NEXT Renewable Fuels

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined that NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc.’s current proposal to construct a diesel refinery at Port Westward requires another major federal permit. Represented by Advocates for the West, Columbia Riverkeeper and 1000 Friends of Oregon in 2024 sued the Army Corps for failing to require this permit, which would protect levee infrastructure from NEXT’s […]

We’re joined by Clatskanie, OR-area residents and farmers Tracy Prescott-MacGregor and Scott MacGregor, Columbia Riverkeeper Staff Attorney Audrey Leonard, and Advocates for the West Staff Attorney Andrew Missel to discuss the misguided NEXT refinery proposal in the Columbia River Estuary. The second largest of its kind in the nation, the NEXT refinery’s energy-intensive process to […]