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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016
Quest: ‘We gotta stop trashing the oceans’
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But his proposal never
came to fruition, and the
Cap’n Oscar sank multiple
times before the Port had the
boat taken out of the water
and stored in one of the han-
gars at North Tongue Point.
“It’s the best site in the
world to do this project,
period,” Allen said. “And
Clatsop County needs the
work. And that can be our
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Allen said any extra from
the Cap’n Oscar cleanup
fundraiser would go into
more public exposure, court-
ing investors to help with
ship-dismantling and a sep-
arate GoFundMe page he
created seeking $50,000
to survey the rocket debris
from the Falcon 9, a reus-
able rocket that crashed off
the California coast while
attempting to land on a barge
at sea. The rocket was built
by Space Exploration Tech-
nologies Corp., a company
founded by Tesla Motors
CEO Elon Musk developing
rocket technology to reduce
space travel costs.
“I like Elon Musk’s inno-
vation, but he has to clean up
his rockets, they have very
harmful materials,” Allen
said. “We gotta stop trashing
the oceans.”
Going regional
Allen’s efforts to clean
up the Cap’n Oscar come as
the state Marine Board has
applied to the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration’s Marine Debris Pro-
gram for money to clean up
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sel Western, which sank near
a public dock in Coos Bay.
“The hard lesson the
Cap’n Oscar taught us was
that it is much better to invest
in disposition of a derelict
vessel while there is oppor-
tunity to do so,” read a let-
ter of support for the state’s
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Oil floated near the site of the Cap´n Oscar after it sank
last year. Frank Allen, head of Blue Ocean Environmental,
fears that ocean debris and abandoned vessels are caus-
ing untold damage to the world’s oceans.
application written by Matt
McGrath, the Port’s opera-
tions manager. “Waiting for a
vessel to founder only serves
to exponentially increase
costs, environmental dam-
ages and public distrust.”
Meg Gardner, the environ-
mental programs coordinator
for the state Marine Board,
said the state’s application
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the Western, but would also
help form the Abandoned and
Derelict Commercial Ves-
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Oregon Coast.
Gardner said Oregon’s
abandoned and derelict boat
removal fund pales in com-
parison to Washington’s.
While the cost of remov-
ing a recreational boat can run
about $2,500, Gardner said,
the cost for a commercial boat
can reach $20,000. And while
both states have a fairly robust
program for removing derelict
recreational boats, “there’s
really no good resource to
remove vessels of (a large)
size when they’re rotting and
not in good condition any-
more,” she said.
Hundreds of vessels
After Oregon and Wash-
ington spent more than $22
million cleaning up the
sunken vessel Davy Crockett
near Vancouver, Washington,
in 2011, the states created the
Columbia River Derelict Ves-
sel Task Force, which identi-
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many of them more than 100
feet long and with unknown
levels of pollution.
A derelict vessel task
force in Washington esti-
mated more than 200 aban-
doned vessels in the state.
Allen estimates about 300 in
Oregon.
“To take care of all the
derelict vessels in Oregon
would be $30 million,” Allen
said. “They spent that on the
Davy Crockett.”
After taking care of aban-
doned vessels, Allen said
a cradle-to-grave process
should be created for each
active ship to account for the
eventual cost of disposal.
“If you do this right, and
put green recycling shipyards
around the world, you’ll cre-
ate millions of sustainable
jobs,” Allen said.
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gle serving, McNicoll said.
The Oregon Health
The new law, passed by Authority has been consid-
the Legislature in February, ering a 5-milligram limit on
opened the way for edible recreational serving sizes
and extracts sales this spring of marijuana-infused foods,
and also allowed retailers to about half of what’s legal in
continue to sell both medi- Washington state and Colo-
cal and recreational canna- rado — Oregon’s predeces-
sors in recreational legaliza-
bis out of one location.
The old recreational tion. The agency has said it
marijuana law would have would set higher limits for
required retailers to choose medical edibles.
Marijuana industry advo-
between a medical or rec-
reational registration at the cates like McNicoll say that
close of early sales at the low of a dose would make
end of the year. A majority the edible products less mar-
of dispensary owners had ketable because many rec-
indicated to marijuana regu- reational users need more
lators that they would defect potency to get high. A 5-mil-
to the recreational market at ligram serving is “akin to a
that time, fueling fears that placebo effect,” he said.
“We would really like a
medical patients might face
a shortage of medical can- compromise that still pro-
nabis products. Retailers tects Oregonians,” McNicoll
may sell marijuana to both said.
Rob Hendrickson, asso-
medical patients and recre-
ational users and are pro- ciate medical director of the
hibited from collecting a Oregon Poison Center, said 5
tax on medical marijuana milligrams is plenty for rec-
reational users.
sales.
“The 5 milligrams makes
The law limits the sale
of one serving of a low- the most sense,” Hendrick-
dose edible per day and one son said. “It’s equal to smok-
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extract” per day and directs 2-3 milligrams when you
the Oregon Health Authority smoke it.”
That dosage also pro-
to adopt rules on THC-con-
centration and serving tects children who might get
size limits on edibles and a hold of marijuana-infused
extracts. Tetrahydrocannab- foods, he said.
The Capital Bureau is a
inol, or THC, is the active
collaboration between EO
ingredient in marijuana.
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Marquis described the psy-
chologist’s report as a “giant
shrug” since there were no
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The report could not con-
clude whether Smith is unable
or unwilling to aid and assist,
he said.
In addition, the report sug-
gests postpartum post-trau-
matic stress disorder. Marquis
said he is unaware of any treat-
ment for that disorder.
New trial date
William Falls and Lynne
Morgan, Smith’s defense law-
yers, requested the trial be
delayed since they claim the
case cannot move forward
until the issue of her ability to
aid and assist is settled.
Matyas agreed and pushed
the trial to June 2017, nearly
three years after the alleged
crimes. Smith, 42, is accused
of drugging and drowning
her toddler and attempting to
kill her teenager in a Cannon
Beach resort on July 31, 2014.
Before the contested com-
petency hearing next month,
Smith will undergo a Min-
nesota Multiphasic Person-
ality Inventory test. The test
will not determine her ability
to aid and assist, but Marquis
requested the test because it is
meant to show if Smith is fak-
ing her mental disease.
Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Jessica Smith is led into the Clatsop County County Courthouse for a status hearing on
Wednesday.
Jessica Smith
sits during a
status hearing on
Wednesday.
State hospital stay
In her report, Howard sug-
gested Smith be sent to the
Oregon State Hospital for fur-
ther evaluation. The defense
supports the recommendation
and believes there is no need
for a hearing next month.
“Let’s err on the side of
caution,” Morgan said. “Let’s
send this woman to the hospital
to be observed, to be treated, to
be made competent.”
Marquis warned against an
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pital. The clock starts ticking,
he said, and after three years
the defense can move to dis-
miss the entire case.
Ultimately,
Howard’s
report says it is up to the “trier
of fact,” or the judge, to decide
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Judge Matyas previously
stated she has not observed
any unusual behavior from
Smith in court, but ordered
the independent evaluation
after considering a defense
expert’s claims that Smith has
severe mood changes, abstract
thinking and reasoning and
untreated mental health issues.
Security: ‘Things appear to be only getting worse’
experiencing
unacceptably
long security wait times during
peak periods.”
PreCheck lanes can screen
Rank
FAA Code
Airport Name
State
Total Passengers
PreCheck Passengers
% PreCheck
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300 passengers an hour, twice
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Sarasota-Bradenton
Florida
64,345
30,241
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that of standard lanes.
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Seattle-Tacoma International
Wash.
1,051,912
367,467
34.9%
“The real answer to the vol-
The TSA offered Congress
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PDX
Portland International
Oregon
515,258
151,299
29.4%
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Hartsfield Atlanta International
Georgia
1,565,920
442,475
28.3%
ume growth is to ideally get
a lofty goal of having 25 mil-
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program. Based on that and
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tor Peter Neffenger told The
Workarounds
“The TSA is more or less Associated Press.
the TSA’s front-line screen-
Without enough mem- behavior is monitored, they are weapons and explosives.
In response, TSA agents suggesting that we need to live
ers were cut from 47,147 bers, the TSA faced a prob- screened for explosives and
For now though, the agency
three years ago to 42,525 cur- lem: PreCheck lanes were then allowed to use the faster stopped pulling passengers with it,” says Isom, Ameri- is relocating 28 of its 142
out of line unless there was FDQ¶VFKLHIRSHUDWLQJRI¿FHU
rently. At the same time, the nearly deserted while other PreCheck lane.
canine teams to the 20 busiest
The Associated Press has an explosive-detecting canine
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airports so it can randomly put
ing through checkpoints has minals. Keeping empty Pre- VSHQW WKH ODVW \HDU ¿JKWLQJ team present. That change
Seattle waits
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grown from 643 million to Check lanes open was a waste under the Freedom of Infor- went into effect in September,
At Seattle-Tacoma Inter- TSA won’t say which airports
more than 700 million.
of staff. But without them, pas- mation Act for details on right after the Labor Day rush. national Airport waits have are losing the teams and could
The move forced about topped out at 90 minutes, with therefore have longer lines.
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into PreCheck through each 10 percent of all passengers the typical morning rush aver-
million people were Pre- be aggregated.
An additional 200 screen-
Check members. Applicants
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must pay $85 to $100 every workarounds to allow passen- the information for unspeci- year — to go back to normal says Wendy Reiter, the air- week, but that is offset by the
screening.
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port’s director of security and average 103 screeners the TSA
Longer lines soon fol- emergency preparedness. In loses weekly through attri-
trek to the airport for an inter- vetted to still get expedited
lowed. By February, just 26 WKH ¿UVW ZHHN RI 0DUFK tion. The agency is asking air-
view before being accepted. screening.
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While 250,000 to 300,000
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people are joining every miles a year or more with an Thanksgiving 2014 nearly 50 screened through PreCheck, PLVVHG LQWHUQDWLRQDO ÀLJKWV restrictions before checkpoints
month, it will take more than airline sometimes got the Pre- SHUFHQW RI ÀLHUV ZHUH JHWWLQJ according to Associated Press ²WKHW\SHRIÀLJKWWKDWRQO\ so it has fewer bags to screen.
calculations on TSA data departs once a day.
four years at that pace to Check designation on their expedited screening.
Airport and airline staff will
boarding pass at check-in.
At the world’s busiest air- also take over some nonsecuri-
Then last year, two back- obtained through a public
reach the target.
port, in Atlanta, general man- ty-related tasks, such as return-
“It hasn’t been a failure; it Others would randomly get to-back embarrassing inspec- records request.
During the week of spring ager Miguel Southwell told the ing empty bins to the start of
just isn’t moving as quickly it based on demographic tor general reports came out,
highlighting TSA security break in mid-March, 6,800 TSA last month that “things the checkpoint.
as it needs to move,” says information.
As a further step, the lapses. One disclosed that the American Airlines passengers appear to be only getting
Sharon Pinkerton, senior
There has been one bright
vice president for legislative TSA in 2013 created a pro- agency let a convicted domes- PLVVHG WKHLU ÀLJKWV EHFDXVH worse.”
side: the TSA says there is a
And in Minneapolis, exec- direct correlation between lon-
and regulatory policy at air- gram called Managed Inclu- tic terrorist use PreCheck. The of long checkpoint lines, fore-
line trade group Airlines for sion where it randomly pulls second revealed that in 67 out shadowing the headaches air- utive director Jeffrey Hamiel ger lines and a spike in Pre-
people out of the normal line of 70 tests across the nation, lines fear during the peak sum- told the TSA that “we are Check enrollments.
America.
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PERCENTAGE OF PRECHECK FLIERS