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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1978)
vvj 'Vi K.' [-V. VJ Trak’s patented Fish scale Nowax base. • v / The fishscales dig into the snow for firm grip yet permit easy forward glide. Without wax. And now the Fishscales are deeper under your feet, where you kick-shallower toward tip and tail, where you glide. It works - so you won't have to. Fishscale Nowax Shop Evenings — We’re open Friday A Saturday HI 9.-00, h. > At the corner of 11th A Mill; Phone 343-0013 Nuclear and coal plants on horizon for Northwest Stories by KATHLEEN MONJE Of the Emerald The eigth Northwest Energy Policy Project (NEPP) report, re leased Thursday, predicts that at the lowest likely growth-rate con dition the region will need five new nuclear and two new coal-fired power plants by the year 2000. The report also concludes that more expensive energy supplies will cause Northwest energy prices to rise substantially, even though future demand is expected to grow at a significantly slower pace than in the past. The NEPP studies are spon sored by a commission composed of governors John Evans of Idaho, Bob Straub of Oregon and Dixy Lee Ray of Washington, with co chairer Patrick Vaughn as the presidential appointee. The studies are designed to give the governors and state Legislatures information, which they can use in planning for future energy needs. The report, called "Energy Supply and Environmental Im pacts,” projects energy demand under three different growth-rate scenarios; low, moderate and high energy-growth conditions. The report considers the mod erate scenario to be the most likely. It would require nine new coal-fired and 13 new nuclear power plants by the end of the century, NEPP says. Under high growth-rate condi tions, the report predicts, “as many as 28 new coal-fired and 21 new nuclear power plants might be needed.” The report notes that successful conservation policies would reduce the need for generating capacity under any scenario. Because cheaper hydroelectric power resources have already been fully developed, the more expensive thermal and nuclear sources will cause price increases for residential consumers of from one to two percent per year more than the current rate of inflation. Natural gas, coal and petroleum prices will also rise as fast orfaster than inflation, because of more imports of those products. Alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind generation are not mentioned in the “supply” section of the report, but the “im pact” section states that “en vironmental impacts from uncon ventional energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal are less than the impacts from con ventional energy sources, al though all energy sources would produce some adverse environ mental impacts." Weaver deplores log exports Jim Weaver, 4th District Demo cratic Congressman, has plans to stop the sale of National Forest timber to companies that export logs. Weaver, chairer of the House forests subcommittee, says his proposed bill states, “If you have so many of your own logs you can afford to export them, nothing in this bill will prohibit you from doing so. But, stay out of the competition Bili Graham & Double Tee in Association with the EMU Cultural Forum Presents ©1977 ROUND REEL'S / UNCLE SAM CHARACTER BY CARY ClirTIERREX SUN. JANUARV 22 750 RIA. McArthur court RESERVE* SEATS > tT.SO MAIN NjsDGENC OREODN T7«(OS . FDR f*C*lE lHfOHMV0U ,CML €86 -M367. for National Forest timber. This timber should go to mills which depend on public timber for their source of supply ." The brunt of the timber supply problem in the region fails on the smaller independent mills, Weaver says, citing the closures of six such mills in the 4th District during the last two years. “A log exported is a log lost to our domestic supply,” according to Weaver. “I am proposing a bill to protect buyers of federal timber from the effects of exports.” His bill will not affect export practices that do not have a dras tic effect on domestic needs, such as the overseas sale of Port Or ford Cedar, Weaver says. The bill will give the Secretary of Agricul ture, who administers the Forest Service, authority to decide, through hearings, what exports are affected under the measure. The proposed bill is aimed primarily at Japanese log imports; Weaver points out the value of the yen increased 20 percent over the purchasing power of the U.S. dol lar in 1977. “This means that the Japanese products we import are costing us more and the logs we are exporting are costing the Japanese less every day,” Weaver says. “Already the Japanese demand has pushed the price of timber beyond what many of our mills can afford and some have dosed,' Weaver adds. “If prices are pushed up $50 or more per thousand board feet, it could eas ily squeeze profit margins into the red for even more mills." In addition to helping the reg ional timber industry, Weaver says the bill should induce more investment in the forest products industry to meet the Japanese demand for processed lumber, and provide a lift to the area's economy by increasing employ ment. ■REGON hbbbiebI MTjOMLCHJ»M| HEAR YE ! HEAR YE ! Read all about the 1939 Wandering Webfoots becoming National Basketball Champs ! With basketball mania at a fevered pitch, does it seem so strange that we are now peddling these posters? Just think, for every Classified ad you place at 300 EMU, you get one of these full-sized posters FREE. Send one to a friend, wallpaper your commode. They’re suitable for wrapping fish and housebreaking puppies, and they’ll al»o go well under that old chair you’ve decided to paint.
