EUGENE, OR — Three people were arrested during a Monday protest at a wood-burning power plant in Eugene. The demonstration included several dozen environmental activists associated with Earth First! and Cascadia Forest Defenders. The protesters spoke out against Seneca Jones Timber Co.’s purchase of public forestland east of Reedsport and repeated previous claims that the Seneca Sustainable Energy biomass cogeneration plant is polluting the air in its neighborhood.
The Lane County sheriff’s office says it arrested three young men from Eugene. Two of them are accused of locking themselves to equipment inside the plant, with the help of the third protester.
Seneca General Manager Todd Payne called the protest a “slight inconvenience.”
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