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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1977)
... Of environmental concern By KATHLEEN MONJE Of the Emerald Trojan Decommissioning Alliance members said Friday Portland General Electric officials appear to have given different in formation to TDA representa tives and the news media. At a meeting last Wednesday to discuss plans for next Friday’s oc cupation of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, PGE officials said the Visitors' Information Center would be closed during the occu pation because of the Thanksgiv ing holiday. Steve Loy, PGE public relations manager, told the Emerald that the Visitors’ Center would be closed for security reasons. Simon also said Loy s state MADE RESERVATIONS WITH THE AIRLINES? JOG BY & PICK UP YOUR TICKETS A Free Service for Your Convenience RIGHT ON CAMPUS EUGENE TRAVEL 831 E. 13 th 687-2823 A ment to the Emerald that “The TDA leadership...doesn’t neces sarily have complete control over the demonstrators," was inaccu rate. "We don't have a leadership," Simon emphasized. “All decisions are made by the entire group — we never said anything at the meeting about not having control over demonstrators." Everyone participating in the occupation must go through the TDA non-violent training, Simon said. “We wouldn’t let anyone spon taneously join the occupation,” he said. The Environmental Protec tion Agency (EPA) wants more nursing mothers from the Siuslaw National Forest area to volunteer for a study that will analyze human milk for traces of dioxin. Dioxin is a poison used in her bicides intensively sprayed in the national forest to control under growth. Milk samples from Oregon will be collected next week. Mothers interested in volunteer ing for the study should contact Dr. Michael Watson, Pesticides SCIENCE FICTIONS & FACTIONS 1978 The EMU Cultural Forum and The Survival Center present with thanks to the Assembly and Lecture Comittee AN EVENING WITH FRANK HERBERT AUTHOR OF THE DUNE TRILOGY mm PLUS AN AFTERNOON WORKSHOP/PANEL FOR SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS AND READERS, WITH FRANK HERBERT, KATE WILHELM & DAMON KNIGHT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1977 1 1:00 - 1:00 p.m. Book signing Reception, UO Bookstore 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Workshop/Panel, 167 EMU 7:30 p.m. Frank Herbert Lecture, EMU Ballroom “You & The New Technology” EVENING LECTURE • $ 1.00 General Admission Tickets on Sale at: The EMU Main Desk • Koobdooga Bookstore • Gandalf’s Den - the Atrium Bldg. Branch, EPA, 1200 Sixth Ave., Seattle, Wash. 98101. He may also be reached at 206-442-1090. Oregon can lay claim to the Northwest’s only hazardous waste disposal site. Deadly pes ticides, acids, mercury and other dangerous debris from industry and agriculture are stored in trenches in the High Plateau in Eastern Oregon. Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc. opened the site in May 1976. It accepts everything at the burial site except radioactive waste materials. "The fundamental fact about hazardous wastes,” according to a U S. Environmental Protection Agency publication, "is that they are a menace to human health and the environment. They can poison, bum, maim, blind and kill people and other living or ganisms." The Oregon Department of En vironmental Quality monitors the site and must approve each ship ment of waste buried there. The Emerald plans an in-depth story on the site and its operation. Tom Henstead, bike path planner for the city of Portland, will be at the University Tuesday to examine the Springfield "D" Street bike path. Henstead, who was invited by the University OS PIRG board, will ride the "D'' Street path at 2 p.m. and will speak in the EMU at 4 p.m., room to be posted. r A PSYCHIC Advises on business, love & personal direction Jamil P O Box 10154 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Phone anytime: 3422210 4842441 V y Environmentalists say new changes in federal clean water laws will slow the pace of cleaning up the nation s waterways. The revisions, approved Nov. 17 by a House-Senate conference committee, extend by a year the deadlines industries must meet to install improved water pollution equipment. The revisions also ac cept less efficient equipment. Larry Silverman of the Clean Water Action project said the revi sions mark a step backward in pol lution control. A spokesperson for another en vironmental group called the changes "a disappointment But industry spokespersons said the committee s agreement represented 'a reasonable com promise between environmental and economic concerns. The changes are included in a bill authonzing the expenditure of $24.5 billion through 1982, mostly on federal grants for local sewage treatment plants. The committee also eased re quirements designed to preserve the nation's environmentally deli cate wetlands. The conference committee lifted a requirement that the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation meet stnngent requirements before be ginning to dredge or fill in wet lands. The conferees replaced that re quirement with one requesting preparation of environmental im pact statements for each project before congressional approval is given. TH € Place Lunch & Munch on Soup & Salaa or Sandwiches! ON THANKSGIVING! “MAYA” In the Lounge 4 PM - 2 AM Fine Holiday Dining 4 -10 PM ALSO: MONDAY “2 for 1” TUESDAY “Ladies Night” Vj Price! WEDNESDAY 25c Beer 9 - 11 Fine Continental Dinin Steak Seafood
