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nessee senator.
The questions tackled specific
environmental issues, including re
moving dams on Oregon water
ways, using hemp as an alternative
resource and oil drilling in Alaska
and throughout the country. But
many Nader supporters laughed
and made loud quacking and chirp
ing sounds to show their opposi
tion to some of the answers McGin
ty gave about Gore’s platform.
When one man fired a barrage of
questions and criticism, McGinty
fought back, defending the vice
( ( For the most part, peo
ple were respectful of each
other’s differences. People
had the opportunity to ask
some pretty sticky ques
tions and she was able to
provide them with
answers.
Holly Harris
co-director
Land, Air, Water
Environmental Society
president and saying Gore can’t
suddenly change every policy the
Clinton administration has tackled.
“Gore can’t do it alone, Ralph
Nader can’t do it alone and you
can’t do it alone,” she said, pointing
at the man. “We’ve got a Republi
can Congress, and you can fight and
you can fight and you don’t always
win.”
While McGinty always ex
plained Gore’s personal stance on
issues, she often pointed out the
time it takes for major policy to be
enacted and the opposition that can
hold back legislation.
But the real excitement came as
McGinty and her staff left the EMU.
A man walked up to McGinty and
offered her a dead salmon, which
visibly startled the Gore adviser.
She simply quipped that she likes
her fish with lemon and butter be
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fore making a quick exit from the
EMU.
“We didn’t talk about philoso
phy. It was a purely culinary dis
cussion,” McGinty said before
boarding a plane to Seattle late
Thursday afternoon.
For the most part, the town hall
meeting remained civil, and some
differences were even solved after
the meeting.
The most heated point came
when senior Jonathan Sands said
that claims that a Republican ad
ministration would make abortion
illegal were simply a scare tactic by
Democrats to keep people from vot
ing for Nader.
Law Professor Garret Epps stood
up and yelled at Sands, saying he
“has no clue” and called his claims
“political happy talk.”
But right after the meeting, the
two met and calmly discussed the
issue in an exchange of ideas.
“For the most part, people were
respectful of each other’s differ
ences,” said Holly Harris, co-direc
tor of Land, Air, Water Environ
mental Law Society, the campus
organization that sponsored
McGinty’s visit. “People had the
opportunity to ask some pretty
sticky questions and she was able
to provide them with answers.”
LAW, a national organization, is
the oldest law society in the coun
try.
Harris added that invitations are
being sent to the environmental ad
visers for Nader and Republican
candidate George W. Bush to come
and speak on campus as well.
Bush and Gore are in a virtual tie
in Oregon and, for that reason,
McGinty told the crowd that this
will be the most important vote
they ever cast — even though, for
some students, it will be the first
vote they have ever cast.
“It won’t be as useful ever again
in your entire life,” she said. “This
is the most important vote of your
life.”
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biggest challenges that we face
aren’t the ones that are in our
own backyard. They are issues
that will require global cooper
ation. And I do think that we
in the north, in the developed
world, need to take a much
more respectful tone and atti
tude toward the viewpoints
and insights of those in the de
veloping world. And frankly, I
wanted to get off my high
horse and go live with Indians
and see the issues in the world
from the perspective of one of
the most important developing
countries in the world.
Q: Are we going to see the
automobile industry move
away from fossil fuels?
A:- The vice president
launthed in 1993 something
called the Partnership for a
New Generation of Vehicles.
And in that partnership he-se
cured the commitment of the
big three automobile manufac
turers to producing, by the year
2003, commercially competi
tive equal performance vehi
cles that achieve 300% of the
fuel economy of current vehi
cles.
That would be roughly
about 80 miles to the gallon.
Those current versions of those
vehicles are hybrid gas and
electric technologies, but I
think we are getting very close,
maybe even within five years,
to fuel-celled vehicles, which
of course will use zero gaso
line.
While over their lifetime,
they save consumers money,
but up front they have a higher
price tag and so the vice presi
dent has been pushing for
three years now as the realities
of these commercially viable
vehicles are upon us for the tax
incentives for consumers to af
ford these cutting-edge tech
nology cars, and in fact in June
he announced his intention to
expand his earlier proposals
and to offer $6000 tax credits
to consumers who are willing
to purchase or who desire to
purchase these most efficient
vehicles.
Q. What is Gore’s position
on removing dams on the Co
{ ( There are cons as well
as pros in terms of
salmon recovery with
dam removal. For exam
ple, the engineers tell us
there’s lots of sediment
built up behind those
dams.
Kathleen McGinty
Environmental adviser for Al
Goreyy
lumbia and Snake Rivers?
At In the first instance, he
believes we need to invest
heavily in improving habitat,
in reforming hatchery prac
tices, in reforming harvest
practices ... salmon harvest
practices. But he believes we
are going to have to rigorously
monitor, maybe over a period
of five years or so, our biologi
cal progress in pursuing that
course.
If it looks like the species
with those vigorous actions are
turning the comer and are
heading toward a strong recov
ery of the stocks, then he
would say let’s stay on that
course.
This issue is sometimes re
ferred to as the four Hs: habitat,
hatcheries, harvest and hydro
dams; all four of which play a
role in the salmon declines we
have seen.
But if those measures don’t
work, and if the biologists tell
us that we are not seeing a re
covery of the species, then we
■ will need to examine the op
tion of dam removal as well.
And one thing I want to be
clear about here is that I know
there are a lot of people who
think, look, the only option
here is dam removal and we
ought to get about it right now.
The idea that dam removal
is the silver bullet is a simplis
tic presentation of the issue be
cause all of the things that
need to be done here are im
portant and challenging.
Second of all, I think it’s also
important to keep in mind that
there are cons as well as pros
in terms of salmon recovery
with dam removal. For exam
ple, the engineers tell us
there’s loft of sediment built
up behind these dams.
The sediment in and of itself
can be bad for salmon recov
ery, and we don’t know if some
of that sediment even further
might have some toxins or
chemicals attached to it, which
we also would have to be very
careful if we’re going to un
leash that throughout the
whole watershed.
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