Data Centers And Industrial Farming Are Fueling A Groundwater Crisis, with Kaleb Lay
Rural Oregonians are being forced to drink contaminated water while corporations expand unchecked.
In this episode, Kaleb Lay of Oregon Rural Action explains how industrial agriculture and Amazon data centers are driving a nitrate crisis—and how residents are organizing for accountability in a region treated as a sacrifice zone.
We talk with Kaleb Lay from Oregon Rural Action about how people living in a rural Oregon “sacrifice zone” end up with poisoned well water, and a widening wealth gap. We explore environmentalist claims that industrial farming, combined with a rapid build-out of Amazon data centers is compounding deadly nitrate contamination while communities fight for testing, transparency, and accountability.