Over 185 community, business, and environmental organizations have opposed two wood pellet projects in California as part of a public comment period in regards to the projects.
The comment period, now closed, looked at the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) on two proposed Golden State Natural Resources (GSNR) plants that would produce more than one million metric tons of wood pellets per year drew comments from more than 45,000 individuals.
The proposed project would include two industrial-scale wood pellet processing facilities, one in the foothills of the Central Sierra Nevada Mountain range, in Tuolumne County, and one in the Modoc Plateau of Northern California, in Lassen County. The finished pellets would then be shipped by rail to the Port of Stockton for international shipping…