The Ruby Pipeline - Rivalling Current Proposed LNG Terminal Projects - On Track For Spring Start

Ruby gas pipeline -- that would rival proposed LNG terminals in Oregon -- on track for spring work

From: Oregon Business News
By The Oregonian staff and wire reports

April 07, 2010, 7:37PM

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- El Paso Corp. said today that construction of the $3 billion Ruby gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon is on track to begin later this spring following Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval of the project.

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Bradwood Landing - The Next Round Of Hearings: You Want to Be Heard You Damned Well Better Be There Today At 1:00 P.M To Get Your Name On The List!!!.

....."Notice is hereby given that the Clatsop County Hearings Officer will conduct a public hearing, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, in the Judge Guy Boyington Building, located at 857 Commercial Street, Astoria, Oregon, to consider the following consolidated application:"....

You don't get your name on the list to present your view today, you won't get on at all so, don't think if the hearings continue to the next day or next week you can sign-up to speak that day!!

Staff Application Recommendations

Shoreline Monitoring Plan - Denied With Conditions

Dredged Material Disposal Plan - Approved With Conditions

Park And Ride Lot - Denied With Conditions

Mitigation Plan - Denied With Conditions

Bradwood Landing Erosion Control Plan - Approved With Conditions

Conditional Use Permit - Approved With Conditions

Decommission Plan - Denied With Conditions

Riparian Vegetation - Approved With Conditions

(Bottom Line...County Says Meet All County, State And Federal Requirements And We'll Talk. NSNG/Bradwood Implies..."Trust Us We'll Get To All That Stuff Later")

Go Here For All Staff Findings And Recommendations

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Debra Birkby Challenges Samuelson Replacement Mushen For District Five Clatsop County Board Of Commissioners Post

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Peter Huhtala Vies For John Raichl's Clatsop County Board of Commissioners Seat - District 3

Visit Huhtala's Campaign Site For More Voter Information And Background

Scott Lee Takes On Jeff Hazen For Clatsop County Commission - District One Seat

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Clatsop D.A. Marquis And Other State D.A.'s Say Suspended Measure 57 Numbers Inflated By State Law Makers

From: KATU.COM

PORTLAND, Ore. - A tough-on-crime measure passed by Oregon voters was suspended by state lawmakers because they said the state couldn’t afford it, but according to a preliminary report by district attorneys, legislators made their decision on bad data.

Measure 57 was passed by a strong majority of voters and called for cracking down on criminals habitually breaking into homes and stealing cars.

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Astoria: Derelict, Abandoned, Delapidated Properties: A Cure Or A Curse?

Tonight April 5, 2010, The City of Astoria plans to unveil the result of Acrchitects input on the remodel/renovation of our City Hall and also host a discusiion on what to do with our fine city's delapidated, abandoned and derelict properties.

An interesting irony here is that our own City Hall is adjacent and attached to an abandoned, delapidated building in the old Waldorf Hotel, itself in a forced exile for lack of an investor or real plan to bring it back to life.

Add to this the controversial downtown Flavel properties among others and other properties to east and west, we have a real mess and a very touchey situation as to how to enforce some movement remedying these, what some would call blights on our cityscape.

The big question is...Do we punish these property owners or help them and then how do we enforce the final resolution?

Just on my side of town there are several properties that alone riase some serious enforcement question of which I will let you decide and here they are.

31st & Marine: A property with a structure more commonly called "The Bunkhouse" and by the way, listed on the National Historic Register,still languishing under the ownership of a local and prominent businessman and is still a virtual, unuseable shell of a building with no indication of it or any of the other parts of the property but, one, a habitable house, progressing any further that it is now.

Empty, Unkempt Property On Marine Drive Between 30th & 31st: Just as described with no hint of any future improvement or immediate improvement.

31st & Marine Drive: More Commonly called "The Wolf House" and a onetime beautiful home left to die simply because of lack of any ind of money to bring it back as much as the owner would love to. There has been some recent work by, I would guess, Community Action, a Non-Profit assistance group that has, through grants, upgrade the entries for safer entry and exit. The owner of the property immediately behind has been restoring his own home but, Money to finish is that obstacle there.

Hauke Landslide Property: sits there,after massive mitigation of a careless and destructive mistake on somebody's part of which we will likely never, just growing rocks and Alders with no hint of any kind of use or improvement whatsoever other than a convenient place to post temporary, uncontrolled signs for whatever group that may have some event going on at the moment.

33rd and Franklin: At the gateway into the Uppertown-Adair neighborhood

that is, from all appearances, a terribly mismanaged and neglected rental property with a growing reputation of being a place of nefarious activity.

So, who and how do we punish and reward these properties and under what criteria?

NSNG/Bradwood Landing LNG's Salmon Enhancement Intiative: Debunking Views From The Other Side Of The Story

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