting the audience, condescending, and it seemed he was looking for a fight. Factually, however, all these people are seriously challenged; they either do not really know what they are talking about, or at least any one of the three does not at certain times. First, Dr. Morris stated (in response to a question from the audience about a slide showing a bovine representation which stated that this animal emitted 360 Lbs./year of nitrogen) that it did not matter whether or not it was a dairy cow or beef cattle. However, later on, Mr. Bassani tried to tell us that dairy cows consumed and emitted 2.5 times as much as cattle, while trying to convince us that a 500-cow dairy herd currently operated in the county would be equivalent to (1) their 1250-cattle test operation in Pennsylvania and (2) would also emit as much as one of their five 14,400-cattle sites which would use their patented digestion technology for waste treatment. Also, Mr. Bassani, et. al., apparently dismissed such facts as: unlike a 500-cow dairy herd grazing on open pasture ? their operation would require feed being brought to confined cattle on a continuous basis, their waste being removed by truck (and liquids filtered in engineered wet lands), and cattle (600 per day overall, prorated to 120 per site) being brought in by truck to replace those slaughtered. They have not invented non-polluting trucks (or in the case of excrement and distillery grain ? the feed -- transport, leak- or crash-proof trucks), to my knowledge. Also, at the meeting, Dr. Morris pointed out that Bion?s digester technology would be heated to ensure it operates as it does in warmer climes; the impact of burning large amounts of fossil fuel to effect this was not explained, but is another fact that gives the lie to the ?closed-loop? pitch that Bion makes. They mentioned that they would pay some 2.5 million dollars annually in taxes, but that is really not known because a PILOT agreement might be considered. And, in any event, 2.5 million dollars will not go far when spent over the entire county, especially considering the damage to roads and infrastructure caused by hundreds of additional heavy truck sorties daily over our roads, and certainly will do nothing to cover any environmental damage done by their operation. As to this last point, when asked if Bion would post any bond or other such insurance fund to cover inadvertent damage or ? a question specifically asked ? for the loss of local livestock due to mandated destruction if one of their 72,000 animals contracts a contagious disease (he did not answer the question as to where they would procure cattle for finishing), Mr. Bassani simply said, ?No.? Never mind the mess left behind if their huge experiment fails and they walk away from it. In regards to the chances of that happening, consider this from Bion Technologies? 10-Q Report to the SEC, 5 March 2010: ??The Company has not generated revenues and has incurred net losses of approximately $1,312,000 and $1,779,000 during the years ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and a net loss of approximately $2,227,000 for the nine months ended March 31, 2010. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.? The last phrase expressing doubt about Bion?s being a ?going concern? also appeared in a 2005 auditor?s report. Based on the above history of exponentially-increasing losses, this company has no financial underpinning to carry out such a venture as they have proposed. Period. Finally, what about all the wonderful jobs that have been promised? It turns out that Bion comprises 8 people. That?s all. They do not have the intention or the capability of operating or overseeing any of this scheme themselves. This will all be done through subcontractors ? for the cattle sites; for the grain shipping; for the cattle, waste, and feed, and meat trucking; for the slaughterhouse operation; and for the engineering of man-made wetlands, waste treatment systems and lagoons, barns, ?buffer? crop areas, etc. Bion has no contractors lined up at this time ? none that they would name for us, certainly. How could they know all the employment plans of so diversified a set of unknown companies? (This is probably the reason that employment estimates have varied from the 600 range to the 300 range ? they are guessing.) Add to this their admission late in the meeting that they might not build their own ethanol plant but would ?partner? with the Sunoco operation just getting started in Fulton, and the number of jobs falls further. More to the point, the number of high-paying, skilled jobs falls precipitously. (Note also that the Sunoco plant was not engineered to burn animal waste for fuel, nor was it designed with the animal-waste-in and distillery-grain-out balance necessary to accommodate a 72,000 cattle in a ?closed-loop?, so this is purely speculative even from a technological point of view. Bion has no concrete plan as to how it will produce ethanol.) Here is the deal as I see it: Bion makes (or will try to make) money, has no liability, and few if any good jobs result from this exercise. Water pollution due to routine operation or accidents, adverse effects on wells near the cattle sites (such as lowering of local water tables), malodorous living conditions for residents within several miles of some sites, road damage, and less safety on our roads (remember, these trucks will have to transport cattle, feed, and waste all winter, every day) are all distinct possibilities; and no bond to make us whole should problems result. I do not see how anyone could believe this scheme has has any net benefits for Oswego County, at least with what has been presented to date. |
| Mary Ann Raemsch Pennellville |
| Sara Bambino, Cicero Let's support our local family farmers and show that our central NY community is against the cruelty of factory farming! |
| Penny McCann Fulton NY This community needs a lot of things, but a slaughter house is absolutely not one of them. |
| Sybil Gouchie : Phoenix I am totally opposed to this slaughterhouse and wish to help spread the word and inform the public in any way. I am a small business owner in the Village of Phoenix (AM/PM Yoga Source) and also a homeowner on St Rt 264. I can post lawn signs or whatever else is needed. Please contact me and let me know what I can do. |
| Margaret Waters Oswego |
| Mary Paye Pennellville NY I
love where I live and love it just the way it is. I live and work in
Phoenix and do not want to be in a community that slaughters cattle
daily let alone the environmental impact! |
| Jessica Helm, Rocky Point No CAFOs for NY. |
| Deedee Dillingham, Liverpool I detest the thought of one of our cities slaughtering 600 cattle a day. I also detest infringing upon family farms. Factory farms are abysmal for the animals (and the environment), and we don't want one here. Folks are leaning toward food grown in their own community. Animals should be free to roam and not to be fed antibiotics and hormones, and consumers should be able to eat foods that are local. Although I'm a vegetarian, I support family farms and not the factories where the animals suffer so greatly before they land on the dinner table. |
| Kimberley Wituszynski Clay NY I am against this for humane reasons as well as evironmental. |
| Susan Huniford Pennellville NY I don't think that it is the right business for our area. I'm concerned about the local environment. I am not in favor of mass production of a food source. After watching documentaries regarding small farm production compared to large means of production of our food sources I am not convinced that this produces safe food for consumption. I have experienced recalls of beef that I have purchased from a large chain store
and it's scary to think that we may have been exposed to harmful
bacteria. I think that the Town of Schroeppel needs to better assess
it's need to raise tax revenue and at what cost these opportunities will impact our health and community. |
| Lori Cook Oswego NY |
| Melissa Hunt Tully NY |
| Neal J. Cunningham Camillus |
| Mary C. Marsden Marcellus New York WE need to support our family farms, this is not good for anyone all across America. |
| Lori Cook Oswego Absolutely not! This type of factory should not be alowed here or anywhere. This many cattle in one spot spells disaster. Cow diseases could run rampant and spread to our local farmers! Do we really want to take this chance. Not to mention it's and inhumane treatment of cows!!! When will the killing stop for the almighty dollar? Shame on us for the devistaion that we've already caused to our eco system, and enviroment by destroying our animal and plant life. We should be working to correct our actions, not add to the mess we've created. |
| Tom Razey Pennellville NY |
| Raquel Wolfe Orchard Park NY |
| Eustachio Alberici Phoenix |
| Jennifer Alberici Phoenix |
| Timothy Barnhart Phoenix A bunch of low paying jobs isn't worth the decrease in the value of our properties, the negative effects on the environment, and the unknown health risks. Dont let this happen. |
| Jennifer Lincoln Phoenix NY |
| Tim Aguilar Pennellville NY |
| Cherie Anderson Pennellville NY This is not good for anything. I don't want to live near a slaughter house |
| Trina Campbell Pennellville NO WAY GO AWAY!!!!! |
| jill harrington fulton I do not want something like that in my ack yard where I raise my kids. Take it some where else, were there are not alot of people. |
| Joanne Paino Oswego NY |
| Santina Paino Oswego NY |
| Frank A Paino Oswego NY |
| Sam Eschenbrenner Syracuse, NY |
| Charlene Brearey Marion NY OMG, this is outrageous! |
| Ralph Brearey Marion NY This must be stopped! |
| Jennifer Lincoln Fulton This is not a sustainable industry! We don't want this type of operation in Oswego county. |
| Christopher Hockey, Fulton This is not a sustainable industry! We don't want this type of operation in Oswego county. |
| Melissa Hockey, Fulton NY |
| Cathy : Flynn West Monroe |
| Andrea Barnhart Phoenix Please do not let this happen. There are too many questions with no good answers. I don't want to raise my family in a place of pollution, health risks, and the stench of a slaughterhouse. Do the right thing Schroeppel and just SAY NO!! |
| sandra Karl Fayetteville NY We don't want factory farming here |
| Amanda Richardson Rochester NY |
| Rebekah Searles Cortland NY |
| Tricia Little Syracuse NY www.eatwild.com/products/newyork.html |
| Melinda Whalen Clay NY I am againist this Project it is so wrong these animals do not deserve to be housed and slaughtered like this. I hope this does not pass it is inhumane. |
| Laura Bobis Chapel Hill NC |
| Sybil Gouchie Phoenix NY Absolutely opposed to the slaughterhouse. It seems like common sense that this would negatively impact the community and local farmers in so many ways. |
| June & Phil MacArthur Oswego NY We our totally against this 72,000 head beef factory being considered for Oswego County. It would destroy much of our beauty and bring environmental disaster to our water, land and air. |
| alex hamer Syracuse NY |
| Phyllis Renfrew Phoenix NY |
| Jeanette Capria-Lazzaro Syracuse NY |
| Maureen Hann Dunmore PA Keep Upstate NY waters clean... |
| joyce suslovic Dewitt NY Oswego County does not need this animal factory to hurt property values, and pollute! |
| Richard Ameele Pennellville |
| Margaret Bocsor Phoenix NY At the public forum on July 14, 2010, the Bion representatives gave the impression that they will only build the plant and then someone else will operate it. Too many unanswered questions; they have no proven track record. There is serious risk in transporting animals into this area from around the country; this will pose a health threat to existing local livestock. The proposed operation is too big and not necessary. |
| marcia ricker Fulton NY responsibility belongs to us all |
| Rebekah Searles Cortland NY |
| D Root Camillus NY |
| Jayme J Fabbri Syracuse NY Support Local Farmers |
| Jim Sinclair Syracuse NY Doesn't belong here. Doesn't belong anywhere |
| Lesley Galle Pennellville I am not willing to support anything that my adversely effect my children. Do not need this ruining our area. |
| Felicity Brach Rochester NY This is insane. Stop eating the flesh of another sentient being!!! |
| Dan musclow Syracuse This is horrible! |
| Rose Viviano Syracuse NY |
| Alexis Stubbe Rochester NY |
| Cindy Williams Central Square NO BION ANYWHERE!! |
| Mary Berrus Lowville NY i am not a vegetarian, but this is terrible |
| Kimberly Pedrotti Syracuse NY |
| Karen Antczak, DVM Syracuse NY We already have too much animal death and environmental destruction in our area. Bion needs to go away. |
| Felicity Brach Rochester NY Sickening, outrageous, cruel, etc. |
| Jill Van Vlack Newburgh This is horrible, and inhumane |
| Marcia Zogg Phoenix NY |
| Alison Wencek Pennellville |
| Fred Watson Baldwinsville |
| Michelle Scaman Anchorage AK This is an abomination! Citizens need to do everything in our power to stop this! |
| Renee Crandall Marcellus Factory farming is tragic for the animals and the meat consumer. |
| Sarah de Maintenon, Schroeppel No Bion |
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VOLNEY Gregory Hartranft, 248 Howard Rd., Fulton 13069 593-3872 Edward Wavle, 36 Emery Rd., cell 591-1107 Fulton 13069 e-mail: Ewavle@DC4.org Carl Rusaw, 1445 Co. Rt. 6, 593-1581 Fulton 13069 Kelvin Kio, 3545 Co. Rt. 57, 343-9110 Fulton 13069 e-mail: kkio@twcny.rr.com |
| WEST MONROE Gary Ross, 46 Co. Rt. 11, West Monroe 13167 668-7652 fax 676-3520 e-mail: westmonroesupervisor@alltel.net |
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WEST MONROE Debra Macdougal, 263 Co. Rt. 84, West Monroe 13167 668-3001 Michael Hickey, 72 Co. Rt. 84, West Monroe 13167 668-3521 Kelley Davis, 164 Co. Rt. 84, West Monroe 13167 668-7933 Randy Seaman, 328 Helinger Rd., 668-8479 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN John Hamblin, 553 St. Rt. 13, 964-2381 |
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