Arkansas Blog

I have to ask/say this: The Arkansas River flows the breadth of Oklahoma, bringing its silt, trash and angricultural polluntants into our state on its journey to the Mississippi. To what degree this ranks I have no idea. But would it not behoove Arkansas to turn it around and call upon Oklahoma to clean up its portion of the Arkansas River before it gets to the Natural/Diamond State?

I like Beebe

I hate Oklahoma

But Edmonson is a good Democrat and is dead on in this lawsuit.

And its not about protecting the farmers...the farmers are treated like sharecroppers by Tyson's. They have no problems taking all the profits while putting all the the risk on the local farmer and then when somebody like the EPA steps in Tyson's hides behind the independent contractor agreement and pretends they have absolutely no connection.

Tyson has made a nice penny in this gambit I think it might be time they help the farmer and our environment

Beebe will fight Edmonson and screw the environment because Morril Harriman and the Poultry fat cats said jump and Mr. Beebe says how high.

Beebe better keep Jim Lendall off that ballot, becasue I will looking elsewhere to cast my vote.

Don't get me wrong...
Isn't it part of Mr Beebe's job to hold Tyson accountable? His "friendhsips" with the likes of Harriman and Kennedy are what keep Mr Beebe's vision scewed.

Oklahoma will continue to win because we're simply wrong and plum guilty.

He loses this fight. He loses Lakeview. Has Beebe ever won a substantial case as A.G.

I realize he won that one really big case in private practice that made him the multi-multi-millionaire that he is today, but his track record in his duties for the state is pitiful.

This wealthy white male, based on his public record in statewide office, is o.k. with higher energy cost because the power companies are his friends, he is o.k. with pollution because the chicken companies are his friend, he is totally impotent in representing the state's interest, and now he wants a promotion.

The lobbyists will tell you that everyone they talk to says Beebe will win. The only problem is that they are only talking to each other.

Another thing about Beebe is that he comes across great when he is in control of the situation. But he is extremely arrogant and has a hot temper that he usually controls pretty good. But what's going to happen when he gets in the heat of the campaign and someone starts questioning him on his votes in the Senate and has action as A.G....he is going to turn red in the face, blow his top, and snap at someone publicly. If this moment comes on camera it will be bye-bye Beebe.

I have a hard time, and little patience for, defending polluters and/or Big Chicken. To say that this is in defense of the chicken farmer is a red herring. The Arkies raising the chickens have no more say in how it is they grow chicken than an eighteenth century indentured servant to a rich land lord. Truth be told, Oklahoma is right. Arkansas is wrong. If corporate chicken wanted the farmers to farm in a more environmentally sound way, it would happen. They have chicken farmers by the mountain oysters and the rooster fries. In fact, farmers that have attempted to change Big Chicken have found themselves in receivership. Big Chicken finances their houses. Big Chicken supplies their chickens. Big Chicken buys their birds. Big chicken is soilant green.

In defense of the AG working to defend farming practice of Big Chicken, I have heard that Edmonson has retained the services of a Law Firm Famous for fighting Big Tobacco and that they now wish to reclassify nitrogen as a carcinogen. I have heard that this would destroy all forms of farming because fertilizer is nitrogen. I?ve heard that Big Chicken would pick up its marbles and go to Mexico if Oklahoma won.

What I?m not hearing is what our natural resources mean to our state in the form of tourism. The fact of the matter is, this is a problem for Arkansas too. Just ask the locals that fish the streams of Arkansas if they are seeing increased algae blooms. I myself have seen it on the White, the Little Red, and the Norfork. What causes this, you might ask. Well, nitrogen, increased nitrogen causes this. The nitrogen and erosion run-off from construction and development in the watershed cause this.

Is Arkansas (specifically ADEQ) doing anything to curb this?

NO!

Arkansas is considering severely weakening the rules that protect our most pristine streams, rivers and lakes. Comments to the Arkansas Pollutions Control and Ecology Commission (PC&E) are due by this Friday -- June 3. Please send your comments telling PC&E not to weaken the rules for Extraordinary Resource Waters to reg-comment@adeq.state.ar.us by no later than June 2 at 4:30 pm. Regular mail to: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Public Outreach and Assistance Division; P.O. Box 8913; Little Rock, AR 72219-8913

I meant toxic waste. They would have nitrogen reclassified as a toxic waste, not a carcinogen.