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Mon, 07/07/2014 - 12:00am
Activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders and Earth First! target Eugene company
Activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders and Earth First! converged on the Seneca Jones biomass plant in Eugene this morning to protest the company’s privatization of public lands in the Elliott State Forest and ongoing pollution in West Eugene.
Several protestors locked themselves to equipment at the plant, effectively blocking the “truck dump” where biomass is loaded into the incinerator.
The plant releases an estimated 17,900 pounds of air toxins into West Eugene Neighborhoods annually.
There are three schools within three miles of the Seneca biomass facility.
For more information, KBOO’s Ken Jones spoke with Grace Warner of Cascadia Forest Defenders.
If you’d like to read more about today’s Seneca Biomass Plant protest, go to forestdefensenow.com. You can also donate to the protestors’ defense fund on this site.
Several protestors locked themselves to equipment at the plant, effectively blocking the “truck dump” where biomass is loaded into the incinerator.
The plant releases an estimated 17,900 pounds of air toxins into West Eugene Neighborhoods annually.
There are three schools within three miles of the Seneca biomass facility.
For more information, KBOO’s Ken Jones spoke with Grace Warner of Cascadia Forest Defenders.
If you’d like to read more about today’s Seneca Biomass Plant protest, go to forestdefensenow.com. You can also donate to the protestors’ defense fund on this site.
- KBOO
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