Public hearing draws calls to stop Walz Energy facility
ELKADER — Public sentiment was overwhelmingly against the Iowa Department of Natural Resources issuance of a storm water discharge permit for the Walz Energy facility east of Monona during a public hearing on the issue last Wednesday at the Clayton County Office Building in Elkader.
More than 30 of the 44 individuals who spoke at the two-hour hearing came out against the permit, which would allow construction of the proposed 10,000-head cattle operation and methane digester to continue.
“I see this project as a rare opportunity for the DNR and northeast Iowa in general,” McGregor’s Allison Bell said. “It’s not every day that a proposed project carries so much risk for so many with so little benefit for so few.”
Read the full article in the Wednesday, December 6, 2017 edition of The Outlook.
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