BOARDMAN â Cody Easterday is still waiting for the Oregon Department of Agriculture to approve his application, submitted in June 2019, for a Confined Animal Feeding Operation near the city of Boardman.
Easterday, a 49-year-old rancher whose family owns a huge agricultural operation in Washington state, proposes to open a mega-dairy that would be the second-largest in Oregon. The Easterday Dairy would have up to 28,300 animals and use more water than most cities in the state.
The future of Easterday Dairy is in doubt, however. On March 31, Cody Easterday pleaded guilty to a âghost cattle scamâ that defrauded Tyson Foods and another company out of more than $244 million by charging for the purchase and feeding of animals that never existed.
Cheese in the Desert: Why Mega-Dairies are Piping Water onto Oregon’s Shrub-Steppe
An environmental coalition is lobbying for a moratorium on mega-dairies, which have proliferated in a water-challenged area of northeastern Oregon
In Boardman, Bombing Range Road divides a disused U.S. Navy bombing range (left) and large areas of irrigated land. On the right, Sage Hollow Ranch, one of several mega-dairies in the area, is permitted for up to 8,700 cows. Photo by NASHCO
This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Columbia Insight, Ensia, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. It was made possible by a grant from The Water Desk, with support from Ensia and INN’s Amplify News Project.
Pamplin Media Group March 16 2021
Local readers sound off on issues like bicycle safety, saving Oregon s dairy farms and preventing youth suicide through gun safety.
On March 4, the Oregon Legislature Joint Transportation Committee received 93 Oregonians testimony about the Bike Bill 2021 bill, Senate Bill 395. Only three were adversarial against its passage and one was semi-adversarial. The remaining 30 plus were positive.
We still have a crisis on the streets. Pedestrian deaths have increased. As a reminder, Portland, 2020 had its deadliest year since 1996 with a total of 54 traffic deaths. This city s fatalities included five cyclists & 18 pedestrians. Oregon had a total of 67 fatalities in 2020 which was up by 6% from 2019.
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Partners Group Buys District Heating Platform in Northern Europe from Fortum
Posted on 03/13/2021
Partners Group, on behalf of its clients, agreed to acquire one of the largest district heating platforms in the Baltics, from Finnish energy company Fortum Corporation. Fortum, which operates across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has 74 generation assets, which generate heat capacity of 881 MW and power capacity of 130 MW across 387 kilometers of district heating networks. The District Heating Platform’s fuel is largely derived from renewable or recycled sources, mainly biomass.
The total consideration on a debt- and cash-free basis is 800 million euros. Fortum expects to record a tax exempt capital gain of approximately 240 million euros in the City Solutions segment’s second-quarter 2021 results. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021.