Cascade Pacific Pulp, LLC v. Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP

Plaintiff Cascade Pacific Pulp, LLC (Cascade) and defendant Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP (Georgia-Pacific) are the present owners of adjoining mills in Halsey, Oregon. The two mills, paper and pulp, were once part of an integrated facility with a single owner, and they share a common infrastructure, including a water treatment system and an effluent discharge system. After the two mills came under separate ownership (by the parties’ predecessors-in-interest), disputes arose concerning the use of the shared infrastructure. The disputes were resolved in the early 1990s by way of a…