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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
British police reveal more details
of Parliament attacker
LONDON — Khalid Masood, who attacked Britain’s Par-
liament, killing four people and wounding some 50, was born
Adrian Russell Ajao, London’s top counterterror officer said
today.
Mark Rowley revealed the name in a briefing outside Scotland
Yard in which he also announced two more “significant” arrests
had been made.
That brings the total number of people in custody for the
Wednesday attack to nine.
“We remain keen to hear from anyone who knew Khalid
Masood well, understands who his associates were and can pro-
vide us with information about places he has recently visited,”
Rowley said.
“There might be people out there who did have concerns
about Masood but did not feel comfortable for whatever reason
in passing those concerns to us.”
The 52-year-old attacker was born in southeastern England and
had most recently been living in the central city of Birmingham.
Masood drove his car into crowds of people on Westmin-
ster Bridge on Wednesday afternoon, killing three and wounding
some 50, before stabbing a police officer to death at the Houses
of Parliament.
He was shot dead by police.
Trump approves Keystone XL,
calling it ‘great day’ for jobs
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared it a
“great day for American jobs” today as he formally green-lighted
the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion
project to finally be completed.
In a reversal of the Obama administration’s earlier decision,
the Trump administration issued a presidential permit enabling
Calgary-based TransCanada to build the pipeline.
Appearing alongside TransCanada’s CEO in the Oval Office,
Trump called it part of a “new era of American energy policy”
that he said would lower costs, reduce reliance on foreign oil and
create thousands of U.S. jobs.
“It’s going to be an incredible pipeline,” Trump said. “Great-
est technology known to man or woman and, frankly, we’re very
proud of it.”
He said TransCanada could now build Keystone “with effi-
ciency and with speed” and said the federal government was
working out final details “as we speak.”
The decision caps a years-long fight between environmen-
tal groups and energy industry advocates over the pipeline’s fate
that became a proxy battle over global warming. It marks one
of the biggest steps taken to date by the Trump administration
to prioritize economic development over environmental
concerns.
The State Department, responsible for reviewing the project
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
The Keystone Steele City pumping station, into which the
planned Keystone XL pipeline is to connect to, is seen in
Steele City, Neb., in 2015.
because it crosses an international border, determined that build-
ing it serves U.S. national interests.
That conclusion followed a review of environmental, eco-
nomic and diplomatic factors, the department said.
TransCanada, which first applied for a presidential permit in
2008, called the decision a “significant milestone.”
“We greatly appreciate President Trump’s administration for
reviewing and approving this important initiative,” said Tran-
sCanada CEO Russ Girling. “We look forward to working with
them as we continue to invest in and strengthen North America’s
energy infrastructure.”
But Greenpeace, one of the pipeline’s most vocal opponents,
said it sent a signal to the world that the U.S. is “moving back-
wards” on climate and energy, and pledged to keep fighting it
nonetheless.
The 1,700-mile pipeline, as envisioned, would carry oil from
tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Texas Gulf
Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan-
sas and Oklahoma. The pipeline would move roughly 800,000
barrels of oil per day, more than one-fifth of the oil Canada
exports to the U.S.
Judge allows Oregon
resident to be genderless
PORTLAND — An Oregon judge who last year ruled
that a transgender person can legally change their sex to
“non-binary” has given the OK for a Portland resident to be
genderless.
Multnomah County Judge Amy Holmes Hehn on March 10
granted a petition allowing Patrick Abbatiello to go from male to
“agender” and switch to the single name Patch.
People who are agender see themselves as neither a man nor a
woman and have no gender identity.
The 27-year-old Patch writes and designs video games and
had been using the name Patch since well before the decision to
legally change. An acquaintance applied it more than a decade
ago and it stuck.
“It’s not that I decided I was genderless — that’s just how it
is,” Patch said. “I never felt like I fell within any part of the gen-
der spectrum. None of the binary options, nothing in-between.
“I don’t consider myself non-binary because that’s an umbrella
term for anything that isn’t binary, which is gender identity.”
Patch first heard the term agender six or seven years ago:
“Prior to that I would just do my best to avoid the question of
gender, and the discussion of my gender.”
The judge in June 2016 allowed Jamie Shupe to legally
change to non-binary.
Experts believe it was the first ruling of its kind in the U.S.,
and it led others in Oregon and elsewhere to seek the same desig-
nation. The case made Patch think there was more of a possibil-
ity of legally going agender.
Patch, who doesn’t use pronouns, sought the name and gen-
der change on Jan. 23 and it was granted in a typical timeframe.
Maine’s cod fishermen
have worst year in history
ROCKPORT, Maine — The cod isn’t so sacred in Maine
anymore.
The fish-and-chips staple was once a critical piece of the
state’s fishing industry, but state records show 2016 was histori-
cally bad. Fishermen brought less than 170,000 pounds of the fish
to land in Maine last year. That was below the previous record
low of 250,000 pounds a year earlier.
Maine’s record year for cod was 1991, when fishermen
brought more than 21 million pounds (9.5 million kilograms) to
the docks.
Fishermen say they’re struggling with tight quotas. Scientists
say populations have plummeted.
The Sacred Cod is the nickname of a wood carving of the fish
that hangs in the Massachusetts Statehouse. That state remains
the center of the nation’s Atlantic cod fishery, but it is in jeopardy,
as well. Catch fell from nearly 100 million pounds in 1980 to less
than 3 million in 2015.
Sea-Tac TSA agent pleads guilty
to attempted voyeurism charge
SEATTLE — A security worker at Seattle-Tacoma Interna-
tional Airport accused of taking photos from underneath passen-
gers’ skirts has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge as part of a plea
deal.
KOMO-TV reports 29-year-old Nicholas Fernandez of Tuk-
wila pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted voyeurism.
A probable cause statement says authorities received
reports of Fernandez’s behavior last July and began monitoring
him.
Another TSA agent followed him as he left a security check-
point for a break. The agent reported seeing Fernandez stand
behind a woman at baggage claim and turn his phone on to record
under her skirt.
‘Man Cave’: It’s a 5,000-square-foot hangar on land rented from Port
Bales’ eviction is an opportu- would have to pay Bales a
nity to avoid the Port’s May $2,500 early termination fee.
Life Flight hangar and future bond measure. The Port is ask-
development.
ing voters to approve $1.96
Bond-averse
million in bonds
In a letter he sent
The Port’s bond measure
to fellow commis-
to create a second has been backed by most cit-
airport entrance to ies and hospitals in the region
sioners Thursday,
the south, accom- because of Life Flight’s impor-
Fulton said the per-
modate
helicop- tance in flying patients to
mitted use section
ter medevac ser- larger hospitals in Portland.
of the lease held
vice Life Flight’s But Fulton has been unsup-
by Philip Bales,
new hangar away portive of the larger bond mea-
a retired dentist,
from other airplane sure, calling for a cheaper
“is expressly and
traffic and near the alternative accommodating
plainly clear that
new entrance, and just Life Flight.
‘aviation-related
to ready nearby
facility and storage
He first tried to preemp-
Stephen
parcels for future tively create a Plan B fund just
of aircraft’ are the
Fulton
development.
only permitted uses,
for Life Flight’s pad in case the
“In the interest of saving bond measure failed. He later
‘and for no other purpose.’”
almost $2 million of taxpayer convinced the Port Commis-
money, I ask this commission sion to temporarily raise the
Man Cave
Bales has a 5,000-square- and Port staff to add to the next price of the bond to $2.6 mil-
foot hangar on land rented meeting’s agenda the discus- lion for potential wetland mit-
from the Port since 2000. He sion of how and when Bales’ igation costs, despite the Port
stores several planes and a site and lease could be termi- owning its own mitigation
boat in the hangar, as well as nated and made available for credits. The bond price was
operating the Man Cave, a a higher use by Life Flight later lowered back to $1.96
clubhouse complete with a bar pursuant to Section 5D of the million after the Port learned it
could not charge taxpayers for
and a small theater. Bales said lease,” Fulton said.
The higher-use section of mitigation credits the agency
he has broken no laws and is
providing a gathering place to Bales’ lease states the Port already possesses.
can give him 120 days writ-
The Airport Advisory
help promote the airport.
Fulton has requested an ten notice to vacate. The Port Committee, which includes
emergency meeting to autho-
rize a cease-and-desist letter
against the Man Cave, saying
he contacted the Port’s insurer
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and confirmed the agency has
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the Man Cave started with
his announcement of a bid for
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In the announcement, Fulton
said Campbell had condoned
the private club, which he later
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referred to as an “unlicensed
speakeasy.”
The allegations have sur-
prised and confused other Port
commissioners, most of whom
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Warrenton
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been filed about the Man Cave.
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Bales, advised against placing
Life Flight’s new hangar next
to the Bales’ hangar, which is
next to the U.S. Coast Guard’s
Air Station Astoria, because of
noise concerns. The commit-
tee recommended the southern
site included in the Port’s bond
measure because of its isola-
tion from other air traffic.
“I am concerned that Air-
port Advisory Commit-
tee members frequent Bales’
Man Cave, and therefore had
an incentive to not disclose
the Port’s contractual right to
buy out and end the Man Cave
under the Bales lease to situate
Life Flight there, since they
would lose their private social
club by doing so,” Fulton said.
Bales has said Fulton’s
campaign is one of envy that
a group of people has a place
to gather. He said the club is
not private, and that Fulton
himself has visited. While the
club has a decidedly conser-
vative political atmosphere,
Bales said he invites every-
body. Bales’ seventh-annual
International Man Cave Day
is Saturday.
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