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Environmental movements noted
for strengths and weaknesses
By Sarah Kitchen
Of the Kmerald
Panelists gave their answers
to th«s question “Environmental
Movement: Alive and Well in
Oregon?” Monday night at a
forum sponsored by the Sur
vival Center.
About 40 people attended the
forum, part of the Earth Week
celebrations at the University.
State Senator Bill Bradbury
said he believes the question
has several answers, depending
on which perspective is
examined.
One perspective is the issue
of toxic, hazardous or radioac
tive wastes, in which case Brad
bury said the environmental
movement is alive.
“The State of Oregon is a na
tional leader in enacting legisla
tion relating to spill response
and in relation to leaking
underground storage tanks.” he
said.
Oregon is in the process of
enacting a superfund hill to
clean up toxic waste sites. The
state also has enacted communi
ty and worker right-to-know
legislation about hazardous
materials. Bradbury said.
However, when exploring the
question in relation to Oregon’s
basic industries such as the
wood products industry, the en
vironmental movement is not
alive and well, he said.
The Hoard of Foresty just has
adopted new rules relating to
protection of repairing zones in
Oregon’s forests. “The rules
that were adopted, based on the
Department of Forestry’s own
study of the issue, showed that
at least BO percent of the current
operations in the forest meet
those rules today, so these an;
not really tough rules, but if you
listen to the timber industry you
would believe they were the
worst thing that had ever hap
pened.” Bradbury said.
“The movement needs an
energizing force; short of that,
at least it needs a lot of steady
volunteers and a lot of steady
organizing at the local and na
tional level.” said County Com
missioner Jerry Rust.
One problem is that Orego
nians want the question of the
environment “both ways." Rust
said.
“On Trojan, the reality is that
nobody wants the waste in their
back yard, but the fact is that the
good people of Oregon voted to
keep on producing it last fall,"
Rust said.
To decommission Trojan is
“the highest ground." Rust
said. After the plant is decom
missioned, then Oregon can
argue with the rest of the coun
try that it has taken tin; steps to
decommission and does not
want a nuclear power station in
the next state, he added.
While environmentalists and
environmental movements have
“come of age in the past 20
years, “ there are so many
splinter organizations with dif
ferent viewpoints that they
seem to be in competition with
each other, observed Cynthia
Wooten, from the Eugene City
Council.
One way of combatting this is
for the different groups to better
communicate with each other,
Wooten suggested. At the same
time, citizens should continue
to demand that their visabiiity
remain clear to decision
makers, she said.
Mary O'Brian, from the North
West Coalition of Alternatives
to pesticides, said environmen
tal movements should “be the
government, rather than submit
to the government.”
“We (environmentalists) all
play the same role in this socie
ty. and that is to challenge the
society to care for life and to
share tin; earth with other
organisms, to recognize our
connection w ith life, and to take
the responsibility for the conse
quences of too many people and
too much consumption.”
O'Brian said.
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