From The Daily "A": Samuelson Wants To Debate The Recall Petitioners?

From "The Daily Astorian" - Friday, September 4, 2009

Samuelson Wants A Debate On The Issues
GRP: As if this "Circus " hasn't already spun out of control to the side of absurdity on the part of this one County Commissioner, in my view, now she wants to ramp it up to another extreme by challenging the recall pertitioners to a debate?

Should she not be, if as she says she has so much overwhelming support from her constuituents in District 5, leaving the decision in whose trust she presumbaly serves in the hands of those constituents to determine her fate?

If they truly do trust in her leadership, what has she got to worry about? Why challenge them to a wrestling match?

Clatsop County Commissioner Ann Samuelson has thrown down the gauntlet. But nobody's picking it back up.

She's challenging the chief petitioner in a recall against her, Cannon Beach resident Betsy Ayres, to a debate at the Seaside City Hall.

She has even set a time, at 6 p.m. Sept. 24, but her main challenger isn't taking her up on it.

"I'm finding, when people gather, we don't have to be mad about something," Samuelson said. "Let's get something done."

Ayres said she and Samuelson had spoken about a public debate before."There are a lot of things the commissioners are not willing to discuss with the public," Ayres said.

Samuelson said she believes the recall petition is based on misinformation, and that it's important for her district to hear the facts. She said she will be at the city hall at the scheduled time to discuss the flier that her opponents, a group calling itself Democracy in District 5, is circulating about her service to the community.

Ayres said she's not running for office."It's not about me. It's about Ann and her record," Ayres said. "I am not interested in having a debate."

Clatsop County: The North/South Divide

Somebody want to take a shot at explaining exactly what that, "The North/South County Divide", is?

The subject was brought up at a dinner party last night and when queried as to what she meant, the exclaimer had no clue "now that you ask it but, Commissioner Samuelson says it all the time about doing away with it."

I guess you can all guess where it went after that but, please, you got an answer?

Give it to us.

The Port: Introducing The I-5 Short Sea Shipping Marine Highway

This is a Slide Show on the prospective new relationship between Port of Astoria and Santa Maria Shipping LLC in Short Sea Shipping and quite possibly a bright future for many here should the deal not be "Queered" in some way or another.

Introducing The I-5 Marine Highway

Northern Star's Salem Based Talking Head, Deister, Speaks

8/28/2009 10:48:00 AM
From The Daily Astorian - Letters To The Editor

Letter: Another viewpoint by: Charles Deister, Northern Start Natural Gas, Salem. Oregon GRP: One can only imagine whose ears this guy is bending down at the seat of our State Government and with this message yet?

The Daily Astorian's editorial (Sen. Jeff Merkley exposes the dirty little secret about Bradwood LNG" (only exposed the editorial writer's misunderstanding of basic economics and how natural gas markets work.Regarding the idea of a ban on exporting natural gas from Bradwood Landing or any other Oregon LNG terminal, NorthernStar Natural Gas is not opposed to the idea. As we have previously told several state officials, the idea of exporting LNG from an Oregon terminal is so patently absurd that we would happily sign a contract with the state of Oregon or any requisite federal authority committing that our facility would never export gas. This offer still stands...You Gotta Read This!

Port Of Bellingham Contests NOAA Move To Newport

07:54 AM PDT

Monday, August 31, 2009

By KGW Staff

WASHINGTON -- Another group is challenging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to move a fleet of research ships from Seattle to Newport, Ore. More: NOAA move

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A Reminder About Shipbreaking: G.O.B. Or Tree Hugger, It Is A Dangerously Dirty Business

GRP: Listening this morning to one of our local businessmen bemoaning, in front of a sniggering and bemused Clatsop County Commission, the loss of a Shipbreaking opportunity in our community, I thought it might be prudent to update a few as to the dangers of this kind of business and no matter how one tries to twist this one, it just, in my view, is absolutely not for this part of the country.

Hazards In Ship Breaking Procedures
Article by Raunekk For "Bright Hub"

This article deals with the numerous dangers that the ship breaking industry imposes on its workers and the people living in the surrounding areas.
In a previous article we discussed the main factors for the deportation of the ships to developing countries from the rich countries. Breaking of obsolete vessels may involve number of challenges and also a high level of danger.

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"Pyrolysis" - Wood-To-Oil Technology May Hold Benefits In Thinning Our State Forests

By Jeff Barnard
The Associated Press
Appeared In: The Register-Guard, Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 ,

MERLIN — For the past decade that the U.S. Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of trees in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.
Young trees are too small for lumber. Transporting the bulky material to biomass power plants is too expensive. And cutting big trees to pay for thinning the small ones often runs afoul of environmental laws.

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