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state in an effort to lower
emissions over time. With
a Democratic majority in
the Senate, HB 2020 likely
would have passed if put to
a vote. However, Oregon
law requires a minimum
of 20 senators to vote on
any bill that comes to the
senate floor — so with Re-
publicans out of the state
and unwilling to vote, HB
2020 was stalled until right
before the time limit for the
2019 Legislative Session.
HB 2020 also included a
rise in gas prices, starting at
an increase of approximate-
ly 19 to 72 cents per gallon,
and would continue to rise
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with time, in an effort to
transition away from fossil
fuels.
“Fuel is our life blood be-
cause we have to drive so
far to get to our jobs. We
have fuel that takes our logs
to the mills in trucks, we
fuel our equipment. But the
fuel increase would affect
all Oregonians that already
have struggles,” Waggoner
said.
Senate Bill 1051, pro-
posed as a companion bill
to HB 2020, offered rebates
to loggers and farmers to
help offset the rise in fuel
prices, but Waggoner says
those who already live
week-to-week
wouldn’t
benefit from this.
“The fuel increases, and
the restrictions that are put
on businesses like ours, we
knew were very dangerous.
We have four log trucks,
dump trucks, shop trucks
and rigs that take crews to
the woods, so the fuel cost
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alone would be the most
dramatic. We felt like we
wouldn’t be able to do busi-
ness in Oregon,” Waggoner
said.
Transportation is the
largest contributor to Ore-
gon greenhouse gasses, but
Waggoner says the logging
industry is also producing
a clean product that helps
offset carbon emissions.
“Wood is carbon catch-
ing. At the rally someone
said, ‘We as the logging
community do stuff every
day to reduce carbon be-
cause we replant our trees,
we are always advancing
in making our equipment
more
environmentally
friendly and then the prod-
ucts we produce are carbon
storing. Somehow, we are
really one of the few peo-
ple who are actually doing
things to minimize the car-
bon footprint, but some-
how we are the bad guys’
— and I said ‘Yes, you’re
right!’” she said.
R&R employs 65 to 70
employees at a time, and
Waggoner said if HB 2020
passed, she might not be
able to continue operating
in the state, adding it felt
like the proposed bills at-
tacked her way-of-life.
“I knew we had to fight
this,” Waggoner said. “Oth-
er people’s voices weren’t
heard. Rural Oregon makes
up a lot of the state geo-
graphically, and we are an
important part of the state
because of the economic
portion we provide, so I’m
really proud of the senators
for what they did.”
House Bill 2007, also on
the senate floor, aimed to
phase out diesel engines in
trucks that were made be-
fore 2007, as engines made
post 2007 filter out particu-
late pollutants.
Local resident Gary Fo-
glio of Foglio Trucking said
he also sent trucks up to the
Salem rally to support the
senators who left the state
over HB 2020.
“It would be financially
impossible to upgrade all of
my equipment to the new
standards,” he said.
Ultimately, HB 2007 was
passed, but amended to
only apply in Multnomah,
Washington and Clacka-
mas counties.
Senate Republican Lead-
er Herman Baertschiger
said in a statement released
June 28 following the Tim-
ber United rally, “Cap-and-
Trade is dead. We couldn’t
have won the fight against
HB 2020 without the in-
credible grassroots sup-
port. Loggers, farmers,
truckers, concerned moth-
ers and many others came
together, spoke up and
were able to send a strong
message that the egregious
policy of HB 2020 will not
be allowed to hurt their
families.”
“To take a stand with
people who think and feel
like you was great,” Wag-
goner said, adding she
felt it was important to go
to Salem to represent the
coast as a community, to
represent R&R’s employ-
ees, and to support the
culture of hands-on hard-
working families that she
says make up the logging
community. “The hardest
impact it has is on these
great employees and their
families. These are some of
the hardest working people
around, and they sacrifice a
lot to do the jobs they do.”
It isn’t as though the log-
gers do not care about the
environment or efforts to
decrease pollution, accord-
ing to Waggoner, who said
the environment is import-
ant to both her business
and the workers.
“We are always proud
of the job we do,” she said.
“The guys that work for
us love the outdoors. They
hunt, they fish, they hike.
They love the outdoors and
they love the jobs they do.
They want it to be here for
perpetuity, and they want
it to be here for their fam-
ilies. At their core they care
about the environment in
the job they do every day.”
The logging industry also
looks at ways to reduce ero-
sion, utilize wood products
fully and replant forests
sustainably.
“As an industry, we look
at ways there can be less
soil compaction with the
equipment we buy. That’s
an ever-evolving science,”
Waggoner said.
Soil compaction is the
process of stress being ap-
plied to the soil, which
causes the soil pores to be
reduced, lessening water
infiltration and drainage,
ultimately making the land
more susceptible to runoff
and erosion.
“Also, using more of the
logs helps cut waste. With
our new processing ma-
chines, they are digitized
— they’re more precise in
measuring log lengths so
you’re using more of each
log,” Waggoner said.
Oregon requires replant-
ing after timber harvest,
and new research from the
Birmingham Institute of
Forest Research in the U.K.
shows that younger forests
are better at sequestering
carbon than older forests.
Waggoner says there is
one way that a bill like HB
2020 would work for her
business.
“Incentivizing is the key.
That doesn’t have to mean
giving people money, but
giving them tax credits. If
the goal is to reduce emis-
sions and the carbon foot-
print, then incentivize it,”
she suggested. “Are there
more things we could do?
Maybe, so show us what
some of those things are.
We want to know. I think
that’s how you do things.
You partner with business,
and you don’t treat them
like they’re the bad guy.
You partner with them and
say, ‘How can we do this
to achieve what really is a
shared goal?’”
HB 2020 ultimately did
not pass.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
discussed the bill’s demise
in an address to the pub-
lic, saying, “The young
people who stood in the
senate chamber through-
out the session and plead-
ed for their future, I will
continue to fight for their
futures. We must pass a
cap-and-invest
program
that will achieve the state’s
greenhouse gas reduction
goals at the least possible
cost while continuing to
grow our economy. Let me
be clear, I am not backing
down.”
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