Watts makes waves in coast management
By GABRIEL BOEHMER
Of the Emerald
Government, industry and public in
terest group representatives gathered
at the University law school Saturday
to discuss the fate of Oregon’s coastal
resources.
“The Oregon Coast in the 1980s”
conference took place just one day
after the U S. interior department
proposed an accelerated offshore oil
and gas leasing program. The Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act gives the
federal government the power to obtain
offshore oil and gas resources.
Delivering the keynote address, Rep.
Jim Weaver, D-Ore., said he opposed
offshore drilling along California’s
coast, calling Secretary of the Interior
James Watt a “fast-buck man” for
examining the possibility.
Watt had announced Friday that
federally owned gas and oil tracts in the
Santa Maria Basin, three miles off cen
tral California’s coast, will be leased in
May for drilling.
Black arts fete
features pianist
A lecture, workshop and mu
sical performance today by in
ternationally acclaimed pianist
Ingram Fox Black kicks off the
three-day Black Arts Festival.
Fox, who has composed
several black operas, spec
ializes in translating tradi
tional African rhythms into
piano music, says Donavan
Guy, vice president of the Black
Student Union (BSU).
The BSU — the sponsors —
says the festival will focus on the
struggles of blacks in the 1980s.
“There has been a lot of con
cern about the new administra
tion and its new focus — its new
social order,” Guy says. “We
see certain problems resurfac
ing, such as unemployment,
quality housing denial, racial
harassment and a resurgence
of the KKK.”
The festival is partly a re
sponse to those problems, Guy
says. Although most people are
aware of the problems, they are
still reluctant to participate, he
adds.
Fox will hold a workshop at
10:30 a.m. in Room 167 EMU. At
7:30 p.m., he will give a lecture
and performance in the EMU
Ballroom. Admission for the
lecture and performance is $2
for students, $3 for general
public.
A free panel discussion of
black issues is scheduled for
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the ball
room.
The festival ends Wednesday
with an African-derived dance
at 7:30 p.m. at South Eugene
High School. The dance will be
performed by the Dance
Dimensions Theater Company.
Admission is $3.50 for students,
$5 for general public and $6 for
reserved seats.
Tickets are available at the
EMU Main Desk, Meier and
Frank, Toad Hall and Back
stage.
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Weaver warns against oil development
Santa Maria is one of four California
basins included in OCS Sale 53. Also
included are areas off the northern
California coast.
The condition of northern
California’s coast is critical to the well
being of southern Oregon’s fishing
industry, Weaver said.
“There is no question those vital
areas would be threatened by offshore
oil drilling,” he said. "I’m not trying to
say we shouldn’t grow and use these
resources — but use and exploit them
wisely.”
Weaver also cautioned that the
production of oil should not be an end
in itself.
“The issue is short-term profits ver
sus long-term wise planning,” he said.
“We want to insure future generations
will be able to enjoy the great resources
of Oregon.”
However, funding for Oregon’s
coastal management program may be
in jeopardy, said Robert Knecht, acting
director of the coastal zone man
agement office.
The Reagan Administration wants to
cut coastal management almost entire
ly amd terminate the federal coastal
program by 1985, Knecht said. Admin
istrative grants for states with approved
coastal programs would end this year,
he said.
Of the 25 states with approved coast
al management programs, only five —
including California’s — would contin
ue to function at reduced levels.
Oregon’s program would all but disap
pear, Knecht said.
If coastal funding is reduced, not all
states will have a chance to re-budget
and cover the reductions, he said. Even
if they did, coastal programs would
have to compete for state funds with
other programs suffering from federal
cutbacks.
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Knecht warned.
“Coastal states are going to have to
take a hard look at the value a coastal
zone management program has to
them," he said.
Knecht also warned that the estuary
sanctuaries program may be threat
ened by federal cuts. The South
Slough Estuarine Sanctuary project in
Coos Bay — the first sanctuary to be
funded by the CZMA — may not be
completed with reduced federal sup
port
During a panel discussion of off
shore gas and mineral development,
Reagan Administration consultant
Hollis Dole responded to Knecht's as
sessment of the funding reductions.
“It was obvious to me that the world
hadn’t ended there for (federal) fund
ing," Dole said.
Dole predicted that southern
Oregon's Curry County would be the
future site of a major coal port and that
the Coos basin was the most likely spot
for offshore gas and oil drilling.
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
Reza Benham (Muslim), Alice’ Kinberg
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Session I: Tuesday, April 14, 7-8:30 p.m.
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