Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This two part series is published in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part two, which focuses on Drax’s planned operations on the West Coast, by clicking here. All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology.

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This is the second article in a series produced in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part one, about Drax’s operations in the Southeast US, by clicking here. Since 2022, Drax Group has had its sights fixed on a new pellet mill, in the small northwestern city of Longview, nestled on the Columbia river in Washington state, some 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon.

Sep 30, 2024 | theintercept.com | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology. In 2014, an industrial facility producing wood pellets opened so close to her house in Gloster, Mississippi, that she could overhear conversations between managers and staffers as they worked and smell the fumes the plant pumped into the air. Dobbins, a 59-year-old mother of two, relies on an oxygen tank to breathe, as do her sister and her brother-in-law, who also live in the town.

Sep 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

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Jun 21, 2024 | landclimate.org | Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Gunadasa* doesn’t follow politics, so the 72 year old farmer learned the news in May 2021 at a local meeting run by the Department for Agrarian Development. He would no longer receive the subsidised fertiliser he and his wife Kusuma* had long used to grow paddy, sesame, corn, and beans at their small farm in Anuradhapura District. Neither, in fact, would any other farmer in Sri Lanka.