Stakeholders
As a technology provider, Bion has had the opportunity to interface with stakeholders to the
issues of livestock industry nutrient and air emissions, including producers and their trade
associations, regulatory and public policy makers and the environmental community. The
difficulties of creating a “solution” by effectively integrating a proven technology into an
existing operation, the impact on farm economics of the cost to implement, and the
requirement for onsite skills to operate a compliance technology are real world issues.
We recognize that environmental concerns as well as the economics and scale of livestock
operations vary significantly from region to region. While no set public policy approach will
work everywhere, a set of public policy initiatives can be combined to flexibly support
widespread compliance by industry participants across differing circumstances. Each
region’s optimal mix of public policy and private industry action can evolve only through an
informed process of dialogue among the stakeholders.
The existence of a demonstrated compliance technology holds significant implications for
public policy formation. We offer the following discussion as a means to articulate options to
be included in those dialogues. In the end, it will be a combination of public policy initiatives
within each geographical area that will form the basis of support for widespread adoption by
industry of proven compliance.
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Information and Pubic Comment Forum on Bion's St. Lawrence County Integrated 42 million gallon and 84,000 head of cattle project.
- Oct 31, 2007 Report to St. Lawrence County (NY) Board of Supervisors and Bion Technologies on the Probability of Nuisance Odors from the Proposed Feeding Operations of Bion Technologies
Prepared by Philip K. Hopke, Stefan Grimberg, Shane Rogers
- Economic Impact Assessment For Proposed Bion Inc Investments in St. Lawrence County, New York
Gregory A. Gardner, PhD, Principle Researcher, Bridge Associates, P.O. Box 102, Adams, NY 13605
- BionTech = CleanTech - Executive Summary of the Environmental Advantages of Bion's Technology
Prepared by Bion's Craig Scott
- Stakeholder Public Policy Memo - Dec. 22, 2004
Prepared by Bion including:
- A summary of the air and nutrient emission reductions
- A discussion of public policy initiatives directed towards establishing sustainable incentives to create certainty and affordability to environmental compliance
- A top-level economic analysis regarding various implementation opportunities for Bion's technology
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