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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2017 Environmentalists urge Astoria to oppose oil terminal Oil-by-train project planned for Vancouver By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian Local and regional envi- ronmental groups asked the Astoria City Council Monday night to join with other Pacific Northwest cities to oppose an oil terminal they say threat- ens the health of the Columbia River estuary. The Tesoro Savage oil- by-rail terminal at Washing- ton’s Port of Vancouver, first announced in 2013, would be the largest oil-by-rail project in North America. Five mile- and-a-half long trains would carry a daily output of 360,000 barrels of crude oil. The oil would be put on oil tank- ers that would then cross the Columbia River Bar, accord- ing to nonprofit environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper. The project could “dramat- ically increase” the danger of an oil spill on the Columbia River from trains coming into the terminal and the vessels going downstream, said Dan Serres, the group’s conserva- tion director. The City Council had opposed a liquefied natu- ral gas and pipeline project in Warrenton in 2015, Serres said. He spoke Monday seek- ing a similar resolution, this time for the oil-by-rail project. “That statement (in 2015) resonated statewide,” Serres said. “… It marked this area as being a place where people like to help the river.” Vancouver, Spokane, Port- land and Hood River have already spoken out against the project. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will make the final deci- sion on whether to approve or deny the project, a decision he is expected to make sometime late this year or next year. Of chief concern to Serres and others opposed to the proj- ect are the trains themselves. “This is a new thing for the United States,” Serres said. “We haven’t moved oil by train in this volume ever Port of Vancouver Environmentalists want the Astoria City Council to op- pose an oil-by-train terminal at the Port of Vancouver. before. In 2012, this started to ramp up. In 2013 we started to see trains derail.” He pointed to an oil train that derailed and caught fire in Mosier, a town in the Columbia River Gorge, last year. That derailment and the small oil spill in the river that resulted was a “taste” of what could happen elsewhere, he said. Jan Mitchell, who serves on the Astoria Planning Com- mission, urged the council to join the other cities in oppos- ing the project. “Anything that happens to the river upstream, happens to us,” she said. City councilors asked questions and expressed con- cern over the safety issues, but Councilor Bruce Jones, Astoria hires private landscaper for parks City still debating how to fund parks By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian With plans to further dis- cuss how to fund parks into the future, the Astoria City Coun- cil approved a contract Mon- day night with Greensmith Landscaping to maintain key parks often used by tourists during the summer months. “This is a way right now that we’re able to keep the level of service that’s expected in our tourist-related facilities and continue on this summer,” City Manager Brett Estes said. The $99,216 bid Greensmith submitted will go to maintaining 13 parks, including the Doughboy Mon- ument on Marine Drive, the Garden of Surging Waves next to City Hall, and parks along the Astoria Riverwalk. The money comes from the city’s Promote Astoria fund. A resident pointed out that for nearly $100,000, the city could create a full-time posi- tion to help the Parks and Rec- reation Department maintain parks. City councilors and Estes replied that the money will pay for a crew of landscapers using the company’s own equipment and includes repeat visits to sites. The Parks Department currently has two employees tasked with mowing all of the city parks. The money for the work by Greensmith comes from the city’s Promote Asto- ria fund. This money has to go to tourist-related items, Estes said. It could not be used to pay for a new full-time employee at the Parks Department. Estes said there had been some discussion about whether to wait on assigning this work — Greensmith was the only company that responded with a bid — until the City Coun- cil’s next meeting when they will discuss future ways to fund the parks and bring on more staff. But, Estes and city staff concluded, the parks need maintenance now as summer crowds begin to show up and the Promote Astoria money had already been set aside for this work. In other business: • The City Council also held a second reading of the Advance Astoria ordinance. This plan outlines a five-year economic strategy, in part by looking at the clusters of businesses that already exist in Astoria and seeking ways to expand them as well as develop new businesses and industrial sites across the city. • The council approved cost of living adjustments to management and confiden- tial employees (a 2.5 percent adjustment); the public safety group employees (1.5 per- cent), fire employees (2.5 per- cent) and part time and sea- sonal groups, accounting for increases to Oregon’s mini- mum wage. The city is still in the midst of contract nego- tiations with public works and general/parks employee groups. • Councilors approved a liquor license application from Turtle Rock Cellars Inc., doing business as Swakane Winery at 240 10th Street. Suicide prevention bill heads to the House By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — The state House will consider a bill modeled after a law enacted by Washington state voters in 2016 to allow loved ones and law enforcement to obtain an emergency order to block a suicidal person from access to deadly weapons. The House Committee on Rules voted 5-2 to recommend passage of the bill. The Sen- ate approved the bill 17-11 in May. State Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, proposed the bill to create extreme risk protection orders as a way to prevent the kind of suicides he has expe- rienced as a father and a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran. Boquist’s 31-year-old son, a U.S. Navy veteran, commit- ted suicide Feb. 16, 2016, in the midst of the Legislature’s session. Boquist wrote a state- ment read by Senate President Peter Courtney the day after the suicide that said his son, Seth Sprague, had “never fully recovered from the tragedy of war.” In an emotional floor speech in May, Boquist said that three members of his com- THE DAILY ASTORIAN T UESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 mand killed themselves during the second Gulf War in Iraq. “Everyone wants to pro- mote this as a gun bill. It’s not,” Boquist said of the bill’s opponents. “We are only trying to tar- get those individuals who want to commit suicide and may murder a spouse, children or roommate in house. That is how we wrote it.” Connecticut has had a sim- ilar law since 1999. Several hundred protection orders have been issued since then, Boquist said. It’s “credited with saving lives” and has been upheld by the courts, he said. About 40,000 people take their lives nationwide each year, according to federal sta- tistics. Oregon has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, including among veter- ans, Boquist said. The National Rifle Asso- ciation and the Oregon Fire- arms Federation continued to oppose the legislation Monday during a hearing in the House Committee on Rules. Repre- sentatives from both groups said the bill denies gun own- ers due process and provides no mental health services to address the root cause of suicide. a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander, pointed out that refined petroleum products move up and down the river at least five days a week, if not on a daily basis. There are products the Pacific Northwest requires for its economy and industry to function, he said. If these products weren’t being moved on the river, they would be in trucks on the highways. “I think it’s a complex issue,” he said. “Petroleum products moving on the river, it’s easy to say this is real black and white, it’s bad. But then again compared to the alternatives, it moves safely on the river now.” The tankers that carry petroleum products or other hazardous chemicals must pass stringent regulations. When Jones was captain of the port, he said he was more worried about an oil spill from a grain ship than from a petro- leum tanker. They carry mas- sive amounts of fuel and are not maintained to the same standards required of the petroleum tankers. Managing the proposed transportation package will cost $115.2 million State could hire 60 new employees By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM – Three state agencies expect to hire 60 positions and spend $115.2 million to execute a proposed $5.3 billion statewide trans- portation funding bill. The spending plan is sep- arate from the greater trans- portation funding legislation, House Bill 2017. Both bills are headed to a vote on the floor of the state House later this week. The Joint Com- mittee on Ways and Means on Monday voted to recom- mend passage of the spend- ing plan, called House Bill 5045. The positions and agency spending limits cover levy- ing and collecting new taxes and fees, managing and reporting on transportation projects, overseeing an elec- tric vehicle rebate program and processing a surge of storm water permits. The spending bill includes: • $110.9 million and 50 positions for the state Depart- ment of Transportation for direct project costs and proj- ect-related studies in the first six months of the next two- year state budget cycle, • $3.9 million and eight positions for the state Department of Revenue to levy new taxes on payroll to pay for transit, car and bicy- cle excises taxes and hikes in the gas tax. • $389,122 and two posi- tions for the Department of Environmental Qual- ity to establish a rebate pro- gram for low- and moder- ate-income residents who purchase low-emission and electric vehicles and to han- dle a greater workload with an influx of storm water permitting. The fate of the transpor- tation package remains in question after 16 Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, Sat- urday suggesting the funding plan may be in peril if law- makers refuse to raise new revenue before the July 10 constitutionally-mandated end of the legislative session. The Democrats want to use the money for K-12 educa- tion and general government operations. W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber LISTINGS A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach “The grain business, they operate on very small mar- gins,” Jones said, “… so some of those grain ships sitting out there are real pieces of work.” The river is a highway, Jones said. “It’s a place of beauty and natural resources and fish and sea lions and it’s also a highway and it has been ever since before the first white people came here. It was a commercial highway.” He said he respects the work Columbia Riverkeeper does to protect the environ- mental health of the river. He wants to look closely at the project’s environmen- tal impact statement, current safety regulations related to oil tankers, and talk to the bar pilots who would be tasked with guiding these tankers back and forth across the dan- gerous system of sandbars at the Columbia River’s mouth before giving his approval to a resolution opposing the oil- by-rail terminal project. City staff will work with Serres to craft a resolution to bring before the City Council in August. N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 Evening listings TUESDAY J ULY 4 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Everyday Heroes Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune The Middle Fresh Off the Boat Black-ish Black-ish Amer. Housewife The Middle KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! The Middle Fresh Off the Boat Black-ish Black-ish Amer. 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