In 2007, Bion Energy Technologies, Inc. proposed a cattle-and-ethanol business plan that would have built six 14,000-steer feedlots and a 50 million gallon ethanol production facility in St. Lawrence County, NY.

Citizens' Bion Forum developed as a repository for documents and a means of communication among people trying to figure out the likely costs and benefits of Bion's proposed project. The resources listed below include both documents consulted and documents created. Citations provide links either directly to the source document or to the website where the original document came from.

Note: Citizens' Bion Forum suffered a major server meltdown. Rebuilding the website is not yet complete, so if there's a document you think should be included, it may yet re-appear.

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Title Yearsort icon Author Full citation Original document
Letter from Oswego County EMC to Oswego County Legislature 2009 Carroll, Tim details
Position on the Proposed BION Ethanol Plant and Six Beef CAFOs 2008 Audubon Society (local chapters) details
Bion's Responses to IATF Questions 2008 Kapell, Jeff details
Bion's Responses to Shane Rogers interview with North Country Public Radio 2008 Morris and Kapell details
Letter from EMC to Bion Working Group, Jan 30, 2008 2008 Montan, Jon details
Letter to Governor Spitzer 2008 McClellan, Robin details
Economic Impact Assessment Critique 2008 Katz, David details
Economic Security Tour Presentation 2008 McClellan, Robin details
BOL Statement, November 2007 2007 Katz, David details
Bion's Responses to Legislator Cobb's Questions, July 28, 2007 2007 Kapell, Jeff details
Bion Working Group Letter to St Lawrence County EMC 2007 Jewett, McClellan, Powers, Proemm, Heidenreich details
Bion Mass Flow Chart 2007 McClellan, Robin details
Meeting Notes, Fact Gathering Session, July 10, 2007 2007 Gava, Louise details
Bion Corporation Corn Ethanol/CAFO Project 2007 Donnelly et al details
Truck Traffic Estimate 2007 Katz, David details
Economic Impact Assessment 2007 Bridge Associates details
Letter to the Editor 2007 McClellan, Robin details
Bion Working Group Position Paper 2007 Jewett, Gava, Heidenreich, McClellan, Powers, Proemm details
Animal Feeding Operations and Residential Land Value 2006 Ann Ulmer and Ray Massey details
Detecting and Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Fecal Pathogens Originating from Confined Animal Feeding Operations 2005 US Environmental Protection Agency details
Risk Assessment Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations 2004 US Environmental Protection Agency details
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Proximate Property Values 2001 John A. Kilpatrick details