A4 The BulleTin • Friday, april 2, 2021
Hazardous waste landfill in
Eastern Oregon plans expansion
Another Washington
man accused of
storming U.S. Capitol
Associated Press
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON — The com-
pany operating Oregon’s only
hazardous waste landfill says it
needs more space as it antici-
pates a future influx of waste.
Military cleanups, federal
Superfund sites and firefighter
training facilities are among
reasons cited by Chemical
Waste Management, or CWM,
to expand its hazardous waste
operation outside the Colum-
bia River town of Arlington,
Oregon Public Broadcasting re-
ported Tuesday.
CWM spokesperson Jackie
Lang said the expansion is
about “making sure that dan-
gerous materials and poten-
tially dangerous materials are
managed safely in the years
ahead.”
The hazardous waste landfill
sits on nearly 1,300 acres next
to Oregon’s largest solid waste
landfill run by the same parent
company, Waste Management.
CWM is currently permitted
to use 320 acres for hazardous
waste disposal and wants to
add 200 acres of disposal space.
The company will apply to
modify its permit with the Or-
VANCOUVER, Wash. —
Federal agents on Tuesday
arrested a Washington state
man accused of breaching the
U.S Capitol on Jan. 6, pushing
past police and entering the
Senate gallery.
Marc Bru, 41, was arrested
in Vancouver and appeared
in U.S. District Court in Port-
land on Wednesday, The Ore-
gonian reported.
An arrest warrant affidavit
contains images that appear to
show Bru flashing the “OK”
white power hand symbol
while attending a pro-Trump
rally in Washington, D.C.,
then marching with a crowd
to the U.S. Capitol.
About 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 6,
video footage shows Bru en-
tering the Senate Gallery and
later exiting, according to the
affidavit.
One photo appears to
show Bru with swim goggles
around his neck and the an-
tenna of a walkie-talkie radio
clipped to his sweatshirt inside
the U.S. Capitol, FBI agent Ju-
lianna Dippold wrote in the
affidavit.
The FBI learned of Bru’s
activities largely through tips,
Chemical Waste Management/Contributed Photo via East Oregonian
An undated file photo shows leachate evaporation ponds at the CWM hazardous waste landfill in Arlington.
egon Department of Environ-
mental Quality.
David Anderson, DEQ
cleanup, hazardous waste per-
mitting and emergency re-
sponse manager, said the exist-
ing hazardous waste landfill “is
approximately half full.” With
new waste streams such as the
Portland Harbor Superfund
cleanup, more space will soon
become critical, Anderson said.
CWM’s Arlington landfill
has played a key role in the
region since opening in the
1970s. The United States had
18 commercial hazardous
waste landfill facilities as of
2019 — one apiece in Oregon
and Idaho, and none in Wash-
ington.
OSHA investigating deaths by 25-ton excavator
BY LESLIE THOMPSON
Argus Observer
WESTFALL — Oregon Oc-
cupational Safety and Health
is investigating the deaths of
two men who were crushed
by an excavator in Westfall last
month.
The investigation could take
three or four months, accord-
ing to an email from Aaron
Corvin, spokesman for the
agency.
Malheur County Sheriff
Brian Wolfe, who was among
Stimulus
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Biden hailed the legislation as
generating “economic growth
for the entire nation.”
“It focuses on rebuilding the
backbone of this country —
working families, the middle
class, the people who built this
country,” he said.
Oregon’s two Democratic
senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff
Merkley, voted for the bill.
Three of the state’s five House
members — all Democrats
— voted for the bill: Suzanne
Bonamici, Peter DeFazio and
Earl Blumenauer.
Critics of the bill said the
price tag was too large and that
much of the spending wasn’t
targeted at issues created by the
COVID-19 crisis.
U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, was among the Repub-
licans in the House opposing
the bill.
U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader,
D-Canby, was one of two Dem-
ocrats to oppose the bill. He
said he was angry that members
of Congress were not allowed to
offer amendments of their own
during the House vote. He also
those who responded to the
call at about 8:45 a.m. March
12, said a caller indicated
that two people were possibly
trapped under the tracks of an
excavator.
When emergency personnel
arrived, the men were already
dead, and it appeared they had
died immediately.
According to Wolfe, Greg
Quant, 57, of Burns, was op-
erating the excavator. He had
just finished up some work for
Roger Wheeler, of Westfall,
who went down to the area to
talk to him after the job was
finished.
When Quant was standing
on the tracks “either getting out
or back in, that part is unclear,
it appears as if he hit the safety
lever and the excavator en-
gaged into gear,” Wolfe said.
When it engaged, it threw
him to the ground, according
to the sheriff, who said the wit-
ness believed that Wheeler had
jumped down in an effort to
save Quant when the machine
ran over both of them.
The heavy equipment was
a John Deer 225 D excavator,
weighing 25 tons, Wolfe said.
“It was a very, very unfor-
tunate incident,” Wolfe said.
“Both men were well-known
in their respective commu-
nities. They were both good,
hard-working men, just doing
their jobs and it appears as if a
mistake was made.”
OSHA investigators came
out from Bend that day, Wolfe
said.
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believed the bill could be unfair
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In an interview with KGW tele-
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at Democrats who said he wasn’t
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“You want someone that’s
going to be a party hack, elect
somebody else, Schrader said.
“You want someone that’s going
to represent the 5th Congressio-
nal District of Oregon and my
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according to the affidavit.
Bru is charged in federal
court in Washington, D.C.,
with knowingly entering or
remaining in any restricted
building or grounds without
lawful authority, engaging in
disorderly or disruptive con-
duct in any restricted building
or grounds, violent entry and
disorderly conduct on capitol
grounds, obstruction of law
enforcement during civil dis-
order, and obstruction of Jus-
tice and Congress.
Oregon’s U.S. Magistrate
Judge Youlee Yim You ordered
Bru’s pretrial release with GPS
monitoring. The judge found
Bru has long-standing com-
munity ties and family in the
area, and some evidence of
employment. He must sur-
render travel documents, stay
away from Washington, D.C.,
and not posses firearms, the
judge ordered.
Bru hasn’t yet entered pleas
to the charges. It wasn’t im-
mediately known if he has an
attorney to comment on his
case.
At least four other people
in Washington state have also
been charged in connection
with the insurrection.
Portland man sentenced to 17
years in child pornography case
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A Port-
land man who served 12
years in prison for sexually
abusing a child in California
was sentenced Monday to
serve 17 more years after us-
ing Facebook Messenger to
convince a teenager to take
sexually explicit videos of
himself.
Prosecutors said Scott
Lawrence, 57, posed online
as a woman and communi-
cated with the teenager from
South Dakota, The Orego-
nian reported.
Lawrence obtained the
boy’s videos and distributed
a graphic image of the boy to
two other people, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman
said. Lawrence pleaded guilty
to receiving and distributing
child pornography and vio-
lating his supervised release
conditions from a 2018 con-
viction for failure to register
as a sex offender.
U.S. District Judge Robert
E. Jones ordered Lawrence to
face a life term of supervised
release following his 17-year
federal prison term.
Sussman argued the
lengthy sentence was neces-
sary to protect the public.
Both the prosecutor and
Lawrence’s lawyer, Francesca
Freccero, jointly recom-
mended the prison sentence
imposed by the judge.
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