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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Bill seeks reversal of Oregon GMO preemption
Local agencies
could regulate
biotech crops
2469, which would carve out
an exemption allowing local
GMO regulations.
“Oregon farmers can’t wait
another four years to protect
themselves from this harm,”
said Amy van Saun, a legal
fellow at the Center for Food
Safety nonprofi t group.
Van Saun said measures are
needed to prevent cross-pol-
lination of conventional and
organic crops with biotech
genes, which threatens mar-
kets for those farmers. The fed-
eral government doesn’t regu-
late GMO crops once they’ve
been approved for commercial
use.
“We’re probably going to
see even more lax regulation,”
van Saun said.
Oregon’s seed preemption
law doesn’t apply to Jackson
County, which was already set
to vote on a GMO ban ballot
initiative when the state legis-
lation passed.
Voters approved the Jack-
son County ordinance, creat-
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Biotech crit-
ics are calling on Oregon law-
makers to overturn a prohibi-
tion against local government
restrictions on genetically
engineered crops because
statewide regulations haven’t
been enacted.
In 2013, the Legislature
passed a law that preempted
cities and counties from set-
ting their own rules over seeds,
which blocked most local
ordinances banning geneti-
cally modifi ed organisms, or
GMOs.
Groups that opposed the
preemption law say state
inaction since then has justi-
fi ed the passage of House Bill
wide GMO regulations but
they hope the bill will pro-
vide local control over bio-
tech crops until the state
Department of Agriculture
or lawmakers decide to take
action, said Ivan Maluski,
policy director of the Friends
of Family Farmers nonprofi t.
“We have no expectation
the state of Oregon will move
forward on these types of pol-
icies,” he said.
Oregonians for Food and
Shelter, an agribusiness group
that supported the preemp-
tion law , is disappointed that
biotech critics are still trying
EO Media Group to regulate what crops farm-
Critics of GMO crops are proposing legislation that would ers are allowed to plant, said
turn back Oregon’s preemption on local government reg- Scott Dahlman, its policy
ulation of genetically engineered crops.
director.
Cities and counties aren’t
equipped to regulate crop pro-
ing a “GMO-free seed sanctu- ported the GMO ban.
ary” where seed crops can be
“We’re in this unique eco- duction, which is the province
of the Department of Agricul-
produced without the threat nomic opportunity,” she said.
ture, he said.
of cross-pollination from bio-
Local control
The state hasn’t deter-
tech varieties, said Elise Hig-
Supporters of HB 2469 mined specifi c rules are neces-
ley, director of the Our Family
Farms Coalition, which sup- haven’t given up on state- sary for GMOs, which the fed-
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In the fi re’s early phases,
there was risk of it spreading,
Benedict said, until fi refi ghters
used a water hose and extin-
guished the blaze from the out-
side in.
“We have two ladders here,
Seaside and ours,” Benedict
said. “We used ours from up
top to squirt down — most of
it was on the second story of
the house.”
Firefi ghters did not enter
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wall from the other side, you
can see that it’s bowing out,”
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An Astoria man is dead
after a single vehicle crash in
Alderbrook early Sunday .
Brandon Allen Getten, 29,
was traveling east near 43rd
Street and Lief Eri kson Drive
when his 2016 Cadillac CTS
left the roadway, struck trees
and went over an embank-
ment, the Astoria Police
Department said. Police and
fi re responded at 2:33 a.m. and
found the driver had died from
blunt force trauma .
Body of missing woman found
The Daily Astorian
The body of a woman who
went missing in Elsie in Jan-
uary has been found in the
Nehalem River.
Deputies recovered the
body of Brianna Renne Judge,
23, near Riverbend Road in
rural Clatsop County on Sat-
urday evening, the Clat-
sop County Sheriff’s Offi ce
announced. The county med-
ical examiner did not detect
any signs of foul play, and an
autopsy has been scheduled to
determine the cause of death.
Judge was last seen leav-
ing a residence in Elsie on the
night of Jan. 10. Residents
located a pair of boots believed
to belong to Judge, but several
other searches did not produce
additional clues.
BIRTH
Feb. 2, 2017
WOODS, Natasha, and
HANSEN, Alec, of Westport,
twin boys, Aiden Joshua and
Carter James Hansen, born at
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versity Hospital in Portland.
Grandparents are Mike Han-
sen of Longview, Washington,
Angela Tobiness of Clatskanie
and Donald and Kathryne
Woods of Westport.
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the arrangements..
THIERRY, Margaret A.,
78, of Astoria, died in Astoria.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
WILCOXEN,
Marjorie
Ruth, 96, of Sandy, formerly of
Warrenton, died in Gresham.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Cannon Beach Rural Fire
Department Board, 6 p.m.,
Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188
Sunset Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach City Council,
5:30 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Warrenton City Commission,
X-Rays
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
Lewis & Clark Fire Depart-
ment Board, 7 p.m., main fi re
station, 34571 Highway 101
Business.
Warrenton-Hammond School
Board, 6 p.m., Warrenton High
School library, 1700 S. Main Ave.
Clatsop Community College
Board, 6:30 p.m., Columbia Hall
Room 219, 1651 Lexington Ave.,
Astoria.
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CANNON BEACH —
Fire swept through a two-story
North Larch Street residence
Sunday afternoon in a blaze
that could be seen for miles.
There were no reported
injuries .
“One individual was in the
house at the time,” Cannon
Beach Fire Chief Matt Bene-
dict said . “She got out and then
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hart, Seaside and a bunch of
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Other crops
Dahlman noted that the
seed preemption law passed in
2013 not only protects GMOs
from a patchwork of local reg-
ulations, but also precludes
such rules for other crops that
may become unpopular in the
future.
Many of the same lawmak-
ers who voted in favor of the
preemption law four years ago
still hold offi ce, so Dahlman
said he’s hopeful they won’t
support HB 2469.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Woman escapes Cannon Beach house fi re
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TONIGHT
eral government deregulates
after determining they pose no
greater risk than conventional
crops, Dahlman said.
Lawmakers never commit-
ted to statewide regulations
when passing the pre emption
law , he said. “There were no
promises I was aware of at the
time.”
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