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• The Egan Warming Center with a
• Oregon WAND (Women’s Action for
half-dozen locations around the area is
New Directions) will be holding its monthly
preparing to open between this week and
program meeting from 6:45 to 8 pm
March 31 when temperatures drop below
Thursday, Nov. 17, at First United Methodist
30 degrees. More volunteers and donations
Church, 1376 Olive St., Eugene. Speaker
are needed. Volunteers are required to
will be Pat Hoover on the topic of Hanford
attend a training session. See http://
radiation releases and their impact on
eganwarmingcenter.com
those downwind. See www.wandoregon.
or
contact
org or call 683-1350.
Tracyplank@comcast.net
• Middle East expert Ellis Goldberg will
• Economist and political scientist
speak on “Armies, Democracy and a
Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley will
Suggestion for U.S. Policy in the Middle
deliver a lecture on the “Europe’s Never-
East” at 1 pm Thursday, Nov. 17, at the LCC
Ending Crisis” at 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov.
Center for Meeting and Learning. Later, at
17, at 100 Willamette Hall, 1371 E. 13th Ave.
5:30 pm, he will speak on “Egyptian Spring:
on campus. Free.
Desperately Seeking Revolution,” at the
• Lane County Democrats’ next
same location. Contact Lane Peace Center,
monthly meeting is at 6:30 pm Thursday,
463-5820, or email taylors@lanecc.edu
Nov. 17, at EWEB, 500 E. 4th Ave. in
• Marion-Polk Move To Amend is
planning
a
“We
Are
the
99%”
demonstration at 4 pm Thursday, Nov. 17,
Eugene. See www.dpo.org or call Matt
Davis at 484-5099.
• Bob Gould, M.D., national board
on the state Capitol steps in Salem. All are
member
invited. The action is part of a nationwide
Responsibility, will speak on “Nuclear
of
Physicians
for
Social
MoveOn
to
Weapons: The Ultimate Health Threat,” at
Republicans on the Super Committee
7 pm Friday, Nov. 18, at First United
calling for $500 billion in cuts to Medicare
Methodist Church, 1376 Olive St., Eugene.
and Medicaid. Contact richharisay@gmail.
See www.wandoregon.org or call CALC
com
485-1755.
campaign
in
opposition
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS
We heard from Bobby Jones, one of the Eugene occupiers, that the website we cited in our
cover story last week was incorrect. It should be www.occupyeugenemedia.org Jones also tells
us the camp is only between 6th and 7th between Washington and Jefferson. “We do not occupy
between 1st and 5th,” he says. Washington-Jefferson Park itself runs from 1st through 7th.
EARLY DEADLINE
EW offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for the long Thanksgiving
weekend, and EW will publish on Wednesday next week, a day earlier than
usual. The early deadline to reserve display ad space for our Nov. 23 issue
is 5 pm Thursday, Nov. 17. Questions? Call 484-0519.
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NEWS BRIEFS
pipeline, citing reports that there was a
conflict of interest and the department
allowed pipeline developer TransCanada
to choose the company that prepared an
assessment
of
the
project’s
environmental impact.
The assessment said the project
would have only minimal environmental
impact, despite the fact it would pass
through one the Great Plains’ critical
sources of water, the Ogallala Aquifer.
The letter says, “Given the significant
economic, environmental, and public
health implications of the proposed
pipeline, we believe that it is critical that
the State Department conduct thorough,
unbiased reviews of the project.”
An Oregon company, Evraz Oregon
Steel, would make pipes for the project.
On Nov. 10 Obama announced that
he was sending the project back to the
State Department for review in light of
the fact the pipeline was slated to go
through sensitive wetlands areas in
Nebraska. Michael O’Leary an
organizing consultant to the Natural
Resources Defense Council working on
the tar sands issue out of Portland says,
“The uproar of heretofore unorganized
regular community members has really
accomplished something enormous here
in terms of stopping a multinational oil
company and
federal progress on
something that everyone considered a
done deal.”
Meanwhile the megaloads carrying
tar sands equipment up the Columbia
River and across highways and byways
of the Northwest into Montana and then
to Canada where they would be used to
extract the tar sands oil are still
embroiled in controversy.
Imperial Oil has been deconstructing
some of its megaloads destined for the
massive Kearl Oil Sands in northeastern
Alberta due to the court battles that have
held the shipments at bay. Imperial Oil has
applied for permits to send 300 smaller,
though still massive, loads on interstate
highways instead of scenic U.S. 12.
The loads, some of which weigh up
to 600,000 pounds, have faced
opposition in Idaho from the group
Fighting Goliath, and in Montana where
Missoula County filed a case to keep
the massive loads off its two-lane
highways. Groups fighting the loads
have cited the effects on highways, on
local rural residents and on pristine
rivers as well as the more global
environmental issues with tar sands
produced oil. — Camilla Mortensen
CORVALLIS
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VANPOOLING
A vanpooling information meeting is
being planned for noon to 1 pm Friday,
Nov. 18, at the Student Sustainability
Center on the OSU Campus. RSVP to
Tracy Ellis at tracy.ellis@ltd.org (682-
6183) or Phil Warnock at pwarnock@
ocwcog.org (924-8474).
Valley VanPool is a collaboration of
Cascades West Rideshare, Cherriots
Rideshare, and LTD’s point2point
Solutions. Valley VanPool currently has
20 vanpools within the Willamette Valley
accommodating about 240 commuters.
Valley VanPool and local commuters
are looking for people who live in the
Eugene/Springfield area and work in
Corvallis, who are interested in forming
a vanpool. Both vanpool drivers and
riders are needed. The monthly fare
would run approximately $125 - $150,
depending on the number of riders in the
van, according to organizers.
By comparison, commuters driving
alone from Eugene/Springfield to
Corvallis in a car averaging 21 mpg are
paying about $450 a month for gas, tires,
and maintenance, not including
insurance, financing, depreciation and
parking fees.
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