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.
Please email if you have questions, comments, or suggestions for items that should be included on the citation list.
| Title |
Year |
Author | Full citation | Original document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Proximate Property Values | 2001 | John A. Kilpatrick | details | document |
| Risk Assessment Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations | 2004 | US Environmental Protection Agency | details | document |
| Detecting and Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Fecal Pathogens Originating from Confined Animal Feeding Operations | 2005 | US Environmental Protection Agency | details | document |
| Animal Feeding Operations and Residential Land Value | 2006 | Ann Ulmer and Ray Massey | details | document |
| BOL Statement, November 2007 | 2007 | Katz, David | details | document |
| Bion's Responses to Legislator Cobb's Questions, July 28, 2007 | 2007 | Kapell, Jeff | details | document |
| Bion Working Group Letter to St Lawrence County EMC | 2007 | Jewett, McClellan, Powers, Proemm, Heidenreich | details | document |
| Bion Mass Flow Chart | 2007 | McClellan, Robin | details | document |
| Meeting Notes, Fact Gathering Session, July 10, 2007 | 2007 | Gava, Louise | details | document |
| Bion Corporation Corn Ethanol/CAFO Project | 2007 | Donnelly et al | details | document |
| Truck Traffic Estimate | 2007 | Katz, David | details | document |
| Economic Impact Assessment | 2007 | Bridge Associates | details | document |
| Letter to the Editor | 2007 | McClellan, Robin | details | document |
| Bion Working Group Position Paper | 2007 | Jewett, Gava, Heidenreich, McClellan, Powers, Proemm | details | document |
| Probability of Nuisance Odors from the Proposed Feeding Operations of Bion Technologies | 2007 | Hopke, Grimberg, & Rogers | details | document |
| The Potential Role of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Infectious Disease Epidemics and Antibiotic Resistance | 2007 | Gilchrest et al | details | document |
| Position on the Proposed BION Ethanol Plant and Six Beef CAFOs | 2008 | Audubon Society (local chapters) | details | document |
| Bion's Responses to IATF Questions | 2008 | Kapell, Jeff | details | document |
| Bion's Responses to Shane Rogers interview with North Country Public Radio | 2008 | Morris and Kapell | details | document |
| Letter from EMC to Bion Working Group, Jan 30, 2008 | 2008 | Montan, Jon | details | document |
| Letter to Governor Spitzer | 2008 | McClellan, Robin | details | document |
| Economic Impact Assessment Critique | 2008 | Katz, David | details | document |
| Economic Security Tour Presentation | 2008 | McClellan, Robin | details | document |
| Bion task force gets few answers | 2008 | North Country Public Radio | details | document |
| Letter from Oswego County EMC to Oswego County Legislature | 2009 | Carroll, Tim | details | document |
| Bion shelves feedlot, ethanol plans | 2009 | North Country Public Radio | details | document |