Catherine siegner
of environmental concern
The Trojan Decommission
ing Alliance's Portland chapter
held a press conference Friday
and said it opposes any attempt
by Portland General Electric Co.
to speed up hearings on interim
operation of the Trojan nuclear
plant.
The Atomic Safety and Licens
ing Board of the U S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission held
hearings in Salem and Portland
recently on whether PGE should
be allowed to start up the plant
while modifications are being
made to the control building walls
to bring them up to federal earth
quake resistance standards.
The board ran out of time during
the hearings and will not be able to
reconvene until Dec. 11. The plant
has been shut down since last
April.
PGE lawyers want to continue
the hearing process by mail, but
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all participants, including TDA,
must agrfee. TDA s Nina Bell
summed up the organization's
sentiments, “Certainly the closure
of Trojan is costing PGE extra
money. It is a hidden cost of nu
clear power that PGE should have
considered before building Tro
jan.”
Eugene's major public utility
is having a board meeting tonight
at 7:30 at 500 E, 4th Ave. Eugene
Water & Electric Board commis
sioners will hear a report on the
preschool Mini-Volt Program and
receive input from the audience.
Indians in Southern Oregon
and Northern California are fight
ing a recent federal decision ban
ning salmon fishing on the
Klamath River..
Several members of the Yurok
and Hoopa Tribes have been ar
rested for shooting at local
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sheriff's deputies and blocking
major highways as part of their
continuing protest.
The Indians are asking for the
right to fish the river, although In
terior Secretary Cecil Andrus im
posed the ban in August.
Despite treeplanters’ objec
tions, seedlings will continue to
be treated with the animal repel
lant Thiram under new state Dept,
of Agriculture guiedelines.
The Hoedads, a Eugene-based
tree planting cooperative, pre
sented testimony at a Salem hear
ing Oct. 3 urging the department
to issue warnings about possible
adverse effects from Thiram ex
posure.
The new guidelines call for
treeplanters to wear skin creams,
gloves, protective clothing, and to
avoid alcohol before and after
handling Thiram-treated seed
lings because the chemical
causes nausea when combined
with alcohol (much like Anabuse).
An attorney familiar with en
vironmental litigation will speak
about the practical aspects of
such suits at 12:30 p.m. Wednes
day in Room 129 of the Law
School.
Joseph Brecher has rep
resented the Native American
Rights Funds in nine separate
suits to control adverse environ
mental effects from the Four Cor
ners power plant complex in
Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
A new state center to investi
gate misuse of pesticide and her
bicide applications in Oregon has
been proposed
A task force appointed by Gov.
Straub suggests the center be op
erated beginning next year with
$71,590 and five positions.
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A Eugene church has paid more
than $150 in penalty fees for mail
ing a political endorsement for
Republican Fourth Congressional
District challenger Jerry Laus
mann in late September, a U. S.
Postal official says.
Ken Haley, manager of mail
classification for the Eugene post
office, says a letter mailed Sept.
22 by the Eugene Faith Center
church that endorsed Lausmann
was not mailed at the proper sec
ond class rate.
The letter was mailed to more
than 1,000 church members in
Eugene at the second class,
non-profit rate of 2.7 cents a letter.
The letter, which also contained
an envelope for contributions to
the Lausmann campaign, should
have been mailed at a higher rate
of 8.4 cents a letter.
Faith Center pastor Roy Hicks,
Jr., who sent the letter, endorsed
Lausmann as the “Lord's candi
date" in the Nov. 7 election. Offi
cials of Hicks’ church in Los
Angeles said last month the en
dorsement was against an “un
written" church rule.
Earlier this month the church
paid $157 to the post office to
make up the balance of the mail
ing rate, Haley says.
Lausmann was defeated last
week by incumbent Congressman
Jim Weaver, D-Ore., for the sec
ond time in two years.
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