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CapitalPress.com
January 12, 2018
Inslee backs higher fuel
taxes to fight climate change
Republicans cool
to latest proposal,
which would
exempt farm fuel
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Port of Portland
The Port of Portland has created a new option for moving container freight by way of a railway partnership
with BNSF at Terminal 6. Shippers can now move their product on a rail shuttle to the Puget Sound ports.
Farm exporters uncertain about
new Portland transload facility
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
A new rail transload facility
at the Port of Portland is intend-
ed to ease farm exports, but ag-
ricultural shippers say they are
ambivalent about its chances of
success.
While a new option for get-
ting hay and other goods across
the Pacific Ocean is certainly
welcome, farm exporters say
they’re still concerned by rail
disruptions and container avail-
ability.
“Unless they’re going to
get us more containers, I don’t
think it’s going to help,” said
Johnny Gilmour, a farmer and
hay exporter with Gilmour Pa-
cific near Albany, Ore.
Ocean carriers abandoned
the port’s Terminal 6 container
facility in 2016 due to produc-
tivity slowdowns blamed on a
labor dispute between ICTSI,
the terminal operator, and the
longshoremen’s union.
The disruption was prob-
lematic because many Oregon
farm exporters shipped their
goods to Asian markets through
Portland, rather than the more
distant ports of Seattle and
Tacoma along Washington’s
Puget Sound.
Port of Portland severed its
contract with ICTSI last year
and entered into an agreement
with the International Long-
shore and Warehouse Union
aimed at preventing future con-
flicts and promoting the facility.
Now, the port has opened a
rail transload facility at Termi-
nal 6 that will allow export con-
tainers to be transferred from
trucks onto railcars headed for
the Puget Sound.
For Oregon hay exporters,
among the primary intended
beneficiaries, the facility will
allow truckers to deliver more
than one container per day.
Due to time constraints, truck-
ers could typically only deliver
a single container per day to
Puget Sound ports.
Over time, the Port of
Portland expects the transload
facility — operated in part-
nership with BNSF Railway
— will handle roughly 1,000
containers per week, with half
of them headed for export
markets.
“It will probably take up to
a month or two to ramp up to
a volume level like that,” said
Keith Leavitt, the port’s chief
commercial officer.
Incoming cargo will likely
consist of finished wood prod-
ucts, tires and footwear, while
outgoing goods will likely be
hay and raw wood products, he
said.
Leavitt said he’s unaware
of plans to ship value-added
farm products in refrigerated
containers, but the potential for
such shipments exists.
“I don’t see why that
wouldn’t be possible since we
have that utility at T6,” he said.
The transload facility will
be open five days a week, pro-
viding better truck access that
will improve the terminal’s
functionality, Leavitt said.
Late last year, the Swire
Group agreed to send its ships
to service the container facility,
but these calls will only occur
about once a month and focus
on truck exports to Australia.
By keeping Terminal 6 op-
erating throughout the work
week, the facility will hopeful-
ly become attractive to other
ocean carriers as well, Leavitt
said.
“Connecting our cargo
markets to the Puget Sound
ports makes a lot of sense,” he
said.
Agricultural exporters say
the new transload facility is
probably meant to compete
with Northwest Container Ser-
vices, a private transload fa-
cility also in Portland. Capital
Press was unable to reach the
firm’s Portland representative
for comment.
However, the dependabil-
ity of rail transportation to
the Puget Sound has recently
been questionable, said Jesse
Bounds, a hay exporter with
Bounds Hay Co. in Junction
City, Ore.
Rail shipments of hay con-
tainers have sometimes been
late to arrive at those ports,
resulting in delayed arrivals at
Asian markets and shipments
getting split between two
ships, which increases han-
dling costs, he said.
“We’ve had problems with
the rail and empty contain-
er availability,” Bounds said,
noting that the issues have
kept him trucking containers
straight to Puget Sound ports.
The key to making Ter-
minal 6’s transload facility
successful will be improving
rail service and increasing the
availability of empty contain-
ers, which are directly tied to
the flow of imports, said Shau-
na Watts, co-founder of Lind-
sey Forwarders, which handles
hay exports.
Another issue is the port’s
use of longshoremen, who have
earned a reputation for being
unreliable and expensive, she
said.
“Competition makes every-
thing work better, but it’s ironic
it’s not necessarily better for the
shippers,” Watts said.
OLYMPIA — Wash-
ington Gov. Jay Inslee pro-
posed a tax on fossil fuels
Tuesday that his adminis-
tration estimates would ini-
tially raise gasoline prices
by 18 cents a gallon, with
annual increases to follow.
The cost of electrici-
ty would go up by about
5 percent and natural gas
by roughly 10 percent, ac-
cording to Inslee advisers.
Administration officials say
they hope that motorists,
households and businesses
will respond to rising energy
prices by burning less fossil
fuel.
In his state of the state
address Tuesday, Inslee pro-
moted the carbon tax as a re-
sponse to climate change.
“I believe Washingtonians
will be together on this is-
sue,” he said. “On this, there
is no geographic divide in our
state. The Eastern Washing-
ton farmer whose irrigation
supply is threatened by low
snowpack faces the same cri-
sis as the Western Washing-
ton shellfish grower whose
baby oysters are threatened
by ocean acidification caused
by carbon pollution.”
Inslee, a Democrat, has
made climate change his
signature issue. He has pre-
viously proposed taxing
carbon emissions, but a tax
has not passed the Legisla-
ture. Democrats hold slight
majorities in the House and
Senate and will need to ei-
ther unanimously support a
tax or find Republican votes.
In the official Republican
response to Inslee’s address,
Kennewick Sen. Sharon
Brown said the tax would
burden families and stifle
businesses. “That would be a
move in the wrong direction,
resulting in opposition from
both parties,” she said.
Inslee
proposed
a
$20-per-ton tax on green-
house gases emitted by ener-
gy generators and transpor-
tation fuel suppliers. The tax
would increase, indefinitely,
by 3.5 percent plus inflation
each year. The administra-
Don Jenkins/Capital Press
Reed Schuler, senior policy adviser to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee,
explains a proposal to tax fossil fuels. The tax would raise gasoline
prices by 18 cents a gallon, with annual increases to follow,
according to the governor’s office. Inslee has made climate change
his signature issue.
Don Jenkins/Capital Press File
Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed
a fuel tax that would encour-
age Washingtonians to burn
less fossil fuel.
tion estimates the tax would
generate $1.5 billion in the
first two years.
Initially, under Inslee’s
proposal, the money would
replenish a reserve fund that
the governor wants to tap to
pay state Supreme Court-or-
dered pay raises for public
school employees.
Inslee proposed that in
the future half the money go
for programs to help the state
cut carbon emissions by 80
percent from 1990 levels by
2050.
Some 35 percent of taxes
would be set aside for proj-
ects such as thinning forests,
preventing floods and irrigat-
ing farmland. The Depart-
ment of Commerce would
handle the remaining 15
percent and come up with a
plan to help poor people and
workers hurt by the tax.
The legislation carves out
exemptions from the tax, in-
cluding one for fuel used by
farmers. Senior policy advis-
er Reed Schuler said the ad-
ministration wants to protect
the state’s agricultural indus-
try.
He said the administration
has not figured out the de-
tails on how to shield farmers
from higher energy costs.
The Inslee administration
does not make any claims that
the policy would affect the
climate, though it would align
Washington with carbon-re-
duction efforts throughout the
world.
Inslee urged lawmakers to
pass the tax before adjourning
in March.
“We have just 59 days
to do our part to save our
children from a certain end-
less cycle of crop-killing
droughts one year and rivers
spilling their banks the next.
To save salmon from dying
in ever-warming rivers and
our forests from being re-
duced to plumes of ash,” In-
slee said.
Republican leaders said
the carbon tax would hit low-
and middle-income residents.
“For most of us, this is about
a tax increase and controlling
people,” said Rep. David
Taylor, R-Moxee.
Senate Minority Leader
Mark Schoesler, a Ritzville
Republican, said people who
cut their energy consumption
couldn’t triumph against an
ever-escalating carbon tax.
“You cannot win,” he
said. “It keeps going up.”
LEGAL
LEGAL
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR THE COUNTY OF MARION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR THE COUNTY OF MARION
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS
AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT
SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2014-4TT,
Plaintiff,
vs.
THE ESTATE OF JOSE G. CUANAS, a deceaed person; CECILIA
CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS; MIGUEL CUANAS, as heir
to JOSE G. CUANAS; GUADALUPE CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G.
CUANAS; LETICIA CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS;
LEONEL CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS; JOSE GREGORIO
CUANAS, JR. , as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS; UNKNOWN HEIRS
OF JOSE G. CUANAS; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION II;
and ALL OTHER PERSONS PARTIES, OR OCCUPANTS
UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT,
TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY
DESCRIBED AS 2485 Walker Street NE, Salem Oregon, 97301,
Defendants.
CASE NO.: 17CV42452
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
To:
THE ESTATE OF JOSE G. CUANAS, a
deceased person; CECILIA CUANAS, as heir
to JOSE G. CUANAS; MIGUEL CUANAS, as
heir to JOSE G. CUANAS; GUADALUPE
CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS;
LETICIA CUANAS, as heir to JOSE G.
CUANAS; LEONEL CUANAS, as heir to JOSE
G. CUANAS; JOSE GREGORIO CUANAS, JR. ,
as heir to JOSE G. CUANAS; UNKNOWN
HEIRS OF JOSE G. CUANAS; and ALL OTHER
PERSONS PARTIES, OR OCCUPANTS
UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR
EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR
INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY
DESCRIBED AS 2485 Walker Street NE,
Salem Oregon, 97301
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, FKA, THE BANK OF
NEW YORK, , as trustee for the certificate holders of
CWALT, INC. Alternative Loan Trust 2007-4CB, Mortgage
Pass-through Certificates, Series 2007-4CB,
Plaintiff,
vs.
JOSE SOTELO, an individual; BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR BY
MERGER TO COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB FKA
COUNTRYWIDE BANK, N.A., a national association; THE
STATE OF OREGON; and ALL OTHER PERSONS PARTIES,
OR OCCUPANTS UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR
EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN
THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS 14768 UNION
SCHOOL RD NE, WOODBURN, OR 97071-8626,
Defendants.
CASE NO.: 17CV34449
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
To:
JOSE SOTELO, an individual
and
ALL OTHER PERSONS PARTIES, OR
OCCUPANTS UNKNOWN CLAIMING
ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT,
TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN
THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS
14768 UNION SCHOOL RD NE,
WOODBURN, OR 97071-8626
THE STATE OF OREGON TO THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT(S) ABOVE NAMED:
You are hereby directed and required to appear in, and defend against, this legal action within 30
days after the first date of publication of summons, which is the 12th day of January, 2018, and
defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT
IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2014-4TT, and serve a copy of your
answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff, ZIEVE BRODNAX & STEELE, LLP, at their office
below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according
to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This is a
Complaint for Judicial Foreclosure of Deed of Trust.
You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must file
with the court a legal paper called a “motion” or “answer.” The “motion” or “answer” must be
given to the court clerk or administrator within 30 days along with the required filing fee. It must
be in proper form and have proof of service on the plaintiff’s attorney or, if the plaintiff does not
have an attorney, proof of service on the plaintiff.
If you have any questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help in finding an
attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at
www.oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 in the Portland metropolitan area.
THE STATE OF OREGON TO THE DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT(S) ABOVE NAMED:
You are hereby directed and required to appear in, and defend against, this legal action within 30
days after the first date of publication of summons, which is the 5th day of January, 2018, and
defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, FKA, THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE
CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-4CB, MORTGAGE PASS-
THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4CB, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned
attorneys for plaintiff, ZIEVE BRODNAX & STEELE, LLP, at their office below stated; and in case of
your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the
complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This is a Complaint for Judicial
Foreclosure of Deed of Trust.
You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must
file with the court a legal paper called a “motion” or “answer.” The “motion” or “answer” must
be given to the court clerk or administrator within 30 days along with the required filing fee. It
must be in proper form and have proof of service on the plaintiff’s attorney or, if the plaintiff does
not have an attorney, proof of service on the plaintiff.
If you have any questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help in finding
an attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at
www.oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 in the Portland metropolitan area.
DATED: January 3, 2018
DATED: January 3, 2018
ZIEVE BRODNAX & STEELE, LLP
By: /s/ Amy F. Harrington
AMY F. HARRINGON, OR Bar 123363
Attorneys for Plaintiff
ZIEVE BRODNAX & STEELE, LLP
By: /s/ Amy F. Harrington
AMY F. HARRINGON, OR Bar 123363
Attorneys for Plaintiff
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