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Shut Down the Pellet Plant!

Activists are demanding transparency and an investigation by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors regarding the health hazards attributable to the Calpella Wood Pellet Plant.

Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council

The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council adopted a resolution declaring their “unequivocal opposition” to the wood pellet production plant in Calpella, California and “its operation by Forest Energy Corporation, Mendocino Forest Products and any other parties.”

Mendocino Forest Products pellet mill in Calpella, CA

Community members assert ongoing and uncorrected hazardous pollution being emitted from the Mendocino Forest Products wood pellet production plant in Calpella, Mendocino County, California.

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping in Santa Cruz at Borders, GAP, Starbucks, and Urban Outfitters.

California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel

A call for “full transparency” to “ensure the public is fully aware of any public health risks posed by the Woolsey Fire on Santa Susana Field Laboratory.”