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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 Astoria: Documentary covers key events in city’s history Continued from Page 1A Soon after, Astoria became known as the salmon-can- ning capital of the world. The ¿UVW FDQQHU\ RQ WKH &ROXP- bia River opened in 1866 on the Washington side. Astoria RSHQHGLWV¿UVWLQ “Astoria is off the beaten path. It’s been sitting quietly over there for 200 years and all of this amazing stuff went on over there,” Cain said. “For me, the story became an introduction to Astoria for the rest of the state.” Courtesy of Columbia River Maritime Museum ‘There is a lot of story around Astoria.’ Cannery workers prepping tuna for packing. — Eric Cain Oregon Public Broadcasting producer Peter Welch Collection — Clatsop County Historical Society The second half of the docu- mentary focuses on the modern history of Astoria, which Cain believes has rarely been cap- WXUHGRQ¿OP The documentary covers the KLVWRULF¿UHRQ'HF,W also touches on the Bumble Bee Seafoods saga of how it became the largest salmon-canning company in the world in 1960, then closed shop and moved to California in 1980. Sam Johnson, the executive director of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, said Cain ap- proached him early in the project and had the idea that Astoria’s modern history had been over- looked by the general public. “He was very interested IURPWKHVRQZLWKWKH¿UH DQG¿VKLQJLQGXVWU\DQGWKHXSV and downs with the salmon,” Johnson said. Throughout the documenta- ry, Astoria’s changing logging DQG¿VKLQJLQGXVWULHVDUHKLJK- lighted. 7KH¿OPQRWHV$VWRULDLVQRZ experiencing a rising tourism in- dustry with attractions such as the Flavel House Museum and Astoria Column. “There is a lot of story around Astoria,” Cain said. “Astoria” features interviews with: • Peter Stark, author of the book “Astoria;” • Sam Johnson, Columbia River Maritime Museum exec- utive director; • McAndrew Burns, execu- tive director, and Liisa Penner, archivist for the Clatsop County Historical Society; • John Goodenberger, histor- ic building consultant; • Richard Basch, vice chair- man of the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes; • Irene Martin, author and salmon industry historian; • David Lum, retired Astoria auto dealer and son of Chinese immigrants. View looking over Alderbrook and the Hammond Mill. Date of photo is between 1920 and 1922 before the Hammond Lumber Mill fire in 1922. in the photo you can see the mill, Alderbrook, and Hindu Alley, the white apartment type building center right. Peschl Family Album donated by Jack Hebbeler — Clatsop County Historical Society A group of employees sitting and standing on piles of finished lumber at Hammond Mill. Ten of the employees appear to by Hindu or Sikh. Courtesy of Clatsop County Historical Society Ghadar Party plaque. Men with fish on a table. Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society Gearhart: Council needs more information before approving annexation hazard area, contain wetlands and provide habitat for the sil- Road, Del Rey Beach subdi- YHUVSRWWHGEXWWHUÀ\ vision, the end of Pine Ridge The Gearhart Planning Drive and U.S. Highway Commission had denied Fra- 101. The property is in Clat- ser’s request, saying that the sop County and is not with- property should be in the ur- in Gearhart’s urban growth ban growth boundary before boundary. being annexed to the city. To Although at one time the do that, Clatsop County and family had proposed develop- the city of Gearhart would ing 120 houses on the prop- have to apply to the state De- erty, Fraser told the council partment of Land Conserva- that he would want the cur- tion and Development to ex- rent zoning, which calls for tend the city’s urban growth a minimum 2-acre lot size, boundary. to remain, allowing for few- The city councilors debat- er than 20 homes. Portions of ed the need for adding more the property are in the 100- land into the city at this time \HDUÀRRGSODLQLQDWVXQDPL and expressed concern about Continued from Page 1A how many homes would be allowed and how they would be situated on the parcels. Councilor Sue Lorain won- dered whether the city could extend its services to the area. However, Councilor John Duncan noted that the state re- quires cities to have a 20-year supply of buildable lots avail- able. Although the city has about 240 buildable lots now — enough to meet the 20-year demand — Duncan said hav- ing the Fraser property might be worth considering. “Where do we go to an- next (in the future)?” Duncan asked. “The only place to go is to the north. Do we need it this minute? No. But do we need it under our control, or will Warrenton come in? Ten years from now, we will need that land to keep the state minimum.” The City Council, howev- er, said it needed more infor- mation before it could approve the annexation. It the end, the council voted 3-2 to deny the request with a recommenda- tion that Fraser explore seek- ing an urban growth boundary extension. Lorain, Councilor Dan Jesse and Mayor Dianne Widdop approved the motion. Councilor Kerry Smith voted against it, and Duncan ab- stained, saying he could not come to a decision. The council also approved an ordinance that limits the height of fences to 6 feet and delineates how the height is to be measured. Fences over 6 feet high will require a vari- ance. Councilor Dan Jesse ab- stained from the vote because, as a contractor, his work re- quires him to build fences. The council also approved an ordinance regulating the location of medical and rec- reational marijuana dispensa- ries. They cannot be located within 1,000 feet of another marijuana dispensary or with- in 1,000 feet of a school; day care center; or “student train- ing facilities, such as dance studios, athletic, music and similar training facilities”; or public recreation facilities at- tended primarily by minors. An ordinance limiting the number of recreational vehi- cles parked at one time at a residence to two for not more than seven days per month was tabled. Some councilors REMHFWHG WR WKH GH¿QLWLRQ RI an RV contained in the ordi- nance, which included dune buggies and recreational ERDWV 7KH GH¿QLWLRQ ZLOO EH removed from the ordinance DQG SODFHG ZLWK RWKHU GH¿- nitions contained in the city code. LNG: Nation’s rush to join natural gas push began with Japan’s nuclear disaster Continued from Page 1A and CEO Don Althoff. “I don’t believe it will. I believe our buy- ers take a long-term view of the marketplace. There’s a four-year construction cycle and a 20-year contract. Buyers are thinking about 25 years out, really, when they think about pricing.” But several industry experts are more pessimistic. The United States’ rush to join the natural gas party be- gan with a tragedy overseas: Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nu- clear disaster in March 2011. “Afterward, Japan said, ‘OK, we’re done,’” said Art Berman, a petroleum industry expert with more than 30 years of experience in the energy in- dustry. Japan shuttered its nucle- ar power plants, but soon re- alized it had zero oil and gas resources. The Japanese decid- HGWRVWDUWLPSRUWLQJOLTXH¿HG natural gas — and the price shot through the roof (overseas LNG prices are indexed to crude oil prices; their decision to tap in to LNG came at a time when crude prices were excep- tionally high). Demand for LNG grew — and the U.S. wanted in. Com- panies saw an opportunity to turn LNG import terminals into export facilities, and applica- WLRQVEHJDQÀRRGLQJLQWREXLOG JUHHQ¿HOGH[SRUWWHUPLQDOV Jordan Cove was one of these, forgoing its plan to build an LNG import terminal on Coos Bay’s North Spit in February 2012. Instead, the company immediately started looking into building an ex- port terminal. Today, Jordan Cove is pro- jected to export 0.9 billion cubic feet of LNG per day to east Asian markets. Althoff said one of Jor- dan Cove’s advantages is its rel- atively short shipping distance to the Tokyo harbor: nine days. “Net LNG exports, primari- ly to Asia, increase by 3.5 (tril- lion cubic feet per day) from WRWKHQUHPDLQÀDW through 2040,” according to the EIA. “Prospects for future LNG exports are uncertain, de- pending on many factors that DUHGLI¿FXOWWRDQWLFLSDWH´ Other studies, including a detailed effort at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas, sug- gest the nation’s four major shale gas plays will peak in 2020, and then drop off. The EIA and BEG provide different outlooks on the future of LNG — different, not con- ÀLFWLQJWKH\QRWHGLQUHVSRQVHV to “The Fracking Fallacy” in Nature last year. “We both consider future scenarios and perform sensitiv- ity analyses to show how varia- tions in input parameters affect production outlooks,” the BEG wrote in response to the Nature article. “The EIA result is, in fact, one possible outcome of our model.” Berman worries that BEG’s conservative estimates will come true. “Does the U.S. have enough natural gas to even consider export?” Berman said. “That’s the most important consider- ation.”