Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: development, Duchniak, Great Lakes Council of Governors, Lake Michigan, Longtine, Midwest Environmental Advocates, population, Sinykin, water, Waukesha, Waukesha Water Utility, Wisconsin Environmental Action League
By Sean Ryan
Environmental groups are suspicious of the development projections Waukesha is using to justify its request for Lake Michigan water.
“We are concerned about the land use and population estimates,” said Laurie Longtine, co-chairwoman of the Wisconsin Environmental Action League’s water team. “There’s some very suspect numbers and formulas in figuring that out.
“It really assumes [...]
Published: December 7, 2009
Tags: concentrated animal feeding operation permit, dairy, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, expansion, Gordon Stevenson, Jamie Saul, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Ostrom, public hearing, Rosendale Dairy, slam-dunk, Stevenson, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Paul Snyder
The owners of the Rosendale Dairy are so confident they will receive the final state permit for an estimated $35 million expansion, they already started the second phase of construction.
The concentrated animal feeding operation permit from the state Department of Natural Resources would let the farm in Rosendale add 4,000 cows. The expansion [...]
Published: November 27, 2009
Tags: Baumann, Bureau of Watershed Management, DNR, EPA, Lawton, Lyon, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Municipal Environmental Group, phosphorous, Rice Lake Utilities, Thom, U.S. Environmental Protection, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Environmental groups can expect a fight if they follow through with their threat to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to encourage new rules regulating phosphorous levels in water.
Seven environmental organizations are trying to get the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources or EPA to mandate limits on the amount of phosphorous and nitrogen [...]
