The Arkansas Conservation Alliance exists to promote the health and well being of all Arkansans through improved education, communication, and legislation to preserve, restore, and place appropriate value upon natural resources in Arkansas.
S. 1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.
Contact your Senators to get the buzz going again. Our aquifers are the source of water for the farms that feed our families. One can only imagine the outcome if nothing is done...
The Arkansas Senate Committee on Health and Public Welfare gets a bill that would allow small farmers to legally sell raw cow's milk today. Here's a video made in support of raw milk in California:
GreenArBytheDay has some more detailed information on today's meeting here.
A bill to allow the sale of whole, unhomogenized, milk cleared the house Public Health, Labor and Welfare Committee today despite objections by the Arkansas Department of Health. One wonders if the Department of Health might find anything of nutritional value on the shelves in one of the hundreds of Mini-Marts that speckle Arkansas Highways?
One might also imagine the venue where the Department of Health might argue against the inclusion of hydrogentated fats or other "food stuffs" that Arkansas children must sort through in search of adequate nutrition. It's quite amazing that the Department of Health takes a public stand against a bill aimed at restoring health yet says nothing against a problem of alarming dimensions.
The bill allows only for sales up to 100 gallons per year. That's no big dairy. Check out how they roll in California:
There was absolutely no mention of proactive alternative energy
strategy from the Arkansas Public Service Commission in today's report
to the Joint Congressional Committee on Energy. However, Senator Kim Hendren, the chair of the committee, solicited ideas on alternative energy strategy from all comers.
(Senator Hendren, might we offer a couple of stories on underwater river hydro from Ontario and , more recently, one from Minnesota. )
We've heard from the Public Service Commission that the Arkansas power grid is not suited to accept wind and solar energy. When do we expect to begin the process of preparation?
The sunlight shone upon the Earth in a half year contains more energy than all the remaining coal, petroleum, and natural gas. And most people, save a few Exxon subsidized "scientists" who visited this same committee last week, believe that burning fossil fuels must cease sooner than later.
Heck, even some retired petroleum executives have publicly stated that fossil fuels are only a short term fix at this point. Hopefully someone will alert the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
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