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Newspaper Page TextA2 THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 LNG protesters arrested in Brown’s ofﬁ ce IN BRIEF Project near Coos Bay Peninsula razor clam digs to open Sunday LONG BEACH, Wash. — Razor clam diggers can return to ocean beaches on the peninsula for a sev- en-day opening beginning Sunday. State shellﬁ sh managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife approved the dig on evening low tides after marine toxin tests showed the clams are safe to eat. “It’s great to ﬁ nd time for digs over the Thanks- giving holiday,” said Dan Ayres, state coastal shell- ﬁ sh manager. “Razor clams are a great addition to your feast, and it’s fun to bring guests from out of state along for a distinctive Washington experience.” — Chinook Observer Seaside names new school and mascot SEASIDE — The deafening cheers of more than 700 students permeated the gymnasium at The Heights Elementary School on Wednesday during a joint assembly with Gearhart Elementary School at which the school’s new name, mascot and colors were revealed. Effective July 1, the Seaside School District’s elementary school at the new campus will be called Paciﬁ c Ridge Elementary School, while Broadway Middle School is being renamed Seaside Middle School to reﬂ ect the relocation. The new elementary school’s colors will be tur- quoise, black and silver, while the middle school will transition to white, black and Columbia blue. During the joint assembly, it was also revealed that the new mascot of Paciﬁ c Ridge Elementary School will be the pufﬁ n, an iconic bird species of the North Coast. The middle school will remain the sharks. Cannon Beach police ofﬁ cer to graduate from academy Christian Salinas of the Cannon Beach Police Department will graduate Dec. 6 at the Oregon Pub- lic Safety Academy in Salem. The basic police class is 16-week training in areas including survival skills, ﬁ rearms, emergency vehi- cle operations, ethics, cultural diversity, problem solving, community policing, elder abuse, drug rec- ognition and other subjects. — The Astorian Carcass of giant blue whale brought to surface for study NEWPORT — The carcass of a giant blue whale that’s been submerged off the Oregon Coast for more than three years is being hauled to the surface so it can be reassembled, studied and put on public display. Oregon State University said Friday that the dead whale washed ashore near Gold Beach in 2015. It’s extremely rare for a blue whale to wash ashore intact, as the creatures can be the length of two school buses. Scientists removed 58 tons of its ﬂ esh and then placed the bones in the water off Newport so scaven- gers could pick them clean. The university says the 365 bones were brought back to land Thursday, including 18-foot-long man- dibles and a skull weighing 6,500 pounds. The skeleton’s reassembly will take a year. — Associated Press MEMORIALS Sunday, Nov. 24 RODRIGUEZ-MAR- TINEZ, Ruben — Visitation from 3 to 6 p.m., rosary at 5 p.m., Hughes-Ransom Mortu- ary, 576 12th St. Rodri- guez-Martinez, 77, of Astoria, died Wednes- day, Nov. 20, 2019, in Seaside. Monday, Nov. 25 RODRIGUEZ-MAR- TINEZ, Ruben — Visi- tation from 10 to 11 a.m., funeral Mass at 11 a.m., Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, 120 Oceanway in Seaside. Committal service fol- lows at Evergreen Ceme- tery in Seaside. ON THE RECORD Assault • Sivai Folausaua Bennett, 59, of Seaside, pleaded no contest Wednesday to assault in the second degree and two counts of recklessly endangering another person. By SAM STITES Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — State police ended a protest and occupa- tion of Gov. Kate Brown’s ofﬁ ce Thursday night over the Jordan Cove liqueﬁ ed natural gas project by arrest- ing 21 people for criminal trespass. They were the remaining demonstrators who ﬁ lled the governor’s ceremonial ofﬁ ce Thursday afternoon to show their opposition to the proj- ect in Coos Bay. The protest started with hundreds on the Capitol steps before moving inside to the rotunda midday and then to Brown’s ofﬁ ce on the second ﬂ oor. Brown wasn’t in the ofﬁ ce at the time but did talk to protesters by phone. Later in the evening, she returned and talked with those occu- pying her ofﬁ ce. “I believe that Oregonians are best served by knowing TUESDAY Astoria Planning Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. Warrenton City Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. Seaside Airport Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Established July 1, 1873 Circulation phone number: 503-325-3211 Periodicals postage paid at Astoria, OR (USPS 035-000) Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503-325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Astorian, PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210 DailyAstorian.com ADVERTISING OWNERSHIP All advertising copy and illustrations prepared by The Astorian become the property of The Astorian and may not be reproduced for any use without explicit prior approval. COPYRIGHT © Entire contents © Copyright, 2019 by The Astorian. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER CERTIFIED AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS, INC. that there is a fair process and that I’m not putting my ﬁ n- ger on the scale one way or another,” the governor told the occupiers, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. “Because as you know, your community is quite divided on this issue. Your commu- nity is extremely divided on this issue.” Thomas Joseph, a leader of the sit-in, said that around By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE — Washing- ton state dealt a setback Fri- day to efforts to build one of the world’s biggest meth- anol plants on the Columbia River, saying that ﬁ ve years in, its backers had failed to provide enough informa- tion about its greenhouse gas emissions and how they would be offset. The $2 billion North- west Innovation Works project would take natural gas from Canada and con- vert it into methanol, which would be shipped to China to make oleﬁ ns — com- pounds used in everything from fabrics and contact lenses to iPhones and medi- cal equipment. Backers, including Cowlitz County and the Port of Kalama, said the project would reduce global green- house gas emissions by dis- placing China’s use of coal to make methanol. They provided regulators with a third-party analysis sug- gesting that over the proj- ect’s life it would reduce global emissions by at least 10 million metric tons per year. They called that the sin- gle largest initiative in Washington for reducing emissions — equivalent to removing more than 2 mil- lion cars from the road. But environmental groups said there was no evidence to support that statement and that the proj- Amanda Cowan/The Columbian Mark Keely, of Kalama, stands with other protesters outside the Washington Department of Ecology’s Vancouver ﬁ eld oﬃ ce in 2017. ect would create huge emis- sions of its own. In its deci- sion Friday, the Washington Department of Ecology said further review was neces- sary “to determine the ade- quacy of the proposed miti- gation for the project.” The review is expected to take about a year. “The company continues to rely on this very dubious claim that their methanol is going to replace dirtier methanol made from coal,” said Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of the conservation group Colum- bia Riverkeeper. “There’s just no justiﬁ cation for that. The Department of Ecology is doing its job.” In emailed statements, Northwest Innovation Works said Friday it was disappointed but “prepared for the long haul” and ready to prove its project will reduce global emissions. The company, which is backed by the Chinese gov- In observance of Thanks- giving Day on Thursday, all federal and state ofﬁ ces are closed. County and city ofﬁ ces and services, includ- ing Astoria, Warrenton, Gearhart, Seaside and Can- non Beach city halls, are closed Thursday and Fri- day. All U.S. post ofﬁ ces are closed Thursday, and there is no mail delivery. Warrenton/Hammond and Seaside (including Can- non Beach and Gearhart) school district schools are closed Monday through Friday. Astoria, Jewell and Knappa school district schools are closed Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday. Clatsop Community Col- lege is closed Thursday and Friday. Please ADOPT A PET! 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The company says that because producing metha- nol from natural gas costs about half what it costs to make from coal, it would have a competitive advan- tage — as well as an envi- ronmental one — over Chi- nese methanol production. “If this doesn’t get built, the result will not be less material produced in the world,” Kent Caputo, gen- eral counsel of Northwest Innovation Works, said ear- lier this week. “It will be that those materials will be produced in countries that do not adhere to the envi- ronmental and regulatory standards that Washington state has.” Ecology requested addi- tional information about the emissions in its com- ments on a draft environ- mental impact statement last year. The backers then ﬁ led a supplemental envi- ronmental impact statement in August. Ecology again requested more information in October and gave sup- porters 30 days to produce it. They responded on Nov. 4, objecting that some of the information sought had already been provided or was beyond what state law required. Ecology’s decision Fri- day came about a week after conservation and pub- lic health groups, includ- ing Columbia Riverkeeper, the Sierra Club and Wash- ington Physicians for Social Responsibility, sued in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to invalidate key federal per- mits for the project. The groups said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not properly consider the huge amount of green- house gases the project would emit — more than 1 million tons per year, an amount that would increase Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions by 1%. They also said fed- eral reviews had failed to properly consider the proj- ect’s effects on threatened salmon runs and on endan- gered orcas. Local ofﬁ cials have sup- ported the project, noting it would bring about 1,000 construction jobs and 190 longer-term positions to the region. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee used to support it, saying it would help clean up China’s plastics indus- try. He changed his mind last May amid his short- lived presidential run, which centered on combat- ting climate change. He said that because of the urgency of the threat from global warming, he could no lon- ger support launching mas- sive new fossil-fuel infra- structure in the state. Ofﬁ ces across region close for Thanksgiving Printed on recycled paper MAIL (IN COUNTY) EZpay (per month) ...............................................................................................................$11.25 13 weeks in advance ...........................................................................................................$37.00 26 weeks in advance ...........................................................................................................$71.00 52 weeks in advance ........................................................................................................ $135.00 9:30 p.m., the Oregon State Police ordered about 65 pro- testers to disperse. At that time, many of those remaining packed up and left the Capitol, but 21 individuals stayed and were arrested by state troopers. The Jordan Cove proj- ect includes a gas pipeline running across 229 miles of Oregon landscape, from the border town of Malin east of Washington state deals setback to massive methanol plant The Astorian PUBLIC MEETINGS Jake Thomas/Oregon Capital Bureau Demonstrators protesting the proposed Jordan Cove liqueﬁ ed natural gas facility staged a sit-in Thursday at Gov. Kate Brown’s ceremonial oﬃ ce in the Capitol in Salem. Klamath Falls to Coos Bay. Proponents say the proj- ect would be an economic boon for Coos County, while environmentalists say the risks to Oregon’s environ- ment are signiﬁ cant. According to a press release from Southern Ore- gon Rising Tide, one of those arrested was 72-year-old Sandy Lyons, a landowner in Days Creek who would be impacted by the pipeline. Lyons said Thursday that her family has lived and worked on their Douglas County ranch for nearly 30 years and have been ﬁ ght- ing the pipeline for the past 15 years. “I am here today because we have tried every possi- ble way to be heard and want somehow to gain the gover- nor’s attention to how wrong this is, and the negative ways in which it will permanently scar us and our land,” Lyons said. The Oregon Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group, Pamplin Media Group and Salem Reporter. The Astoria Library, Sea- side Library and Warrenton Library are closed Thursday and Friday. The Port of Astoria ofﬁ ces close early Wednes- day and are closed Thursday and Friday. There is no garbage col- lection Thursday through Recology Western Oregon. Customers whose regular pickup day is Thursday will have their garbage picked up on Friday. C ustomers with a Friday pickup date will have their garbage picked up Sat- urday. The Astoria Transfer Station is closed Thursday. There is no garbage col- lection Thursday by the city of Warrenton. B oth Thurs- day’s and Friday’s garbage will be picked up on Friday. The Sunset Pool in Sea- side is closed Thursday. The Astoria Aquatic Cen- ter is open from 5 to 11 a.m. Thursday. The Clatsop County Heritage Museum, Oregon Film Museum and Flavel House and Carriage House are closed Thursday. The Uppertown Fireﬁ ghters’ Museum is closed for the winter. Lil’ Sprouts is closed Thursday and Friday. Fort Clatsop is open Thurs- day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Columbia River Mar- itime Museum and Sea- side Museum are closed Thursday. Sunset Empire Transpor- tation (“The Bus”) is not running Thursday. The Astorian ofﬁ ces are closed Thursday. Thurs- day’s newspaper is being mailed Wednesday. 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