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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2021
IN BRIEF
Coast Guard rescues people,
crab from boat off Gearhart
Four people and 9,000 pounds of crab were rescued
about 3 miles off the Gearhart coast on Wednesday.
At about 4:40 p.m., U.S. Coast Guard Station Cape
Disappointment learned that a 40-foot vessel had
experienced a transmission failure while out to sea.
The station sent out a motor lifeboat that towed the
disabled vessel to the Warrenton Marina, mooring it at
about 9:15 p.m.
Fishing boat owner fi ned for negligence
The owner of a commercial fi shing boat has been
fi ned $5,000 by the U.S. Coast Guard for negligence
that nearly caused a two-vessel collision on the Colum-
bia River on Monday morning.
The owner was traveling outbound before sun-
rise in a 48-foot fi shing boat near Buoy No. 8. With-
out warning, the vessel sailed across the bow of the
inbound Grand Race, a 587-foot-long cargo ship, to
move from the Oregon to the Washington state side of
the river’s navigation channel.
State discloses virus cases at local schools
The Oregon Health Authority has disclosed two
new coronavirus cases at schools in Clatsop County.
Both cases were from Seaside Middle School, accord-
ing to the health authority’s weekly outbreak report. One
was a student and the other was a staff member.
The health authority, meanwhile, reported two new
virus cases for the county on Thursday. Since the pan-
demic began, the county had recorded 2,629 virus
cases as of Thursday.
— The Astorian
DEATHS
Dec. 2, 2021
In ANDERSON,
Brief
Cather-
ine Jean, 72, of Warren-
ton, died in Warrenton.
Deaths
Caldwell’s
Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Asto-
ria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Dec. 1, 2021
CHRISTENSEN,
Mary Lee, 93, of Med-
ford, died in Medford.
Litwiller-Simonsen
Funeral Home of Ash-
land is in charge of the
arrangements.
Nov. 30, 2021
SNYDER,
Florence
Ellen Melissa, 71, of Ham-
mond, died in Hammond.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
Nov. 25, 2021
PATTERSON, Mary-
Ann, 93, of Eugene, for-
merly of Astoria, died
in Eugene. Smith-Lund-
Mills Funeral Chapel and
Crematorium in Cottage
Grove is in charge of the
arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
Attempted assault
degree and criminal mis-
On
the
• Toni
Lee Record
Ram- chief in the third degree
vick, 37, of Astoria, was
indicted on Nov. 18 for
attempted assault in the
second degree, unlawful
use of a weapon and men-
acing constituting domes-
tic violence. The alleged
crimes occurred the previ-
ous week.
Theft
•
Darcy
Juanice
Ketchum, 53, of Eugene,
was arrested on Thurs-
day at Walmart in Warren-
ton for theft in the second
degree. She was found to
have a statewide felony
warrant for her arrest.
• Tyler August Riek-
kola, 31, of Astoria,
and Cheyenne Raylean
Parker, 19, of Warrenton,
were arrested on Tues-
day for theft in the second
after allegedly shoplifting
at Walmart in Warrenton.
Riekkola was also charged
with harassment. The pair
hid in the woods near the
store and were arrested at
gunpoint in the east-end
parking lot.
• Jana Vorasicky, 40,
of Astoria, was arrested
on Nov. 27 at Walmart in
Warrenton for theft in the
second degree.
DUII
• Curtis Eugene New-
man, 46, of Kelso, Wash-
ington, was arrested on
Wednesday on U.S. High-
way 30 near milepost 84
for driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants, driv-
ing while suspended and
giving false information to
an offi cer.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Clatsop County Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan Steer-
ing Committee, 10 a.m., (electronic meeting).
Seaside Housing Task Force, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broad-
way.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Seaside Community Center Commission, 10 a.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A.
Clatsop Care Health District Board, 5 p.m., (electronic
meeting).
Astoria Planning Commission, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Clatsop County Fair Board, 5:30 p.m., 92937 Walluski
Loop, Astoria.
Cannon Beach City Council, 6 p.m., (electronic meeting).
Seaside Planning Commission, 6 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
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Lights at the Astoria Column are refl ected on wet pavement on Wednesday.
Jordan Cove: More than a decade in the making
Continued from Page A1
After several rounds of
back-and-forth,
Pembina
was unable to convince Ore-
gon state regulators that the
proposal could meet envi-
ronmental standards. Last
May, Jordan Cove offi cials
announced they were paus-
ing the project to consider
their options.
A coalition of aff ected
landowners — plus environ-
mental groups, tribes and the
s tate — appealed to the Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory Com-
mission to rescind its autho-
rization of the Jordan Cove
project. When the commis-
sion declined, the group
appealed to federal court. A
recent ruling in the District
of Columbia Circuit sent the
case back to the commission ,
which led the commission
to ask all parties to submit
updated briefs. In particular,
the commission asked Pem-
bina to clarify their intentions.
In response, Jordan Cove
on Wednesday fi led a brief
eff ectively pulling the plug
on the project, more than a
decade in the making.
“Applicants have under-
taken a review of permitting
developments and the pros-
pects for obtaining the per-
mits in the future,” accord-
ing to the brief . “Applicants
have now completed this
review and have decided not
to move forward with the
p roject. Among other consid-
erations, a pplicants remain
concerned regarding their
ability to obtain the necessary
state permits in the immedi-
ate future in addition to other
external obstacles.”
Susan Jane Brown is an
attorney with the Western
‘THIS JUST ATTESTS TO
THE INCREDIBLE WORK
OF LANDOWNERS, TRIBES,
S OUTHERN OREGONIANS AND
FOLKS ON THE SOUTH COAST
WHO HAVE STOOD UP TO THIS
PROJECT ... IT SHOWS THAT
WHEN OUR COMMUNITIES COME
TOGETHER TO STAND UP FOR
OUR HOMES, WE CAN WIN.’
Allie Rosenbluth | the campaigns director at the
Phoenix -based environmental group Rogue Climate
Environmental Law Center
in Eugene, which represented
landowners fi ghting Jordan
Cove. She said the decision
to abandon the project rep-
resents a hard-fought victory
for the environmental groups,
landowners, tribes and others
who have opposed it.
“For all of us that have
been working together to
fi ght this project for so long,
it’s a huge sigh of relief,” she
said . “And in a lot of ways it’s
hard to believe that maybe
it’s fi nally true.”
Allie Rosenbluth is the
campaigns director at the
Phoenix -based environmen-
tal group Rogue Climate.
She says that, even though
a series of regulatory and
legal setbacks has made Jor-
dan Cove look increasingly
unlikely to actually be built,
landowners in the pipeline’s
path have had to live with the
uncertainty about the future
of their land. Now, Rosen-
bluth said , that’s over.
“Landowners are no lon-
ger living under the fear of
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having their property seized,”
she said . “This project can’t
move forward.”
Rosenbluth said the suc-
cess of the campaign against
Jordan Cove shows the
power of sustained commu-
nity action.
“This just attests to the
incredible work of landown-
ers, tribes, s outhern Orego-
nians and folks on the South
Coast who have stood up to
this project ... It shows that
when our communities come
together to stand up for our
homes, we can win, ” she said.
Jordan Cove closed its
public relations operation in
s outhern Oregon more than
a year ago and the company
has largely been unrespon-
sive to requests for comment
in recent months. An email to
both Jordan Cove and Pem-
bina seeking comment on
Wednesday did not elicit a
response.
Jordan Cove was among
a number of LNG projects
pitched for Oregon in recent
years.
Oregon LNG dropped
plans for a $6 billion terminal
and pipeline in Warrenton in
2016 after community oppo-
sition and regulatory and
fi nancial obstacles. An LNG
project at Bradwood Land-
ing east of Astoria collapsed
in 2010.
“Congratulations to every-
one who’s worked so hard
to defeat this horrible pro-
posal,” Cheryl Johnson and
Laurie Caplan, the co-chairs
of Columbia Pacifi c Com-
mon Sense, said of the Jor-
dan Cove project. “The NO
LNGers who defeated two
LNG terminals and pipelines
proposed for the Columbia
River share in your joy!
“Kudos to fantastic orga-
nizing, legal expertise and
grassroots perseverance! Cel-
ebrate wildly!”
The Astorian contributed
to this report.
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