The Women, Food and Agriculture Network, with partners Prairie Rivers Network, American Farmland Trust, and Friends of the Big Bureau Creek Watershed, are sponsoring a conservation workshop for women land owners in Bureau, Lee and LaSalle Counties. This event offers a peer-to-peer, informal discussion format which allows women landowners or managers to talk about their […]
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Concerns Over Proposed Mine are Growing
Concerns continue to grow over the proposed Sunrise “Bulldog” coal mine in Vermilion County. Water is among the top concerns: where the water will come from to wash the coal, and what will happen to the polluted water once it’s used in the mine. As part of the permit process to operate a mine, coal […]
Make Ameren Stick to Deal: LTE by Traci Barkley
In this Letter to the Editor (pdf), Traci Barkley, Water Resources Scientist at Prairie Rivers Network, calls on the Illinois Pollution Control Board to deny Ameren’s request for eight more years to comply with air pollution reductions for their Newton Power Station. Ameren agreed to these reductions more than six years ago; they are scheduled […]
Factory Farm vs. Property Owner in Dispute over Lamoine River Water
Scott Schauble, who owns a farm bordering the Lamoine River, came home one day to find water lines running across his driveway. These lines were being used to draw water from the river to replenish the water reserves of a neighboring hog factory farm. Schauble had recently been approached by his neighbor who offered him […]
Homer Water Committee Authorizes Further Study of Water Sale to Coal Mine
At the meeting of the Village of Homer Water Committee on Monday July 30th, approximately 50 residents packed the meeting hall to voice their opposition to Sunrise Coal, LLC’s request for the village of Homer to provide the mine with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water daily for their proposed “Bulldog” coal mine.
