Скачать или смотреть Dairy farms reduce climate impact with methane digesters, but communities worry about effects

(14 Jun 2024)
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Hillmar, California - 9 May 2024
1. Cows getting ready to be milked at Wickstrom Jersey Farms
2. Various of cows getting milked on rotating platform
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brent Wickstrom, Wickstrom Jersey Farms:
"This is Wickstrom Jersey farms. We milk about 2,500 cows here. Since 1973, we shipped to Hilmar Cheese. All our milk is produced into block cheese products."
4. Cows standing in water flushing out manure to lagoons
5. Various of cows in covered pen
6. Wickstrom walking on dairy digester capturing gas from lagoon at Wickstrom Jersey Farms
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brent Wickstrom, Wickstrom Jersey Farms:
"But while it's in there, the plastic cover is capturing all the methane that that manure liquid emits. So instead of going into the atmosphere, it's captured, and sent in a pipeline about 20 miles to their ethanol plant."
9. Aerial view of dairy digester
10. Wickstrom walking on dairy digester
11. Macias and Wickstrom standing next to uncovered lagoon on dairy farm
12. Machine separates out solids from manure

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Pixley, California - 20 May 2024
13. Aerial view of dairy digester on dairy farm

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Keyes, California - 9 May 2024
13. Aerial view of Aemetis ethanol biogas processing plant
14. Various of Aemetis biogas facility that processes methane from nearby dairy farms
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Macias, Vice President, Aemetis Biogas:
"In the last 5 to 7 years, companies like ourselves have come in, worked with the dairymen, resolved their methane mitigation issues, and then also provided them with the revenue stream."
16. Aerial view of plant processing digester gas

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Pixley, California - 20 May 2024
17. Aerial view of dairy digester on dairy farm
18. Various of cows on dairy farm
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Leslie Martinez, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability:
"This isn't like a small mom and pop firm. This is thousands of cows that are living next to people. A cow is producing waste, and we are incentivizing this waste to be produced next to poor communities."
20. Aerial view of Calgren ethanol and biogas facility that processes methane from nearby dairy farms
21. Beverly Whitfield eating lunch with friends
22. Beverly Whitfield stands in her backyard
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Beverly Whitfield, Pixley resident:
"We don't need any more cows here. Our town is not big enough for no more cows. We got enough cows here, and they pooping and everything else. And we smelling the poop and all that. I think we've had enough poop for a while."
24. Various of Maria Arevalo demonstrating respiratory she wears at night to treat sleep apnea
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Arevalo, longtime Pixley resident:
"Please help us, help us to breathe better air in Pixley and our communities around here."
26. Aerial view of digester on dairy farm

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Davis, California - 4 June 2024
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kleeman, UC Davis air pollution researcher:
"So the bottom line conclusion about dairy digesters in California is that they don't significantly impact the air pollution that we experience."

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Hillmar, California - 9 May 2024
38. Dairy digester on Wickstrom Jersey Farms

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Davis, California - 4 June 2024
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kleeman, UC Davis air pollution researcher:
"I do believe that the dairy digesters in the form that they're being used are a net benefit in reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

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Hillmar, California - 9 May 2024

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