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