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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2018
Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling
Plan draws
opposition from
governors
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Trump administration moved
Thursday to vastly expand off-
shore drilling from the Atlan-
tic to the Arctic oceans with a
plan that would open up federal
waters off California for the first
time in more than three decades.
The new five-year drill-
ing plan also could open new
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Pelicans float on the water with an offshore oil platform in
the background off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2010.
areas of oil and gas explora-
tion in areas off the East Coast
from Florida to Maine, where
drilling has been blocked for
Democrats, university
women hold meeting in
favor of Measure 101
including six off California.
“This is a draft program,”
Zinke told reporters during a
conference call. “Nothing is
final yet, and our department
is continuing to engage the
American people to get to our
final product.”
Industry groups praised the
announcement, which would
be the most expansive offshore
drilling proposal in decades.
The proposal follows Trump’s
executive order in April encour-
aging more drilling rights
in federal waters, part of the
administration’s strategy to help
the U.S. achieve “energy domi-
nance” in the global market.
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The Clatsop Community
College Board on Thursday
voted unanimously to add
volunteer and real estate agent
Andrea Mazzarella to their
ranks. She was chosen over
collegiate and K-12 food ser-
vice specialist Tamra Taylor.
Mazzarella is widely
known through more than
20 years in the local service
sector, including 15 as a bar-
tender. She recently became
an agent for John L. Scott
Real Estate in Seaside. After
Patrick Wingard announced
his resignation from the col-
lege board to take a position
in Eugene, Mazzarella said
a friend reached out to her
about serving.
“I’ve had a career shift, so
now I actually have more time
to volunteer, do things in the
Mazzarella grew
community,” she said
up in Astoria, par-
during an interview
ticipated in the col-
with the college board
lege’s Upward Bound
Thursday.
college
readiness
Mazzarella
has
program as a high
volunteered for local
schooler, studied psy-
groups including the
chology and oil paint-
Astoria Senior Cen-
ing on campus and
ter, The Healing Cir-
Andrea
cle serving childhood
posed for sculpting
Mazzarella
victims of sexual
classes. She recently
abuse, Clatsop Teen Well- attended a college board meet-
ness Coalition, the Astoria ing to voice her concerns over
Pride celebration and drug the potential sale of the Per-
abuse prevention group Jor- forming Arts Center, a popu-
dan’s Hope for Recovery. In lar performance and rehearsal
2016, she joined the Colum- space owned by the college
bia Pacific Coordinated Care where she studied ballet as a
Organization’s Community child. But her interest in join-
Advisory Council and the ing the board was more about
Astoria Arts and Movement curiosity, she said.
“I grew up here in Asto-
Center Board.
ria, and I’ve watched the town
change, and I’ve watched
the college change — some
incredible, incredible changes
most recently,” she said. “It’s
really exciting.”
In deliberation, board
members favored the youth
and deep local ties of Mazza-
rella, 36, over Taylor, 60, who
recently moved to Astoria.
“She’ll definitely send
people our way,” said Board
Member Tessa Scheller.
Wingard defeated Pamela
Mattson McDonald in May
for a new four-year term on
the college board. Mazzarella
will complete the first two
years of his term. She must
then run for election in May
to serve the final two years.
Expires 1/12/18
The Clatsop County Dem-
ocratic Central Committee
and American Association of
University Women are host-
ing a meeting tonight about
the benefits of Measure 101,
the health care provider tax
being voted on this month.
The measure asks Ore-
gon voters to affirm or over-
turn more than $300 mil-
lion in new, temporary taxes
on hospitals and other health
care providers over the next
two years. The taxes were
approved by the state Leg-
islature, but referred to vot-
ers after a signature-gath-
ering effort by Republican
state Reps. Julie Parrish of
West Linn, Cedric Hayden of
Roseburg and Sal Esquivel of
Medford.
Zinke announced the plan,
saying that responsible devel-
opment of offshore energy
resources would boost jobs and
economic security while pro-
viding billions of dollars to
fund conservation along U.S.
coastlines.
The five-year plan would
open 90 percent of the
nation’s offshore reserves
to development by private
companies, Zinke said, with
47 leases proposed off the
nation’s coastlines from 2019
to 2024. Nineteen sales would
be off Alaska, 12 in the Gulf
of Mexico, nine in the Atlan-
tic and seven in the Pacific,
Clatsop College board adds Mazzarella
Proponents arguing “yes”
on the measure say the
money is needed to avoid up
to 350,000 low-income resi-
dents potentially losing health
care. Opponents arguing “no”
claim the additional revenue
is an unnecessary and unfair
tax that could be funneled to
things besides Medicaid.
Ballots are due by 8 p.m.
Jan. 23. County officials rec-
ommend placing them in an
official dropbox within two
weeks of that date, rather than
mailing.
The meeting is at 6:30 p.m.
tonight in the Blue Scorcher
Bakery & Cafe at 1493 Duane
St. in Astoria. Speakers will
include Erik Thorsen, CEO
of Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital, and Andy Davis, a data
analyst for Greater Oregon
Behavioral Health, Inc.
The Daily Astorian
decades. While some lawmak-
ers in those states support off-
shore drilling, the plan drew
immediate opposition from
governors up and down the
East Coast, including Republi-
can Govs. Rick Scott of Flor-
ida and Larry Hogan of Mary-
land, who pressed President
Donald Trump to withdraw
their states from consideration.
Democratic governors on
both coasts blasted the plan.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
called it “another federal assault
on our environment” while
California Gov. Jerry Brown
vowed to block “this reckless,
short-sighted action.”
Gov. Kate Brown in Oregon
and Washington state Gov. Jay
Inslee also condemned the idea.
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