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.
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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.
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