2012-01-19 Eugene Weekly

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TO THE EDITOR
THE TIME HAS COME awfully, no introduction, no support from
The Bijou’s presentation of Revenge those who invited me to be there. Every
of the Electric Car is a welcome sequel negative stereotype about the movement
to Who Killed the Electric Car? a decade was proven true.
ago. The opposition has become an I’m not angry, mostly just amused. You
advocate. Ten years ago there was only want to make a change in the way things
one struggling EV maker in Eugene, today work in your world? Perhaps focus more
there are several Oregon-based companies on how you conduct business with people
involved in EVs and a network of charging in your everyday life. How’s that for a
infrastructure is growing. Yet most of us realistic fi rst step?
drive locally by ourselves on a daily basis. Chris Castles
Smaller, affordable EVs such as the Eugene
BugE (www.BugEv.net) and Arcimo-
to (www.Arcimoto.com) offer us an alterna- GRUESOME OMSI EXHIBIT
tive to expensive EVs and reduce conges- I thought it would be more educational.
tion as well. I would hope someone could I didn’t expect to be as appalled as I was
fi nd a way to stimulate production of these by the array of human bodies so deformed,
lighter, locally made vehicles for our envi- under the guise of science (see www.omsi.
ronmental and economic benefi t. Jobs in edu/bodyworlds). It was a pornographic
our community making electric vehicles is and offensive display of defi led cadavers
an idea whose time has come. and strategically maneuvered body parts.
Mark Murphy Nipples, penises and vulvas left intact,
Creswell bodies displayed in sexualized positions,
skulls split open, organs removed and
LEGITMATE TARGETS costs that are of the most concern. One of Afro-Cuban All Stars and most importantly rearranged beside their host, parts shuffl ed
I have not owned a car for more than 40 these uncounted costs is cancer — brain to African-American musical traditions, about for the artistic effect, not for
years, but I still help to produce greenhouse cancer. the Skatalites. That took not just door educational value.
gas emissions. Members of the Eugene Trained researchers in this area are the money but love, and I know how hard all I felt mentally assaulted by this exhibit.
City Council and other elected offi cials fi rst to admit not all the answers are in. It my neighbors try to make every day here I went there to learn about anatomy, but
have a much heavier responsibility: They is true that all sources of electromagnetic in the wet Northwest tight, right and boss. I left feeling disturbed, with unwanted
formulate government policies which can radiation are increasing. At the same time And someone appreciates your smiles, images of unnatural and horrifi c corpses.
encourage driving by supporting highways rare brain cancers are on the increase, your money, your showing-the-fuck-up to And the educational blurbs beside each
while not improving public transit. especially for the elderly and the very the shows, your goofy dancing and most of abomination won’t add to the knowledge
Lane County bus service has actually young. What is unclear is the causality. all that love, to love your music and your of anyone who has taken basic anatomy
become worse even though the global Given this situation, any good public people. There is nothing like home. classes. I didn’t appreciate being fooled
warming crisis has grown more acute. utility would seek to reduce all sources I love you, Eugene, because in the cold into witnessing a madman’s morally
Elected offi cials could play a signifi cant of dangers and potential dangers for their of winter you warm my scarred heart. Take objectionable manipulation of bodies.
role in causing the deaths of millions of customers (owners). But this is not what care. Peace. The ad representing this exhibit shows
people in global warming disasters. They is happening here in Eugene. EWEB is Donovan Worland the muscles of the human form, without
are thus legitimate targets for political justifying and pushing smart meters that Eugene changing the form itself. The original
protests, at their homes or elsewhere. will increase radio frequency emissions Body Worlds exhibit was tamer. The
Milton Takei throughout the area, with unknown TAKE THE BUTTE former people within the Body Worlds
Eugene consequences. After reading your recent articles (and and the Brain exhibit are monstrous,
EWEB money comes from ratepayers other news reports) about the Occupy gruesomely chopped up and rearranged. A
VOTE FOR VETS and I resent paying for unneeded meters encampment and its dismantling by psychopath’s wet dream.
Among our local leaders involved in that increase the electromagnetic fi elds Scrooge-like cops just before Christmas, I was sad to see a toddler in there. I hope
veterans’ issues, there is one leader who we are all exposed to. Rather than taking and then Parvin Butte and its dismantling the little boy doesn’t have nightmares.
stands out: Commissioner Pete Sorenson. a conservative approach like many by illegal mining. I’ve got a simple, three- There should’ve been a warning for parents
As a longtime veteran advocate, a Vietnam other cities, EWEB is rushing headlong word suggestion: Occupy Parvin Butte! who think they are taking their children to
Era veteran, a former Oregon president of into deploying a potentially dangerous AmyCat =^.^= learn about anatomy. There should have
the Vietnam Veterans of America and com- technology with few, if any, benefi ts to aka Amy Carpenter been an age limit. I don’t understand how
mander of the American Legion Post 3, I ratepayers. Eugene this is legal. After leaving OMSI, I was
worked with Commissioner Sorenson to We can only hope that enough people very relieved that we chose not to take our
energize the services provided by the Lane just say no, examine the issue and stop this LITTLE THINGS COUNT children.
County Veteran Services Offi ce (VSO). I unwise, dangerous and expensive project. I was asked to host a fundraiser for Brandy Gordon, R.N.
can say, without a doubt, that had if it not Michael Lee Occupy. The event was set to take place at Eugene
been for Sorenson’s leadership we would not Eugene Sam Bonds on Jan. 5 and the “organizers”
have the VSO as it is today. With him there told me that we would get together and go ABSURD NUMBERS
on the job, Lane County’s veterans are bet- MAKING IT HERE over the itinerary. Bob Cassidy (letters, 12/22) quotes
ter served. Not only are Lane County’s more To my beloved EW: I want to thank They contacted me on New Year’s economist David Cay Johnston as saying
than 27,000 veterans better served, but their you for a great year. You all should have Eve around 5 pm, wanting to see if I that for every dollar that someone in the
spouses, children and other dependents. followed up on the sex traffi cking in this was available that night. Seemed like a 99 percent earns, someone in the top 1
I am in strong support of Sorenson’s state more heavily. That was a great story. ridiculous time to have a meeting, but I percent earned $7,500. Let’s subject that
re-election. You all have done a good job illuminating agreed to meet them. Nobody ever showed. to some simple plausibility testing. Let’s
Judi Greig Lawson the homeless situation, especially for Three days later they want to meet take the 99 percent to represent about 200
Dexter youth, and there is a great more to be again, no apology or mention of the botched million working age adults. Let’s suppose
spelled out for people here until we all meeting. I am told that I have been replaced they each earn around $25,000. That’s
EWEB MICRO-MATH decide to really do something about the as host due to some miscommunication $5 trillion annually. At 7,500:1, the top
Recently in letters (12/29) Lance fact that this community can’t feed and amongst the organizers, but since my 1 percent would earn almost 75 times as
Robertson from EWEB claims to “set house its offspring — yeah, I said it. name was printed in the Weekly, I can still much as everyone else, or $375 trillion.
the record straight” about “smart meters” I also want to thank the mods, punks, perform. A text would have suffi ced. That’s more than 25 times the GDP of
planned for customers and coming soon. skinheads, soulies, fi ghters, bartenders, The night of the show, the bar is fully the entire nation. I haven’t bothered to refi ne
His arguments are all about costs and he doormen and folks that have made being a occupied. The host wants me to go over my these numbers. The fi gure $7,500 is not just
claims the microwave-emitting meters on soul, ska and reggae DJ boss. Yeah, that’s set with him to make sure I’m not going wrong, it’s absurdly wrong when subjected
homes will “only” cost $352 each. John Henry’s, Diablo’s, Luckey’s, Cowfi sh to say anything offensive. In my fi ve years to the simplest test of reasonableness. Why
The trouble with this micro-math is that — thanks for being fi ne mates! This year as a comic, this is a fi rst. I’m just going did it deserve to be published?
not all true costs are counted. The dollars we got Miss Sharon Jones, Budos Band, to tell jokes, and if anybody is offended, Rob Spooner
wasted are bad enough, but it is uncounted The Aggrolites, The Slackers, The Beat, I would be surprised. The show went Florence
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TO THE EDITOR
SHOELESS AMONG BOOKS Why are smokers allowed to continue
Since City Manager Richard Meyer to contaminate our air and litter our
of Cottage Grove ignored my fi rst letter, sidewalks and public pathways with their
I now write regarding the Cottage Grove stinky cigarette butts?
library. I appreciate the library a great I sometimes suffer severe migraine
deal, but recently witnessed an elderly headaches because of cigarette smoke.
man threatened with police action and I doubt I am the only one unnecessarily
banishment from the library by Director sickened by inconsiderate smokers.
Pete Barrell in a short-tempered and Diane Van Orden
inappropriate manner. The victim, Graham Springfi eld
Lawrence, was mistreated for walking
barefoot, which he does typically. When TAXING FALLS SHORT
traveling soon?
Barrell actually threatened him after being Wow, it is pretty simple. In the 1950s
asked why the policy exists, there was no through the 1970s, when people’s incomes
medical advice for global travelers
warning, no offer to discuss in another surpassed a certain point, that extra income
setting. was taxed upward from 90 percent. t t c
he ravel linic
I’d been told before that shoes are Contrast this to current times when the tax
required and the librarian had said she “did on really, really high income is 35 percent.
John D. Wilson, M.D.
not need to explain the policy.” As public It is pretty ironic that the ’50s, ’60s, and
1200 Hilyard St., Suite S-560
servants, actually they are supposed to early ’70s — referred to as an economic
541/343-6028
have reason for their policies and ought to Golden Age — is when taxes on high
have no problem explaining them politely. earners was much higher than now. Do the www.TravelClinicOregon.com
The argument that bare feet are political pundits know their history? QuestionsQ?u eEstmionasi?l u Esm aati lt ursa avt etrlacvlienlcilcinoirce34g3o6n0.2384 @3- [email protected]
somehow dirty does not hold; they are People from well-to-do families with
typically cleaner than shoes. Bacterial their physical needs, emotional wellness,
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they need to post a sign saying that it is that we all have a fair shot regardless of
a person’s own risk to enter barefoot, let circumstances is profoundly untrue.
them. There is no liability implicit. I am I have been working in human services
still waiting for an explanation and believe and it is getting to the point where we
the silence shows there is no good reason. cannot do our jobs because the funding
Moreover, the police force is clearly not is not there. People are dying and people
needed to deal with a peaceful guy with no who are in dire need cannot get access
explore
shoes! to services because the money has been
At the very least I want the library slowly receding over the past 30 years. GOOD EARTH
SHOP
director to write Lawrence an apology and Thirty years? That sounds familiar. Oh
Café & Music Stage
respect citizenry in the future. wait, that is the time the Congressional
250
Benjamin Raymond Selker Budget Offi ce found that the income of
Cottage Grove the top 1 percent has gone up 275 percent.
Coincidence? I think not. Any politician,
BUTTS ARE SICKENING lobbying fi rm or think tank that tries to sustainable
I am writing to extend a belated thank pretend the troubles in our economy and exhibits
you to the author of an EW viewpoint society are outside of this imbalance are
article published a couple months ago blowing smoke onto the issue. Please keep homes
(10/13/11) on the problem of a proliferation that in mind in terms of any activism and
gardens
of cigarette butts littering our local outdoor during the next two election cycles.
food
public spaces. Kerstin Britz
2 go
Yesterday I was riding my bicycle along Cottage Grove
the beautiful and extensive Eugene park arts
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local issues. Please limit length to 200 words, keep submis-
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sions to once a month, and include your address and phone living
and fresh air when I was assailed by number for our files. Email to [email protected] fax
to 484-4044, or mail to 1251 Lincoln St., Eugene 97401.
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$121,680. So, the total cost for maintaining the nurses on
• We know that our messy democracy is all about
their old plans is approximately $621,680 per year!” anybody running for office if she/he wants to. Witness
Steiner says, “That’s a bald-faced lie. The administrator the Republican primary. But it’s too bad when two
is not being honest about that; there’s no validation for it.” progressive Eugene environmentalists run against each
other, draining money and energy from the real fight
He says with only 63 nurses on staff, that means the
against the local extreme right, which is increasingly
county would be paying $9,500 per nurse to track them on
using its deep pockets, the courts and the press to
COUNTY NURSES their plan, which he calls “ridiculous.” attack dreaded liberals like Lane County Commissioner
“Our nurses bring a ton of revenue in,” Steiner says. He Pete Sorenson. We wonder why state Sen. Floyd
MAY STRIKE estimates it at more than $2 million a year for the county Prozanski has signed on with his bicycling buddy Andy
Stahl against Pete. Some politicos speculate that the
and asks, “Why are they screwing around with our nurses
backdrop here is the congressional seat held by
Lane County nurses represented by Local 2831 of the when our nurses bring in money?”
Democrat Peter DeFazio. When DeFazio tires of that
American Federation of State, County and Municipal For more information on the possible strike go to www. weekly Eugene-D.C. flight, who will go after his seat?
Employees (AFSCME) have set a tentative strike date for oregonafscme.com. Maybe all the above; maybe none.
Jan. 23 after months of negotiations with the county over — Camilla Mortensen
• Lane County’s redistricting Ordinance 9-11, pushed
their contract, and in particular health insurance.
through late last year by the Tea Party majority on the
There are about 60 nurses working for Lane County in LTD SEES GAIN County Commission, is in the hands of the Oregon
positions such as Lane County Mental Health, the jail, in Court of Appeals, but this tricky case without legal
schools and as home visiting nurses for at-risk moms and IN RIDERSHIP precedents won’t be resolved anytime soon. Looks like
babies. According to a statement on the AFSCME website, the May primary elections will go ahead with the new
district boundary lines. Attorney David Force says he
the nurses also conduct “the epidemiological investigative With college students taking over Eugene and the
will file the next round of paperwork with the court in
work that keeps communicable diseases at bay and additional EmX line to the Gateway area, Lane Transit
February and he expects oral arguments to happen in
administers thousands of immunizations a year.” The District has seen a 2.4 percent increase in ridership for the April or May, with a decision coming in summer or fall.
nurses “generally serve lower-income clients who depend first six months of its fiscal year. This could bode well for “If the Court of Appeals finds in our favor,” he says,
on our services for their medical care,” the statement says. ridership on the proposed West 11th EmX line. “Lane County probably will appeal it to Oregon’s
Supreme Court. We also will have that option if the
Union representative Jim Steiner says health insurance Since July 1, the district has recorded 5.2 million
Court of Appeals rules against us.” Kudos to the folks
is a particular concern for the nurses because they have customer boardings, with October and November each
who are pushing this case in an attempt to make our
more exposure to diseases, particularly those nurses exceeding one million, according to LTD. commissioners accountable to the thousands of
working in public health. This rise is likely due to the increasing number of UO citizens who are affected by their unabashed
The nurses say there are currently eight nursing and LCC students who ride the campus area routes, gerrymandering.
vacancies at the county and “we fear there will be many according to Andy Vobora, a spokesman for LTD.
• Can you really be terrorized by an event you slept
more as employees leave Lane County for more lucrative The Oregonian reports that Portland’s transit service,
through or otherwise didn’t even notice? Emails from
positions, given the actions being taken by the county.” TriMet, whose ridership is also up, speculates its increase City Councilor George Poling indicate he didn’t know
In a statement issued to the media, Lane County says may be due to a desire to be distracted while riding the topless Occupy Eugene-related “Vagilutionaries”
one of its “primary interests is having the nurses unit move — texting and reading on trips. LTD doesn’t have wireless beat their gong outside his house until someone sent
him the YouTube video the next day. Poling was soon
to a new health plan that more than 1,000 county employees and doesn’t plan on offering it in the future, Vobora says,
denouncing protesters as terrorists and blaming Mayor
have already moved to.” The county says that the plan “is but a study out of DePaul University on curbside buses
Kitty Piercy for not sympathizing with his plight soon
still more favorable than the health plans offered by most showed having wireless on buses could increase ridership enough. These emails and dozens of others that shed
public and private sector employers” and says “this is very even more — passengers were willing to take a longer, light on what was going on behind the scenes over the
important to the county because it will save the county slower ride for the convenience of having internet access. holidays were uncovered by an EW public records
request. Look for “Topless Turvey Terrorism” this week
hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Locally, EmX is one of the reasons ridership has gone
at www.eugeneweekly.com
In a separate statement issued to county staff in regard up. Jan. 9 marked the one-year anniversary for the
to the possible strike and negotiations with the nurses, the Gateway EmX line, and the addition has contributed to the • Mining has stopped at Parvin Butte, according to a
county says, “Having the nurses on their own plan would overall rise in riders, according to Vobora. letter sent from Lost Creek Rock Products’ attorney to
increase our insurance and administrative costs by “It leveraged additional trips,” he said. “People were Lane County. We’re still a little unclear about how
sheriff’s deputies can go out and stop a party in the
approximately 2 percent or about $500,000 for the 60 going on the existing line into the Gateway area and then
woods and arrest people, but can’t stop illegal mining
members, plus the increased annual costs of approximately back.”
destroying the environment and devastating a
community. But kudos go to the folks on staff at the
county who have been bird-dogging Greg Demers and
hhaappppeenniinngg ppeeooppllee
Norman and Melvin McDougal and their mine, as well
BY PAUL NEEVEL
as to the elected officials — Commissioners Faye
Stewart and Jay Bozievich and Sen. Floyd Prozanski
JANET MCDONALD — who withdrew their support for LCRP’s nearly half
million dollar ODOT grant application for a venture that
Born and raised in Eugene, Janet McDonald is the
plans to send the illegally mined gravel and rock for
daughter of a logger, Sam Sears, who lost a leg in an
use on the Coos Bay Rail Link and at the Port of Coos
accident when she was in third grade. “He still wears Bay.
suspenders,” says McDonald, who visits him regularly
to help with household chores. “He’ll be 91 in • Concerned about issues like illegal mining at Parvin
Butte, folks like the McDougals and Demers, the
February.” A few years ago, when her mother was
Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that removed
suffering with Parkinson’s, McDonald was there to
all restrictions on corporate political contribution and
drive her to appointments and to help out around the “Who owns Lane County”? Head over to Occupy the
house. Half a year after the death of her mom in July Courts at 11 am Friday, Jan. 20. Occupy Eugene will
of 2008, her husband, wood products distributor rally at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza, 8th and
Oak, then march to the new U.S. Courthouse and join
John McDonald, suddenly developed a brain tumor
up with the Eugene chapter of We the People for a
and died. In need of an income and aware that her
noon rally and afternoon of talks (see Activist Alert). If
father and others his age didn’t look forward to the weather is bad, the events will move indoors to
leaving their comfortable homes for assisted living, First Christian Church at 11th and Oak.
McDonald joined with her daughter Michelle Daggett SLANT includes short opinion pieces, observations and rumor-chas-
and started a new business, Daily Home Services, ing notes compiled by the EW staff. Heard any good rumors lately?
Contact Ted Taylor at 484-0519, [email protected]
aimed at providing help with everyday tasks such as
housework and errands. “My dad was the first one;
that’s how it all started,” says McDonald, who currently
has four regular clients plus three on an on-call basis.
LIGHTEN UP
“There is such a need for it. People need companionship
as much as they need me sweeping the floor or
cleaning the bathroom. It brings me joy to put a smile Losing a lawsuit but prevailing in several investigations allows
on a senior’s face.” Learn more at www. County Commissioners Handy and Sorenson to point out that
not all the lies our adversaries spread about us are true.
dailyhomeservices.com
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The existing line was averaging 6,000 office. The protests were well attended, and
boardings a day, according to Vobora. ODF — which claims that it doesn’t have
When the EmX line opened, it went up to the resources to analyze the records —
a little over 9,000 a day, with 2,300 being finally seems to have conceded. “On last
attributed solely to the Gateway area. Thursday it was stated in an email that the
With the proposed West 11th EmX line, results will become available in February,”
Vobora said it would continue to solve the King says. However, she is not holding her
two big factors stopping non-riders: It is breath. “Once February rolls around, we’ll
faster than driving and avoids the hassle of start putting more pressure on ODF.”
transferring buses. — Caitlin McKimmy
“As you add that next leg,” he said, “it
certainly creates that cross-town system RULING AGAINST
that is very attractive to people and (will)
continue to grow the ridership.” POOP THAT
LTD is anticipating a continued rise
during the second half of the fiscal year, POLLUTES
which has more school months and tends
to be stronger than the first. Last year, four If you’ve ever driven by a cow pasture
out of the six months in the second half or a field recently fertilized with manure
recorded more than one million customer and wrinkled your nose at the foul odor,
boardings, according to Vobora. then you have an inkling of what it’s like
— Ted Shorack to live near a CAFO — a confined animal VIGIL SEEKS TO CLOSE GITMO
feeding operation. Hundreds or thousands
RESIDENTS of animals live in close quarters to A small group gathered in front of the Eugene Public Library at noon Saturday,
maximize production of milk, meat, eggs Jan. 14, to protest the National Defense Authorization Bill that “empowers
DEMAND TOXIC and other animal products. Hordes of indefinite detention of people deemed to be terrorists, even U.S. citizens, without
animals produce tons of poop, and that trial or the right to be tried,” according to local peace activist Peg Morton.
RECORDS manure doesn’t just smell bad, it pollutes Morton wore an orange jumpsuit and a black hood to dramatize the fact that
the water. But a recent ruling may make about 170 prisoners remain at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base detention camp in
Three months after requesting the state’s CAFOs pay a little more attention to their Cuba, and many have never had their day in court. More than 80 have been cleared
records of the pesticide sprays that have effect on the environment. for release but remain in custody. Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the
rained down in their backyards, the residents On Jan. 12 U.S. District Judge Lonny establishment of the Guantánamo prison, aka Gitmo. President Obama promised to
of Triangle Lake haven’t seen a thing. R. Suko ruled the Nelson Faria Dairy in close the infamous Bush-era prison complex when he was elected, but has met
For years, residents of this Lane County Eastern Washington must conduct resistance from the military, the courts and from hawks in Congress.
unincorporated community have dealt with groundwater monitoring for its CAFO Morton says the group, which holds weekly peace vigils at the library, is calling
negative health effects that they believe are operation. Eugene-based attorney Charlie for the immediate closing of the prison at Guantánamo, the release of those who
due to spraying of pesticides by Tebbutt calls the ruling “a great decision” have been cleared, fair trials for others, and that “the right of the military to
Weyerhaeuser and other private timber and says the judge’s order is “precedent- indefinitely detail suspects of terrorism be abolished,” and “traditional democratic
companies. “Since we’ve moved out here setting.” procedures, including the right to see a lawyer, and a fair trial, must be guaranteed.”
we’ve experienced more health problems Tebbutt, who was lead attorney on the — Ted Taylor
than we ever have before,” says Justice case representing CARE (Community
King, who lives with her family in Triangle Association for Restoration of the
Lake. Many residents blame their coughs, Environment), says the industrial dairy
heart palpitations and muscle spasms on the caused extensive soil and groundwater
logging companies’ use of pesticides. pollution through its poor manure
This summer, a study conducted by the management practices. The judge ordered
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) revealed the dairy to monitor its groundwater, tile
that the chemicals 2,4-D and atrazine are drains and soil to determine the full scope
present in the urine of Triangle Lake of its pollution.
residents. This study was conducted after Tebbutt criticized not only the dairy
the residents themselves had their urine and CAFOs, which can produce as much
tested in spring 2011 and found the waste as a city of more than 200,000
chemicals present. Both of these chemicals people, according to information from
are found in the pesticides that are almost CARE, but the state agencies that are
always used to follow clear cuts — in supposed to monitor them.
Triangle Lake, these noxious chemicals “If you looked at any other industrial
have often been dispensed via aerial CAFO,” Tebbutt says, “you would find the
spraying. same problems (as at Nelson Faria) of
All of King’s family turned up positive excessive manure application causing
for pesticides, and she has been working groundwater pollution and surface water
with her husband to gain access to the pollution.”
Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) He continues, “It’s just that the agencies
spray records. “We want to help OHA have failed to look — and the agencies
confirm that Weyerhaeuser did spray 2,4-D need to look — in order to protect human
and atrazine,” King says. “Then we can health and the environment. If states
prove that pesticide spraying was our agencies would look like CARE did, they
pathway to exposure and hopefully make would find every one of them is polluting
sure that things can be safer for us in the groundwater. They’ve have failed to do
future.” that.”
The spray records, which are required Lane County is home to several
by law to be public, have been difficult to agricultural operations considered to be
acquire. “ODF is responsible for requesting CAFOs by the state of Oregon, including
those records from logging companies,” Eugene Livestock Auction, which was E
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says local activist Day Owen. “They have issued a $4,320 civil penalty for E
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been dragging their feet for months and the discharging into waters of the state on July GI
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records still have not been released.” 29, 2010, according to an Oregon LA
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Last week King’s husband, Eron, Department of Agriculture press release.
organized three protests at ODF’s Veneta — Camilla Mortensen
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ECOSEXUALS and shoppers reap the benefits. and the role of the union. He will also assess the future of
Hardy’s workshop, “Ethical Sluthood: Foundations of the union and leadership development among the members.
AND ETHICAL SLUTS Nontraditional Lifestyles,” will address polyamory (non- After Ramirez’ talk, Ramirez and Morris will make
monogamous relationships) and questions such as: “How do summarizing comments and then open the discussion to
People worry about the chemicals in the foods they eat, you feel secure when your partner has a date (with someone the audience. Finally, Xavier Lara, the volunteer
but they don’t think about, or are sometimes uncomfortable cuter than you)? What is jealousy, and can it be overcome?” coordinator of the union, will invite the audience to help
talking about, the chemicals that go into their sex toys and Ariel Howland, who is the event organizer for As You the farmworkers finish construction of their leadership
lubricants, according to Kim Marks, the owner of the newly Like It, says she would like it emphasized that “Janet Hardy training center in Woodburn.
opened As You Like It — The Pleasure Shop. That’s why has great advice for monogamous couples as well. I think of The two-night event is free, but donations are welcome.
Marks wants to bring attention to the idea of being an her as a ‘relationship expert’ not a ‘polyamourous
ecosexual and being “green between the sheets” as well as relationship expert.’” ACTIVIST ALERT
provide access to products that are free of phthalates, A second workshop, “Making Intense Sensation Sexy,”
• Lane County Commissioner Rob Handy filed for re-election
petrochemicals, synthetic fragrances and other chemicals on Jan. 28, requires advance registration; you can check it
this week and has kicked off his campaign for the May 8 primary.
that could harm the body or the environment. out on Facebook at http://wkly.ws/163 He will be running against Pat Farr and Mike Clark so far. Handy’s
As You Like It just started its online sales page and will For questions about the Hardy talk, which will be at 7 to campaign website is www.robhandy.com and he can be reached at
[email protected]
be coming to Eugene Jan. 26 to host a workshop on “ethical 9 pm Jan. 26 on the UO campus (Lawrence 177), email
• “Empowering the 99%” is a gathering of local residents
sluthood” by author Janet W. Hardy. There are plans in the Howland at [email protected] or go to asyoulikeitpdx. concerned about foreclosures, Wall Street abuses, health care and
works for a Portland-based store, and future events in com where you can also check out the products. jobs, to be held from 6 to 8:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 19, at First United
Methodist Church, 13th and Olive in Eugene. Organizers include
Eugene that will offer products for sale face-to-face. — Camilla Mortensen
Mel Bankoff, Brad Averill, Bill Klupenger, Mark Hurwitt, Mike
Marks, a longtime environmental activist and former Barnes, Joshua Frankel and Mary Wagner.
Eugenean, says that — in addition to helping people with JUSTICE FOR • Jan. 20 marks the second anniversary of the Citizens
United Supreme Court decision equating corporate donations with
healthy, sex-positive products — one of the reasons she
free speech. Move to Amend, We the People-Eugene, Occupy
started As You Like It was the dearth of gender-inclusive, FARMWORKERS Eugene and others will hold a march from the 8th and Oak at 11 am
body-positive stores for sex products. “People don’t have to to a rally at Eugene’s U.S. Courthouse from noon to 5 pm Friday “to
celebrate our freedom and our democracy, and to urge the Eugene
wonder if they belong in my store; I have the products that A scholar-priest and a union president will share this
City Council to pass a resolution calling for an amendment to the
everybody needs,” Marks says. The store offers, in addition year’s St. Thomas More Lecture at the St. Thomas More United States Constitution which will end the dominance of
to the more traditional sex toys, products for the Catholic Church and Newman Center, 1850 Emerald St. in corporations over our political process,” says Fergus Mclean, of We
the People. Speakers will include Gordon Lafer, Roy Keens, Stan
transgendered, including breast forms and underwear to Eugene. The theme of the lectures is “Social Justice for
Taylor, John Davidson, Paul Cienfuegos and members of Friends of
reduce or increase the appearance of male genitalia. Farmworkers.” Parvin Butte, the Pitchfork Rebellion, GMO-Free Eugene and
Not everyone has the time to research the chemicals that John Morris, a Dominican priest and professor at St. Occupy Eugene. If the weather is really bad, the event will move to
the First Christian Church at 11th and Oak. See www.
go into their lubricants, dildos or vibrators, Marks says, or Mary’s College in California (Moraga), will offer an
WeThePeopleEugene.org
knows that sandalwood, a commonly used essential oil, is overview of Catholic teaching on social justice, highlighting • A new Eugene-based political group Get Money Out of
an endangered species. And some products are marketed as the church’s teaching about labor unions and immigration Campaigns (GMOC) is now meeting about once a month and
planning its next meeting in mid-February. On the agenda are a
“novelties,” she says, which essentially means, “it’s not at 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 26. At 7 pm the next night, Jan. 27,
review of excessive money collected for GOP primary caucuses, as
going to be used for something,” and so doesn’t undergo the Ramon Ramirez, co-founder and president of Pineros y well as by Obama; identifying major Oregon corporate donors to
sort of testing something that is going on or in your body Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), will describe both parties; and the benefits of public financing of campaigns. To
get on the group’s email list, contact George Beres at geosilberes@q.
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oal doesn’t just burn hot, it burns dirty — it’s In October 2011, the Oregon International Port of Coos BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN
pretty much dirt that burns — and like most Bay signed an exclusive negotiating agreement with an
hot things, it just might burn you. anonymous company interested in shipping coal from the Coal Complex
No active commercial coal mines remain port. The code name for the coal export proposal is “Project
in Oregon, and the state plans to phase out coal Mainstay,” and it calls for dredging the bay to deepen it, “The way to think about coal generally is not just a coal
from the Boardman coal-burning power plant building a new terminal and shipping out of the port 6 to 10 mine or a coal-fi red power plant or a transmission line or a
in the Columbia Gorge by 2020. But if you million metric tons of coal a year. Estimates put that at one or rail line or an export plan,” says Erik Schlenker-Goodrich
thought coal wasn’t a concern for Oregonians, think again. two trains a day with 15,000 tons of coal — about 110 to 130 director of Western Environmental Law Center’s Climate
Oregon is pretty dependent on coal — almost 40 percent cars carrying 120 tons of coal each — coming from mines in & Energy program. “The way to really think about this is
of the state’s electricity comes from coal-burning power Wyoming and Montana. Project Mainstay also means Eugene that you have this pretty massive coal complex that stretches
plants — and now Big Coal has plans to drive massive open might see trains more than one mile long coming through across the landscape.”
trainloads of the grimy fossil fuel right through Eugene. town with huge amounts of coal dust blowing from the cars. The whole coal complex starts with mining, but it
Coos Bay was once home to a coal mine and shipment of A Sightline Institute investigation into coal found that “500 stretches from the mine to rail lines to power plants to
coal was a major part of its economy — almost one hundred pounds to a ton of coal can escape from a single loaded car,” exports and so on. “It’s a massive supply chain and at every
years ago. But coal might be making a comeback in Coos according to calculations by the BNSF railroad. single stage there are impacts from coal,” he says.
Bay, and if it does, it will affect all of Lane County. Opponents point to multiple health issues including According to Schlenker-Goodrich, in addition to the dust
“I don’t think people were prepared for it,” says Grace coal dust, diesel fumes blowing along the rail route, toxic from the trains, those impacts include water and air quality
Pettygrove, a Eugene activist who is organizing a coalition pollution the coal burning in Asia will blow back to Oregon, issues at the mines and at the power plants from the arsenic,
to fi ght the coal trains. She adds, “I think the Coos Bay contributions to climate change and a host of other problems mercury and lead that are byproducts of mining and coal
proposal caught people off guard.” that transporting coal will bring to local communities. burning. “Coal combustion waste can be very toxic,” he
says. “The chemicals and compounds can be detrimental to
human health and water quality and aquatic species.”
When the Environmental Protection Agency released
its new emissions standards for mercury and other toxic
substances from coal-burning power plants last December,
the agency said the new standards “will prevent as many
as 11,000 premature deaths and 4,700 heart attacks a year.”
But with proposed Northwest exports sending coal
to Asia, “we are sort of kicking ourselves twice over,”
according to activist and fi lmmaker Jasmine Zimmer-
Stucky, who recently completed a fi lm project with Balance
Media documenting the coal export issue. “We’re shipping
it overseas only to have it blow back here.”
A fi fth of the mercury pollution in waterways in the
Pacifi c Northwest comes from abroad, Laura Stevens of the
Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign says. “Climate change
pollution, no matter where it’s burned, affects us.”
Zimmer-Stucky says the federal government recently
opened up more public land for coal mining in the West,
despite the lack of need for it in the U.S. where many plants
are turning away from the fossil fuel. She says that coal will
be exported via cheap rail and then shipped overseas for a
huge profi t margin for the coal companies.
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Schlenker-Goodrich says, “The way to think about the trucking. Because there’s a lot of competition, the companies
COAL’S way electricity in the U.S. works at this time is that it relies don’t want their competitors to know what they’re planning,
on huge centralized power plants typically in rural areas.” He Callery says.
says the plants create regional haze and smog. “I don’t think people realized it was going to come this

Even with Boardman moving away from coal (though far south,” says Eugene activist Pettygrove. “We thought
considering natural gas, another fossil fuel, as well as biofuel- that the port’s not deep enough, and the rail link was not up
BURNING ISSUES
burning options) Oregon is still coal-dependent. “Turn on a until this year. I really think that them fi xing the rail link was
light bulb in Eugene and it could be from power produced in done to prepare for this project.”
Montana,” Schlenker-Goodrich says. Coal opponents speculate that the companies looking
• If the Port of Coos Bay becomes a
According to the Oregon Department of Energy, 37 to open up terminals in Oregon are the same ones working
coal export terminal, ope n-topped coal percent of the electricity used in Oregon comes from coal, on the Washington proposals — Arch, Ambre and Peabody
some from Boardman and some from out-of-state power — and are hedging their bets in case those terminals don’t
trains will come through
plants such as Montana’s massive Colstrip plant. Recently pan out. Cloud Peak Energy, a top exporter of coal through
Eugene on their way
released EPA data on power plants says Colstrip was the Canada, has several subsidiaries in Oregon: Kennecott Coal
to the coast. eighth biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in Sales, Northern Coal Transportation, Prospect Land and
2010, sending out 17,120,416 million metric tons of carbon Development and Western Minerals.
500
dioxide equivalent. In other words, a light bulb turned on in Callery says that within the next 90 to 120 days, the
lbs
• Coal trains can shed Eugene might be creating greenhouse gases in Montana, as Port of Coos Bay will enter into a property-purchase
well as poisoning the wells and lungs of the communities option agreement with “Project Mainstay,” at which point
to a ton of coal dust per car along their
near the plant. the coal company’s name could become known. The port
route, and each train can have 120 cars.
Joe Harwood of the Eugene Water and Electric Board says and “Project Mainstay” are currently in the middle of six
EWEB gets some of its power from BPA (Bonneville Power months of “due diligence” on the project, he says, which
• Doctors say coal dust from the
Administration), and that “coal makes up makes up 6 percent includes everything from looking at port capacity to rail-line
trains can lead to chronic bronchitis, of EWEB’s power resource portfolio.” He adds, “EWEB and capacity. The port also owns the rail line, called the Coos
every other utility in the Northwest that receives BPA power Bay Rail Link (CBRL).
emphysema, pulmonary fi brosis
would thus have some coal in their resource mix.” Callery says a “dictating factor” in how much coal
and environmental contamination According to EWEB’s electric resource portfolio, would be exported from Coos Bay is the “volume of bulk
toxic
through the leaching of the utility gets 52 percent of its electricity from BPA, and commodity via the rail system” or, in other words, how
Harwood says 76 percent of EWEB’s power resources come many unit trains (that travel from start to fi nish as one unit)
heavy metals from hydropower. So Eugene isn’t using much coal, though the CBRL can handle. There is no legal limit on how long a
. it could have tons of coal coming through town. freight train can be in the U.S.; they are limited only by their
“There is a lot of pressure on these aging coal-fi red weight and what can pull them. Coal trains often have four
• Coal trains average a mile to a power plants and the economics are changing very rapidly,” diesel-spewing locomotives, two at each end of the train.
Schlenker-Goodrich says. In addition to many of the older Project Mainstay is currently doing a rail capacity study,
mile and half long and can hold up
power plants such as Boardman being shut down, new Callery says. He says the port didn’t choose the largest
traffi c at railroad crossings for 10 to 45 proposals for coal-burning plants are being shelved, and “you project, it chose what it considered the best one. Another
minutes. have the coal mines saying ‘Well we still want to mine this proposal, “Project Glory,” which the port commission didn’t
coal and sell it somewhere,’” he says. choose, called to export 26 million metric tons of coal.
That somewhere is Asia, and if the Coos Bay coal export Callery says coal isn’t the only commodity Project
• Rock from the Parvin Butte quarry, terminal goes through, Oregon will be the route that gets it Mainstay is considering. It would also transport iron ore
whose owners were mining without a there. and mineral products. “There would be a signifi cant number
of jobs” at the terminal, the rail carrier and in the maritime
permit, was slated to be used in the
Train in vain industry, Callery says. The port’s export of wood products,
ballast for the Coos Bay Rail Link that long one of its past mainstays, has dropped from fi ve million
would bring the coal to the coast. Boardman burns 3 to 5 million tons of coal per year, tons a year to million and half, and jobs dropped with that.
according to Stevens. “Compare that to how much coal they But employment numbers are unknown until Mainstay
want to export, and it’s scary,” she says. completes its due diligence, he says.
37%
The Coos Bay proposal calls for the exporting of 6 to
• of Oregon’s electricity 10 million tons a year. That’s bad enough for Eugene, but Black lungs
comes from coal burning and although Stevens points out that, while another coal export proposal
in Longview, Wash., was claiming it would export 5 million Maps indicate that the coal would be loaded onto trains
Oregon’s only coal-fi red plant will stop
tons a year, it was revealed that coal giant Ambre Energy, at the Powder River Basin mines in Montana and Wyoming,
burning coal in 2020, power companies
through its subsidiary Millennium Bulk Terminals, secretly taken through Montana into Washington, then through the
import coal-produced electricity. planned to export 20 to 60 million tons of coal a year from Columbia Gorge, down the rail line following the I-5 corridor
the proposed terminal, with at least 20 coal trains a day, and into Eugene, where the trains would switch rails onto the
moving slowly, holding up traffi c, spewing diesel and coal newly fi xed and reopened CBRL.
dust, according to Stevens. She says the heavy weight of The CBRL moves west from Eugene toward Florence,
coal trains means they use a high amount of diesel. then down the coast through Reedsport to Coos Bay, crossing
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There are fi ve other proposed Northwest coal terminals through forests, past towns and over lakes and rivers on its
in addition to Longview. Terminals have been proposed in way. Stevens of the Sierra Club says that for humans, the
Bellingham and Grays Harbor in Washington, and in Oregon danger from coal dust is in its mercury, arsenic and lead,
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there are proposals for terminals at ports in St. Helens and which could lead to lung cancer and asthma as well as health
Boardman and, of course, Coos Bay. issues stemming from the small particulate matter that gets
The Boardman proposal, like Longview, is through into the lungs.
Australian coal giant Ambre Energy. In addition to Ambre, Lisa Arkin of Beyond Toxics has been working for years
For more information on the anti- fellow coal mega-corps Arch Coal (which owns Millennium on health issues related to train traffi c along River Road and
with Ambre), Peabody Coal and Cloud Peak Energy are in the Trainsong area. Diesel exhaust, like coal dust, is bad
coal train coalition, go to the Coalition
working to export coal, or already do, mainly from the for your health. It releases carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides,
to Resist Coal Trains Through Eugene Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming. Currently nitrogen oxides and polyaromatic hydrocarbons and their
Facebook page at http://wkly.ws/164 that coal is exported through three terminals in Canada. derivatives, Arkin says.
Power River Basin coal is in demand for its low sulfur Whatcom Docs, a group of 170 doctors organized
For the Sightline Institute’s lengthy
content. Climate change activist Bill McKibben has called against the coal-export terminal in Bellingham, say that
investigation into coal in the Northwest the basin “one of earth’s great carbon bombs.” diesel particulate matter is associated with increased risk of
go to http://wkly.ws/165 Peabody reportedly has entered into a large coal export cancer, pulmonary infl ammation and increased heart attacks
contract with the proposed Gateway Pacifi c Terminal project in adults, and increased asthma and hospital emissions in
For a look at Balance Media’s video
north of Bellingham. Just who has entered into the coal children.
on coal exports go to http://wkly.ws/f contract with Coos Bay remains unknown, thanks to the The doctors say the coal dust from the trains can lead
nondisclosure agreement. Martin Callery, chief commercial to chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary fi brosis and
offi cer for the Port of Coos Bay, says such agreements are environmental contamination through the leaching of toxic
common in the transportation industry, from rail to marine to heavy metals.
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