The Oregonian: Oregon LNG(Warrenton) Now Wants To Import LNG To Pipe It To Coos Bay LNG To Profiteer By Export?

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 11:10 PM
By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian The OregonianThe Oregonian/fileOregon LNG Chief Executive Officer Peter Hansen surveys the site of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal at Warrenton. Oregon LNG is competing with Bradwood Landing to build a LNG terminal near Astoria.Two years ago, energy companies trying to build terminals to import liquefied natural gas to Oregon laughed at the notion of using their projects instead to export burgeoning supplies of U.S. and Canadian gas to lucrative markets in Asia. The idea, LNG backers said, was a conspiracy theory concocted by environmentalists and landowners who didn't want pipelines laid across public and private lands. ......

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Weathering The Wal-Mart Storm

Weathering Wal-Mart: Local merchants find ways to compete with retail giant

By Carl Manning - Associated Press - In Deseret News
Published: Friday, Aug. 1, 2003 9:03 a.m. MDT

HIAWATHA, Kan. — Francis Duncan operates a farm and home store and Don Koontz runs the downtown hardware store. Like other local merchants, their biggest competitor is Wal-Mart.
"We don't try to compete with them; there's no way. We let them do their thing and we do ours," Duncan said. "If they get something we have, we just close it out."

Suggestions For Weathering The Storm

GRP: Do You Have A North Coast Business? Tell Us How You Plan To Compete With Wal-Mart.

Astoria Port Commission Slate Of Candidates: Who's It Going To Be For You?

*PORT OF ASTORIA

Commissioner - Position 1
Lawrence A. Pfund, P.O. Box 2084, Gearhart, OR 97138, (503) 738-9080 (h),
e-mail: lepfund@yahoo.com
John Hord, 969 19th St., Astoria, OR 97103, (503) 325-2253 (h),(503) 325-4411 (w), e-mail: jd3hord@earthlink.net

Commissioner - Position 2
Floyd E. Holcom, 1, 39th St., Astoria, OR 97103, (503) 325-4532 (h), (503) 325-2502 (w), (503) 325-7182 (f), e-mail: fholcom@ibisgroupllc.com
John Veenendaal, 91471 Hwy. 202, Astoria OR 97103, (503) 791-3903 (h),e-mail: yanqui1995@yahoo.com

Commissioner - Position 5
John B. Dunzer, 2964 Keepsake Dr., Seaside, OR 97138, (503) 738-6885 (h), e-mail: johndunzer@msn.com
Daniel (Dan) R. Hess, 35133 Hwy. 101 Bus., Astoria, OR 97103,(503) 325-6572 (h), (503) 338-8052 (w), (503) 325-8151 (f)
Karl S. Konka, P.O. Box 1317, Astoria, OR 97103, e-mail: kskonka@yahoo.com
Patrick McGee - (Write-In) (503)325-1844, kc2patrick@q.com

Press Release: Governor "K" Announces Oregon Way Advisory Group

The Governor believes that a key to Oregon’s success in implementing ARRA will be
establishing public-private partnerships to guide our efforts. To that end, the Governor created
the Oregon Way Advisory Group through executive order, made up of public and private sector
leaders with sustainability expertise, who will assist state agencies, local governments, and
others seeking competitive federal stimulus grants by identifying, developing, and prioritizing
proposals that meet the Oregon Way criteria; promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and
carbon reduction; and above all, create sustainable quality jobs for Oregonians. The Governor
will convene the first meeting of the group on March 25 and present the group with its first round
of project concepts for review.

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Spring Break Scam Targets Relatives Of Teens On Vacation

Spring Break scam targets relatives of teens on vacation
08:56 AM PDT on Monday, March 23, 2009

By KGW Staff

Con artists are targeting relatives of students who are vacationing for Spring Break.

The scam involves bogus stories about teens getting into car accidents or going to jail for disorderly conduct. Then, the scammer asks for money that’s supposedly to help the kids get out of trouble.


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K Line Quits Calls On Portland! Now Do We Want To Start Dialogue On A Lower Columbia "Super Port" And Transfer Fleet?

GRP: This is the pitch for the proposed Super Container Port at Coos Bay, Oregon

"Port officials are negotiating with APM Terminals North America, the U.S. arm of the world's largest shipping company, Dutch-based A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, to bring as many as 2 million shipping containers to Coos Bay's North Spit each year - five times as many as the Port of Portland
.
The project would provide as many as 2,500 permanent local jobs and pump almost $130 million in wages into the state economy. Average wages for those jobs are expected to be $52,000, according to a port-commissioned economic development study. The study also projected that indirect effects could mean 10,000 new jobs statewide, many of them in Eugene - the containers' first stop after being taken off ships and loaded onto trains."

'K' Line pulls up Portland anchor
by Richard Read - The Oregonian

Thursday March 05, 2009, 9:31 PM

Benjamin Brink/The OregonianA container handler moves one of "K" Line's 40-foot-long steel boxes Thursday at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6. The Japanese steamship company will stop calling on Portland in April, eliminating one of the port's three international marine cargo routes.
Portland will lose crucial container service to Japan in April when a Tokyo steamship company scraps a shipping route that spans the globe.

A local manager for "K" Line, which launched the 14-city pendulum-shaped route when times were better only seven months ago, confirmed Thursday that its vessels would stop calling on Portland. The port will lose one of its two Asian shipping links, retaining a European and South American service provided by another cargo carrier....Click For Full Story Below

K Line Sidesteps Port Of Portland

USA Today:2009's Top Small Business Trends

By Steve Strauss for USA TODAY

What a difference a year makes!

A year ago, my annual "Top 10 Trends in Small Business" was full of ideas spawned by big changes in technology and the Internet, with things like smart phones and SEO dominating the list.

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Scuttlebutt: G.O.B.s Try A Takeover Of Clatsop County Democrat Party?

A sitting, elected official, an LNG speculator employee with a small group of other local G.O.B.s makes an attempt to take over the Clatsop County Democratic Central Committee?

Could this actually contain any truth to it?

Anybody know any deatails they would wish to share with us?