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TDA plans Portland demonstration By DAVE OLMOS Of the Emerald Continuing its drive to shut down the Trojan nuclear plant, the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance (TDA) will sponsor a march and rally through the streets of down town Portland Saturday. In conjunction with the 1:30 p.m. start of the rally will be the end of a TDA-sponsored 72-hour vigil around the Portland General Electric (PGE) building. The march through city streets is a new tactic for nuciear plant protesters in the area. “We’re entering a new phase where people are taking to the streets like they did over Viet nam,” explains TDA spokesman Norman Solomon. The downtown march is scheduled to begin at noon near Portland’a south park blocks at SW Columbia Street and Park Avenue and is expected to con clude at the Waterfront Park a ...Of environmental concern >■ By KATHLEEN MONJE Of the Emerald “Northwest consumers will question the wisdom of planning which requires them to accom modate an 80-90 percent rate hike to pay for nuclear power,” Andrea Hyslop, acting director of the Oregon Environmental Council (OEC), said last week. The OEC response to Bon neville Power Administrator (BPA) Sterling Munro’s statement about rising consumer costs was not favorable. Munro has predicted that cost overruns on nuclear plants still under construction in Washington will add more than $220 million annually to Northwest customers' power rates. The plants will not be generating electricity for another three years. “One aspect of nuclear power development and expansion that has concerned environmentalists is that it is not cost-efficient,” Hys lop said. Retail power rates could be 30 percent lower in 1995 if we started meaningful conservation, she said, stressing OEC’s belief that conservation must be treated as a major source of energy in BPA power planning. “Effective conservation meas ures would eliminate the need for additional nuclear or coal-fired power plants,” Hyslop said. The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) has asked all land mana gers to stop using herbicides con taining the chemical Dioxin. “We think the rights of citizens and workers are being violated when herbicide contamination shows up in our water supplies, in our gardens and in our bodies,” said Fred Miller, NCAP coor dinator. Miller said foresters do not have the right ot contaminate other people’s property, whether they do or do not believe the herbicides are harmful. The group has asked land managers to post a five-day notice of spraying operations. In addi tion, long-term health studies of people applying herbidides have been requested of the Forest Ser vice Chief and the director of the Bureau of Land Mangement. “The critical effects of dioxin, even in minute quantities, are not generally disputed in the sci entific community...we think there is enough evidence to show the actual and potential harm that can result from the use of these pro ducts,” Miller said. The Board of County Com missioners is looking for three county residents to serve as at large members of the newly created Wildlife and Natural Re sources Advisory Committee. The 15-member committee will have 12 representatives from the Forest Service, the state Fish and Wildlife Commission, the Bureau of Land Management, environ mental and sports groups, com mercial fisheries and private timber companies. The committee will form a Lane County wildlife and resource de velopment policy. Application forms should be completed by March 23; they may be obtained from the Lane County Community Relations Depart ment, in the Public Serivce Build ing at 125 East 8th St. in Eugene. The $421 million increase for more intensive forest manage ment, requested by Congressman Jim Weaver, D-Ore., and ap proved by the House Agriculture Committee, has drawn negative comment from a local environ mentalist. Randy O'Toole, of the Univer sity Oregon Student Public In terest Research Group, says the budget addition will result in “dumping a lot of herbicides on Oregon’s forests.” He contends ‘ intensive man agement” of timber resources means more herbicide use. "It’s economically infeasible as well as environmentally unsound,” O'Toole said. Work with boys in Technical and Academic High Schools, in summer camps, boys' clubs, and in world-wide missions. To learn more about this Catholic Society for youth mail this coupon to: cross from the PGE building. The TDA plans to have a number of guest speakers at the rally who will support the perma nent shutdown of the Trojan plant, according to Solomon. Lon Topaz, a former director of the Oregon Department of Energy, will be one of the speak ers at the rally. Topaz was the first director of that department, ap pointed by Gov. Bob Straub. Gretchen Kafoury, a state legis lator from Portland, will also speak. Lloyd Marbet, an intervenor in state and federal hearings on the proposed Pebble Springs nuclear plant in Arlington, Ore. will be another speaker, Soloman says. Susan Garrett, an intervenor in the federal hearings concerning the expansion of nuclear waste storage at the Trojan plant will speak at the rally. Pat Fredrick, a TDA member who is also involved in the Native American Activist Movement, will round out the list of speakers. Soloman says the TDA and its supporters hope to initially stop the refueling of the Trojan plant, which would then force the clos ure of hhe plant. Licenses for the march and rally have been obtained from the City of Portland and TDA expects no arrests on that day, according to Soloman. The Eugene office of the TDA located at 348 W. 8th St. will be providing carpools to the Portland march and rally. For further infor mation contact the office at 687-2557. Summer at Oregon It’s yours for the asking Summer Sessions Bulletins will be available late Wednesday. Pick up your free copy at the Summer Session Office, Room 64 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. All students pay resident tuition during the summer. Classes begin on June 20, so make plans now to enjoy an Oregon summer.
