Oregon Attorney to Assist in Kauai Dairy Dispute
Friends of Mahaulepu opposes the agricultural facility proposed for the island’s south side.
The Garden Island has this item about legal representation regarding a controversial Kauai dairy. Excerpt:
An Oregon-based environmental attorney who successfully represented a community group in Washington state in a lawsuit against an industrial dairy in Yakima Valley has agreed to represent Friends of Mahaulepu in its fight to stop the dairy proposed for Kauai’s Southside.
“The damage that can be done by a facility of the size proposed is irreparable,” said attorney Charlie Tebbutt. …
In January, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice of Spokane ruled that Cow Palace, a more than 11,000-cow dairy in Yakima County, polluted groundwater through its application, storage and management of manure, posing an “imminent and substantial endangerment” to the environment and to people who drink the water.
In that case, Tebbutt represented the Granger-based Community Association for Restoration of the Environment. …
On Kauai, Hawaii Dairy Farms, a company backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Ulupono Initiative, is planning to build a $17.5 million, 578-acre dairy in Mahaulepu Valley. …
Omidyar is publisher of Honolulu Civl Beat.
To read more about his local interests, read Omidyar in Hawaii: The Billionaire in the Corner.
A dairy cow.
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