Good evening and welcome to the local news today is Tuesday October 31st and I'm Isabella Vander Heyden reporting pre-K. Midi in today's news Garberville kids kick off Pauline with a scream epic celebrates 40 years the library branch manager for tires California gas tax increases Wednesday and ballot initiatives could roll back recent criminal justice initiatives stay tuned news on those stories and more coming right up. Beginning with local festivities this Tuesday afternoon community members decked out in their spookiest costumes gathered at the town square in Garberville for the annual scream and costume contests Here's a clip of some of the screaming competitors when I hand you the microphone you get one scream. Those were just some of our best local screamers participating in the annual Halloween scream contest at the Garberville town square happy. And humbled at pick the Environmental Protection Information Center will celebrate 40 years of force protection this Friday at the community center in Broadway. Epic was founded in 1977 by a group of Southern neighbors seeking to end aerial spraying of herbicides by the timber industry the group was successful and in the 40 years since at the has expanded their work to protect old growth forests and Watershed throughout the north coast. For more information on Friday celebration we spoke with epics executive director Tom Wheeler So this is a combination of our usual celebration or into a fund raising dinner and and it's also a little bit different it's our 40th So we're going have a birthday cake and we're going to be there to celebrate Wheeler gave us a little more background on how epic came to be so we started off as a volunteer group it was a couple people you know somewhat ragtag and they were driven by their convictions and it grew from that core volunteer group with people like Richard Gaynor and Robert Sutherland a cave man who walks in the woods a group from them and to a professional organization we made the leap in the 1980 s. And started to actually paid to volunteer and they became staff and so we were able to take on more work because instead of just in the free time or on the weekends now we had a staff office that was open that was working on issues so epic was critical in the timber wars in our area we often worked hand in hand with some of the forest defenders the earth 1st activist so the Pacific Lumber Company would propose a timber harvest in some old growth and the forest defenders would get out there and did get up in the trees and they'd be seen in the trees and they would shut down logging long enough for Epic to get into court and to file the lawsuit and to get that logging stopped so we work hand in hand throughout all this and this ultimately culminated in the headwaters deal that ended up protecting a lot of the old growth that we had been fighting over Wheeler says epic remains committed to protecting old growth forests but now the fight has turned to post fire logging which is a really destructive practice and it's turning to things like how can we manage our forest so that they can be good carbon things how they can sequester and store the most carbon possible so that's what we're working on on private side and then in the 1900 we also added a public lands program. So we watch over for national forests Mendocino National Forest 6 Rivers National Forest climate National Forest in just a trendy National Forest in total we watch something like $5200000.00 acres of land and so we've we've commented on every project every major timber sale on these forests for the last 15 years so we are the watchdog organization that is making sure that our public lands are well managed really says at bank has also expanded its endangered species work we're in court now twice against the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service so in them over their failure to list the humble Martin of which there are less than $100.00 left in California and the Pacific Fisher We are pushing to increase protections for the Northern spotted owl we are in court defending the grey wolf against attacks from the California Cattlemen's Association so epic is still at the vanguard at the point of the spear and we're fighting for the protection of our private and public lands here on the north coast this year's fall celebration will honor to work of late activist Judy Berry Wheeler says Berry will be honored with the stumper violence Lifetime Achievement Award which will be presented to her daughters during Friday's event Judy Berry came out of the labor movement that was her kind of original roots so she had some traditional labor organizing techniques which she employed and she also brought a sense of the importance of of labor and of working people and of making this a broader environmental movement instead of just you know your typical in Viro movement she wanted to to recognize that the mill workers the log or reason that were being affected by over harvesting of timber their interest would also be recognized so she helped to really broadened environmental movement she also instilled it with some concept that she learned about it through the civil rights era she helped plan Redwood summer Redwood summer was a nod to the civil rights Freedom Summer. Where people used nonviolent techniques they would go down into the south in Freedom Summer and register black voters to vote and through their nonviolence through their activities they could show the moral clarity of their position and so she wanted to bring that up to the north coast to the redwoods to the fight over the last ancient redwood trees still standing so she really imposed is this sense of morality and that we need to be better than the people that we are fighting against in our movement we also asked Wheeler what ethics next 40 years will look like I hope the next 40 years or are as good as the last 40 years epic has really made waves if I were to look into a crystal ball I think that the big issue that we're going to face is climate change and California's forests offer perhaps not a solution to climate change but our best way to mitigate the effects of climate change if we're well managed are for it's could sequester a lot of greenhouse gases a lot of carbon dioxide it's kind of a natural process when trees grow they suck it in and they stored in their woody biomass but if they're poorly managed that our forests may not sequester that much carbon or even worse if they're poorly managed they can actually become carbon sources themselves so looking forward to the next 40 years my guess is that a lot of the battles are going to be fought along the lines of How can we stop climate change how can we mitigate the effects of climate change you just heard from Tom Wheeler executive director of epic The Environmental Protection information center which will celebrate 40 years of force protection as a material community center in Broadway this Friday the event kicks off at 6 pm and will continue till midnight tickets can be found at Red liquors wild berries and wild california dot org. On Wednesday friends of the Garberville library will gather in celebration of John Christiansen who is retiring after 16 years Christiansen's retirement party will run from 3 to 7 pm at the Garberville library orange brings you more the friends of the Garberville library are a group of dedicated volunteers that help maintain our local library they are currently looking for new friends to join with Davidson the president of the group explained the friends of the Garberville library are a volunteer support group that provide volunteers and raise funds to support the activities and the collections at our at our branch library where one of a number of friends groups there's the friends of the redwood libraries which is an umbrella organization and McKinley bill and Fortuna and other other towns all have their own friends organizations here at Garberville we raise money for book acquisitions for subscriptions and and for the public access wife I will also provide volunteers We've had volunteers do reading to children and we're actually in need of another volunteer if somebody wants to come and read books if you're a library patron we really encourage you to become a friend a member of the friends of the government library it can be as low as $5.00 for an individual membership or you can offer as much for a lifetime membership if you please but more than the money the fact that you have joined to be counted is really important being a member of the friends we can point to how many patrons we have regularly and how many of them are active donors and volunteers which means a lot when the time comes for advocating perhaps for funding or for repairs or equipment to show how popular and how important the Garberville branch of the library is Johnny Christiansen Garberville is library branch manager has always welcomed patrons with a smile and a joke and after 16 years of dedicated service he will be retiring on November 1st . I've been a branch manager for the printer for 616 years now back revenues that I had were to the Ohio library devoted to inter-county before coming here so basically it's been 16 solid years here and it's been a wonderful opportunity and a garden a wide area like libraries across the country are facing continual using of resources and we are really helpful we have a shortage of bathrooms restrooms here and Carville we maintain a clean sanitary of after right here it's a carver library and it's important part of what is available off of a clean well lit a safe place to go is becoming extremely rare but very privileged to be a part of Garber of show. Effort to see that libraries so the purpose that they're capable of and. That we bring to our patrons John Christian faith is very grateful to all who have made the governor the library a successful place if I could just think a few people that have helped so much along the way the coming to mine in addition to the lives and in the current friends is Nancy and Gerry Wilson who did so much for so many years here and of course the Garberville Rotary Club has been donating books regularly over that same period of time and there's still a funnels office so our we share a parking lot and I have felt that she had her back many times when things would come up and appreciate that support very much it's it's been a long road of the new show. But a good road you know man is an island and you know why various going to last long with all of its friends on Wednesday November 1st from 3 to 7 pm the friends of the guy with the library invite you to celebrate John Christianson 16 years as Branch Manager by eating cake and telling jokes John Christianson. Can be succeeded but he can never be replaced. And. We will miss him we will miss his kindness and we will miss his humor and those who have known and loved John over his many years of service here are invited on Wednesday afternoon November 1st which is his last day to come and join us and say goodbye we're going to have cake and coffee and conversation going so c'mon and bring a joke John Christianson shares one of his favorite jokes sure if ever joke did you hear about him about the 2 radio dishes married to wedding was Ok by the reception for us Ok I had asked Mr Christianson to tell me the joke about the pizza but he had assured me it was too cheesy This is large reporting for came a news. The 1st installment of Humboldt county property taxes is due on Wednesday November 1st and must be paid by December 11th that's according to the county of humbled The county says payments made after December 11th will result in a 10 percent penalty the 2nd installment of property taxes is due on Feb 1st and must be paid by April 10th 20 teen payments received after that date will receive a 10 percent penalty and a $20.00 fee the county of humble says quote We urge anyone having questions regarding payment to 1st look at your tax bill front and back and check out the website humble gov dot org slash tax as almost all answers can be found in one of these 2 places if you don't find your insert then call us the assessor or the auditor at 707-441-3020 quote The county says online payments can be made at the. Tax or at the tax collectors office but they will be busy through December so mailing it in might be easier in Mendocino County Assessor in clerk recorder Susan Ryan Jack sent out a statement announcing an adjustment to Mendocino as property tax payments quote California's property tax laws provide a mechanism for the assessor to adjust assessed values to recognize destruction caused by a calamity or misfortune which damages real or personal property to qualify for a calamity adjustment the property must have suffered more than $10000.00 worth of damage and the owner must file a claim with the assessor within 12 months of the date of the calamity and quote so property owners who suffered qualifying damage during the red wood fire can also apply to delay payment of the December 10th 1st installment of their $21718.00 property tax bill questions can be directed to Mendocino county's assessor at 707-234-6826. Cal Fire in Mendocino County officials will provide an update on stabilization efforts in Redwood Valley in a community meeting at the Eagle peak middle school cafeteria at 8601 west road on Wednesday evening from 6 to 7 30 pm the county of Mendocino says quote The meeting will have subject matter experts from the governor's office of emergency services the Army Corps of Engineers the Federal Emergency Management Agency Cal Fire Mendocino County Environmental Health Division and Mendocino County Planning in building services presentations will be targeted responding to the most frequently asked questions around the debris removal process the right of entry agreement erosion control and recovery process for properties affected by the fire and quote If you can't make it to the meeting you can view a live stream on the Mendocino County Facebook page and You Tube channel residents can also submit questions in advance as c.e.o. At Mendocino County dot org Kimock news will bring you more information on that meeting later this week. Turning to state news you might want to fill up your gas tank before California's tax hike goes into effect on Wednesday back in April Governor Jerry Brown approved a Senate bill one the road repair and Accountability Act of 2017 as b. One was designed to increase the gas tax by $0.12 per gallon and the diesel fuel tax by $0.20 per gallon on November 1st 2017 the transportation improvement fee will take effect on January 1st 2018 that means California residents will pay a new annual transportation improvement fee that is based on the market value of their vehicle that means drivers will pay $25.00 for vehicles with a market value of 024999 dollars 50 dollars per year for vehicles with a market value of 522-4999 dollars 100 dollars per year for vehicles with a market value of 25234999 dollars 150 dollars per year for vehicles with a market value of 35259999 dollars and $200.00 per year for vehicles with a market value of $60000.00 or higher that's according to the text of the bill the 0 emission vehicle registration fee will go into effect in July of 2020 the California Senate Appropriations Committee says s.b. One is expected to generate an estimated $52400000000.00 between 20172027 according to the text of the bill quote This bill would annually set aside $200000000.00 of the funds available for the program to fund road maintenance and rehabilitation purposes in counties that have sought and received voter approval of taxes or that have imposed fees including uniform developer fees as defined which taxes or fees are dedicated solely to transportation improvements these funds would be continuously appropriated for allocation. Pursuant to Guy pines to be developed by the California Transportation Commission in consultation with local agencies and quote Governor Brown hit the road back in April to rally support for the bell Here's a clip of the governor speaking in bed for side on April 4th 2017 as pretty former speakers have said Every year we delay. Expense goes up just like you don't fix the roof put yourselves the furniture is ruined the floor goes below the furnace everything the pain. In surgery California roads are going to do it so we've got to fix them and this bill by the way is that something was cooked up a month ago this is the product of years of talk of the period of compromise it's not going to get in better if we don't get this road bill this year I'm very concerned that we will never get to tell you why because it's not going to get any cheaper every year it gets more expensive so you know it's a single for another 5 years we're going to talk about $100000000000.00 and that becomes a hole that is very hard to climb out of Governor Brown went on to say everyone agrees Republicans Democrats are going to scream at us oh we have to spend the money yet you have to spend money on pretty labor all that stuff takes money and this bill provides that I think all of you when you realize what you're paying you know it wrecked your car on the roads and what you can say but exposure it's a hell of a good deal now is the time it's like Ok later down the road so please tell your friends let the world go the California does pay the price of civilization or not go down you know we're not going to erase what you show the country and Washington Republicans and Democrats get together that's what it's all about that was Governor Jerry Brown rallying support for s.b. One back in April in retrospect thanks to the desert sun for showing the quit opponents of s.b. One recently created the California repealed gas tax and feel. Increased Bill initiative which could appear on the California ballot on Nov 6th 2018 the petition summary says the initiative would quote eliminate recently enacted state and local transportation funding for repair and maintenance of streets highways bridges safety projects and public transportation by repealing portions of the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel sales and excise taxes on diesel fuel vehicle registration fees and the $100.00 emission vehicle seen and quote Republican state assembly member Travis Allen filed the initiative he says quote Jerry Brown's decision to push through the largest gas tax increase in California's history without the approval of voters demonstrated a complete disregard for ordinary Californians this ballot initiative will correct Brown's failure and allow the people of California to decide for themselves if they want to raise their taxes and quote whether or not the repeal will make it to the $2800.00 ballot remains to be seen at any rate the gas tax hike will go into effect this Wednesday November 1st you can find more information on Senate Bill one the road repair and Accountability Act of 2017 through the California legislature at ledge info dot legislature dot ca dot gov. Tough on crime law enforcement in crime victims' organizations have introduced a ballot initiative to rollback changes made to criminal justice laws by recent measures to lower the prison population in California's overcrowded prisons they want to expand the list of violent crimes that would be ineligible for early release under Proposition $57.00 and to increase d.n.a. Testing and other changes to Proposition $47.00 Christopher Martinez reports police sheriffs and crime victims' groups are backing a ballot initiative to roll back some of the changes made by recent ballot initiatives another loss on criminal justice reform the initiative backers say they want changes that will in their view protect communities and help law enforcement Democratica some Remember Jim Cooper of Elk Grove joint advocates at the state capitol news conference he says he's been frustrated by failed attempts to revise the recent changes in criminal justice last I didn't is number one I don't like it at all trying to get through here I've been retired 3 years and I had the entire committee. There read a vote in the chair you want to hear so that's why we're here so that my colleagues are all it not all of this the proposed ballot initiative would have had 50 new crimes to the states list of violent crimes making them ineligible for early release under last year's Proposition $57.00 The proposal would also reinstate d.n.a. Collection for 7 drug and petty theft crimes that were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 Marc Klass is president of the group class victims he's a crime victims' advocate and father of child murder victim Polly Klaas victims and innocent people in the state of California are being kneecapped on a regular basis and as a result we're seeing crime rise again and it feels like all the work that we did back in the now. Now being on done by people who apparently are way more concerned with the rights of criminals then with the safety of innocent persons supporters of the initiative say it would protect crime victims and communities they play loose in law changes for what they see as skyrocketing crime rates but a new report by the Center on juvenile and criminal justice says crimes in particular property crimes have plummeted since the recent wave of criminal justice reform last like Prop 27 Well Matthew says with the group Californians for safety and justice you know we really need to be thoughtful about successfully implementing the successful reforms that have been put into place to date we don't need to be going backwards in California Williams says criminal justice reforms have served California well reducing the number of people locked up in prison and saving the state money as well as focusing resources on crime prevention and I think we're on the right track but for the 1st time prioritizing investments that actually address the drivers of crime like mental illness drug and alcohol addiction so I think we're on the right track we're doing the right things and instead of rolling back criminal justice reform what we need to do is really double down on and continue this trajectory and I'm confident that most of Californians really believe that that they you know continue to believe that we spend too much money on our broken prison system and that we don't prioritize enough investment in community based crime prevention programs like drug and alcohol treatment that actually again address the drivers of crime if the proposed ballot initiative gathers enough signatures it could go before voters in the November 28th Tina election reporting from the state capital I'm Christopher Martinez. 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I'm Monica Lopez and this is making contact this week we present part 2 of sacrifice zones in which the fossil fuel industry makes its 1st move on a major population center in the northwest. It's an accident of geography that the lowest path from the middle North America to Asian markets happens speaking of the river gorge happens to be lined with people who want something better wind with tribal fisherman. It's a narrow passage trying to move through and we're going to do everything we can to make sure it stays close. You're listening to sacrifice about the pressures to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export. And the 2nd half of the program the fossil fuel industry makes its 1st move on a major population center in the northwest. There has been some interest in putting ability to move crude oil from the Mid-Continent Oil fields to the West Coast refineries at the Russell is the communications manager for the Port of Vancouver USA across the Columbia River from Portland late in 2012 we put out a request for statements of interest from companies that might be interested in bringing a transplant facility here to the port we received about 4 or 5 responses to that request and of those responses to 0 savage joint ventures stood out one of the great things about this area is it's because it's people report to the midpoint of the United States and in particular the block a little field Jerrod Lera b. Is the general manager for Vancouver energy a joint venture of to several oil and savage companies so it's really the fastest way in the cheapest way the most economical way and the safest way to get crude oil on rel to a vessel and then delivered by a vessel 'd to those West Coast refineries the port of a covers very large and ships huge volumes of wheat and other commodities than series with Columbia River Keeper the idea of it becoming the largest oil terminal in North America doesn't seem to be a fit for that part of the Columbia River we don't judge the commodities that we move and we look at is there a market for this can it be done safely does it fit with our values we're going to move a commodity if it can be done safely it can be done in environmentally responsible manner and that reflects on whether you're moving when energy or a crude oil report has been that industrial driver of economic growth industry here in the region there's no residential areas close by here it's all heavy industry out here in the port in the port district so this fits right in with what the port was designed to do we live a half a mile from the proposed terminal site Wendy Garcia is a resident of the food Valley neighborhood which borders in the port of Vancouver and aboard officer for the fruit Valley neighborhood association we have always had a very positive relationship with supportive in cover when tenants come in and we meet them at our meetings we get to know what they're going to bring and. To the neighborhood we ask to Soren Savage and the n.s.f. To come in and speak to us about everything and be open to neighbor concerns we set up to meeting times for them to come in and they came to the 1st meeting and did not show up for the 2nd meeting because they were asked hard hitting questions at the 1st meeting the board actually approved the lease and July of 2013 at the wrestle with Puerto Vancouver USA and after that we had additional public comment at several meetings at the public's request one of the 1st groups to oppose the oil terminal was local 4 of the international launcher and Warehouse Union Jerry Smith is the current president and our 1st concerns were an oil spill on the river the amount of volume that would be going through this pipe to load and it will take one spill would shut down the river and the 2nd concern was it's taking up land that we've always traditionally used for when the power storage and that's like probably the most labor intensive work that we do at the Port of Aden Hoover it provides a ton of jobs and if you can put all terminal where we store when the projects is when your projects comes out to oil in North America we've increased our production of crude oil but we're 3000000 barrels a day at the same time that that's happened the north will prove production has dropped significantly and we've been filling that gap in the meantime with foreign imports and this really allows us to bring the production that we do have in North America to the west coast oil is not going to be here in the next 50 years like it is now when Mills are so we have something that's creating a lot of jobs for us now and has the potential to create a lot of jobs in the future to sort on the part is not looking into the future all that much to look into what's going to benefit them right now and further creating dependence upon something that we don't need while the board was considering public comments and concerns and whether to approve a lease like this we had a tragic incident up in Loch Modan peak and come back. With the massive inferno since. Flames into the night sky fueled by crude oil from ruptured tank cars the runaway unmanned 73 car train derailed about 1 am sparking a fire and explosions that shattered the quiet of this Lake Chelan black McGann to 135 miles north of the main border. Now with the 1st time that anybody had really given a lot of thought to the movement of crude oil and it has been moving by train for decades along with other products like diesel one jet fuel and fertilizer are just as potentially dangerous one port of Vancouver commissioner said you know well oil doesn't explode well but it very spectacularly and tragically exploded in the middle of this little Canadian town and killed of these people and despite that they rushed ahead and made a decision to enter into this lease agreement no one can ensure that accident will never happen that that unfortunately is just a reality of the time that we live in and moving any commodity that has the potential to endanger our neighbors there we're going to be watching that very carefully we're going to do everything that we can to make sure that a community all we've ever asked is to be transparent and upfront with us to tell us upfront what the expectations are be realistic and honest with us about the things that could potentially happen and tell us how you're going to address that we did have folks that were coming in expressing concerns and many of them are the same concerns that we have that it can be done safely that it can be done in an environmentally sensitive manner and we live in this community too we care a great deal about it and we can't do business here without having a safe and environmentally sound record and environmentally sound projects and Michelle either does or a project would be bringing in crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota which is very volatile has high levels of dissolved gases like propane ethane butane and other volatile organic compounds that make it both dangerous in terms of its fine ability and exploit city but also dangerous in terms of the toxic fumes that are released if it spills if we're designing a world class facility was. At the our picnic and engineering built into the facility our programs are designed 1st with prevention is the 1st and foremost mitigation next and the response is the final talk to every job we do at the port there's going to be workers in the blast zone Jerry Smith International lawn chair and Warehouse Union and we also would be doing work inside of the loop track where this terminals proposed and there's one way and there's one way out and if there was any kind of an explosion there's no way anybody's going in or out of there without actually offered training as we know the railroads have to 1st responders here locally that offer is still open and we hope to complete them they'll be able to take advantage of the training that we are offering myself another member went and met with the local firefighters in Vancouver they say they can't put it out all they can do is cordon off an area you know a half mile away or more and prevent people from going out because they definitely are going to go in I want to dispel a couple of the statements that were made this morning during this Soros damage presentation here is not to be in a couple of accidents involving oil by rail there's been 7 major accidents across the United States across Canada since 20131 of them in hind all in North Dakota resulted in multiple fireballs explosions. It is not hyperbole to say that these are rolling on the other why they told us this morning is that they operate with transparency were they operating with transparency when they signed the contract without public comment in public in what No they were not we've taken a lot of public comment over the last 3 years or so and it's been enlightening with incorporated a lot of that into what we're looking at to help ensure that the kernel can be operated safely in environmentally responsible manner as possible look to see people turn out and keep turning out it isn't easy or convenient to keep showing up with the same message of no move oil terminal time after time we do some of the year is vital if you are locally but also with global. What do we have on ourselves with a clean home the sustainable sitting position where we dispose or will we be victims of outside corporate interests methods are informed by unconscious look reheated blatant disregard for scientific facts of the Found a lack of respect for life and an absence of decency I've never seen this many groups against a project to have the Longshore Union have still headers the tribes environmental groups business owners all these nurses and doctors and psychologists we need listen to every piece of feedback that we receive and certainly our board of commissioners our elected board is listening as well there's over 13 neighborhood associations a don't want this there's over 100 local businesses there's doesn't seem to be anybody that wants this except for the people that are going to profit off of the people taken out of the ground the people moving it the people shipping it nobody else wants it thank you for the opportunity to voice my support of the day who are injured by the explosion of the least by these my old friends and allies for the energy services we work at all than just our own risk. What I would describe it was a little cause here's why West Coast. Of Port operates in the shadows nobody really pays attention to a port commissioners are typically down ballot races without really any public oversight and all the signs at least for this enormous oil terminal By contrast the city council Vancouver when they actually looked at the proposal listen to their citizens they were unanimously opposed to it and so what's happened even Cooper what's happening Now in other places is that the fossil fuel infrastructure fight is spilling over into local politics the community spoke pretty loud when they elected a new port commission American Brant who was running basically you know opposing the oil terminal and then they had another candidate who was in favor of it where it won by a lot. Even with Eric Le Grand on the ventouse report commissioned he was still out voted $2.00 to $1.00 and every time the commission is had not for to nitty to terminate their lease agreement which is 0 savage they voted instead to extend the lease. I can't wrap my mind around the idea that I could be sitting in my living room right here right now with you talking to me in a fat terminal or here and anything happened we could be gone in a heartbeat that's what it feels like they're telling us every single time I go to speak or I testify before them that it's Ok it's a small risk did is been 6 hours now since it all trading rails in the Columbia River Gorge but just in the last hour the fire has intensified and so has the thick black smoke could build away from those flaming tanker cars at 1220 on Friday afternoon on June 3rd I was sitting in a public hearing about developing rules for how the railroads have to report and prepare for the real menace and all spills into the Columbia River I phone started buzzing and I was getting text messages from calling the Riverkeeper staff who are saying that it will train derailed and Mosher. And was on fire and my stomach just sank I looked around the room and I just sort of got up and said I don't know if you know this but then all turns around and is on fire and Mosher I kind of have to go I was actually in Asheville North Carolina and I got a text while driving there's a fire and oil train derailed I mean Burns is the mayor of Mosier Oregon a small town in the Columbia River Gorge 69 miles east of Portland I was on the phone with ferries people I started getting calls from people saying what's going on I closed my eyes and I was thinking oh my God this is happening now a problem we call in the river intertribal Fish Commission and we have people up there fishing. This is the end but Vanden Heuvel is our executive director for Columbia River Keeper you know as soon as you got news of this list to heart went out to Mosher to take a look at this I just heard that it happened so I drove over there and the emergency response resident there yet Michael work and I live got out the exit and looked and saw the burning oil train on that ramp I felt for the very 1st time the fear associated with the hazard of oil trains and I didn't stop I wanted to take the pictures for the web site I wanted to do and I got right back on the highway and headed east because it was not. The 1st thing happening was getting people away from the potential blast zone the school was evacuated in about 17 minutes the subdivision that's nearest to the incident site was evacuated and then the rest of town very quickly was put on level 2 evacuation which was pack up your car and be ready to hit the road it was really scary for several hours where the fire seemed to be growing didn't seem like there was a whole lot the 1st responders could do other than get people away from it when the train derailed it knocked out a manhole yanked it out of the ground basically and in some wild strange blessing most of the oil that spilled whent through this manhole in. And into our sewage treatment plant like a big swimming pool so it wasn't great news for our sewage treatment plant but it contained the oil in about the greatest place that you could contain oil possible the biggest luck was that it was not a windy day windsurfing capital of the world people come there from all over the world to experience the wind this constantly blowing in the Clinton River Gorge the idea of this happening on a relatively calm day is pretty remarkable there was almost still so this big plume of nasty black smoke was going pretty much vertical it did cause some wildfire that was close to the tracks that our local fire department was able to keep contained if this had happened one day before we had a 30 mile an hour wind blowing straight into Mosher off the river we would have lost the whole town and we would have lost a good chunk of the Gorge around it all of the communities along these tracks they know it could have been them that train was down for Portland Vancouver and ultimately Tacoma Washington so that train was going passing through the pearl in metro area during afternoon rush hour on a Friday so it could have derailed anywhere this wasn't an accident it was predictable that this was going to happen it was just a matter of when and where and for us it's very strange that they picked us our motto of our town is small enough to make a difference and I think we're going to have to live up to that motto and be a microphone for this issue on a larger scale. Or to Vancouver a lot of us here angry today and I'm one of them I'm angry because this isn't our river to damage or endangered our entire region depends on this river for water jobs recreation and just plain something nice to look at No one has the right to spoil no one we demand a rapid response and a complete The roughly no. Longer for the train tips over long before the fire starts we need our legislators to give this issue an actual hard. Serious look at it requires or these disasters are going to continue to happen again and again time for us to stand up and say this is our river. Less than 24 hours after their realm it we probably had a $150.00 or so people marching through Hood River. I worked for 4 tribes Yakama human toll one spring to Deptford we have fishing rights right now here we have treaties with the United States to protect our fishing rights yet these trains could up in all of them if we stick together we could stop the cold we can stop the fossil fuel train we can stick together we can do it but they don't always right. Everyone is feeling the same thing and asking the question of themselves now what can I do so that no other community experiences this at the very least people will be protesting any future oil train shipments and I would not be surprised one beyond that to people trying to find creative ways to stop you know all shipments from happening. In a minivan can't manage their own oil. If you. Go the rest of the criminals for the 2nd degree. What happened was an accident it was a statistically foreseeable event that will happen again and it will happen much more frequently if the Vancouver project goes forward any reasonable decision maker at this point would not approve a project like this. In September 24th teen the fossil fuel site came to Portland when the Calgary based Pembina pipeline company made a deal with the Port of Portland to build a propane export terminal in the morning. With Pemba Portland joined a list of almost every port on the Columbia in considering a fossil fuel project Jasmine Zimmer Stucky is a senior organizer with Columbia River Keeper partners have always played a role in helping these other communities and when Pembina came along it was a wake up call that Portlanders role is not just to help other communities it was to organize themselves the 1st thing that got people's attention was that the tension for something to blow up to catch fire and then the more people dug into it the more they realized that this was just a gargantuan Carbon Project that's what mobilized thousands of activists to start packing city council hearings and going to recreate the decision makers and demanding that they not turn Portland into huge fossil fuel hub our mail was running a 1000 to one against the Pembina proposal Charlie him as mayor of Portland from 2012 to 2016 I'm not sure who you get a 1000 to one agreement on which cardinal direction the sun rises each morning they were very very close to getting all the approvals they needed and really the entire issue hinged on a small connecting pipeline that would have connected the tanks to the ships that needed to go through an environmental zone because piping propane through the environmental conservation zone along the clubby river was precipitated Pembina actually needed an amendment from the city council in order to make their project work they got through the planning and sustainability commission by the time they got the city council the worm it turned thanks to enormous public pressure Portland has a climate action plan that was very proud of and got in the Vatican to talk with people about what Portland was doing in the meantime back in Portland people are packing sustainability Commission hearings and calling on fossil fuel Charlie to walk the walk and say no to this big fossil fuel project and he came back from meeting with the pope and not that long after I announced that he had changed his mind on this project the more I looked at it and certainly the more the community looked at it you know we all reach the conclusion that this is really cons. Values if it weren't for that pipe that connected the tanks to the ships and the fact that across to rezone they didn't allow pipes this whole project might have been built we may not have problems fossil fuel resolution as a result. Inspired by the climate activists who stop the Pembina terminal their hands co-sponsor presently Sion that uses Portland zoning imagine 30 to ban any future fossil fuel export projects in the city. One of things we did last year was pass the resolution that said this is city policy we're not going to export fossil fuels anymore from Port on than we do now. You're ever present in the Audubon Society for a living there are 60000 members in the world and that your region so people ask what kind of message to send to the local business community actually sends a clear and important message it doesn't lead to the world is not good you think you know where you the very industries he grabbed your obsolescence really what business is important or safe and sustainable then we are working the story about the health of our communities in the wealth of distant shareholders as the Portland City Council was about to approve the final ordinance spending future book fossil fuel storage facilities within the city the political winds from Washington d.c. Change course was right no historic moment we can now project the winner of the presidential race to that project Donald Trump wins the presidency the business. When I found out that Donald Trump is the president elect's it was really jarring in the things I thought about 1st were not about climate I thought about the people who are really the most at risk people of color who watched a president run an openly racist policies and when these are people who are part of our movement we have immigrant rights activists who have been leading voices in Vancouver because the neighborhood that would be the most impacted by the oil terminal has a large Latino immigrant population and these people are going to be facing a trump administration that is stated they want to deploy. Work and undocumented American and we needed to get as far as we could with as many of these fossil fuel issues as we can while also putting a lot more effort into reaching out to the other struggles that maybe are facing much worse repercussions at least initially from this thank you all for being here today we are so this is a good place and it is so good to see you all so thank you for being part of the legitimate exercise device proceeds and May That always be true in our city and elsewhere as we all experience with the Pembina proposal last year zoning code actually allows us fossil fuel terminals without any limit on the size of these terminals we of course passed a resolution saying we're going in a different direction and today is the proposal to put that into the city law into our code and we didn't know if we would be able to get them to amend this policy to make sure it didn't have big loopholes because the version that came originally his city council had some problems but they had a 300 people in the room they had incredibly well spoken high school students wanted to sell them on a girlfriend and we all are some way from high school we know that we have to start building you part of what the structure now or if we were to have any hope of remaining within reasonable emission limits and preventing climate chaos fossil fuel companies continue to operate on challenge by the government and intend to extract 5 times as much carbon as we get it we need a life change cannot wait until our generation begins run for public office and a writer on legislation the change has to start with you if we don't begin right now of the time we're old enough to hold public office it will already be too late my name is Willie Mays and finally the I'm back and we're just can't turn back my last year we have our fellows Brandon came here to testify against any teacher awful feeling structure development in the Portland area council you not honestly Apprentice and knowledge and common sense. That now we do. With these proposed rules new infrastructure with under 2000000 gallons of fuel would be if that. That it's been allowed. To be admitted into practice which is harmful to everyone everywhere and there is no way we can ignore that right now find has a chance to see that. Terminal and are pirates it's interesting just to make time a great I. Think you. Have a. A camera imagine a more of a contrast between the disheartening insanity of this week and the hope for leadership that received young people in this community let's hear a. And then can or morning came up and they were sort of combative for no reason with the city council that appeared ready to grant them a big compromise definitely And there's and I feel like reading of been invited to a barbecue and we're on the menu we're opposed to possibly terminal zoning amendments my company can do more and rebuild the tank in Linden we increase the capacity to 30 percent a batch when it talked to justify the investment. We feel that Portland is not an island and that in spending being visionary and exemplary that these land use restrictions and zoning changes are actually shortsighted and very self-centered to the time that the time and increase of trying to change. Is correct it's going to not cost of change and it's going to lead to this investment and it's going to lead to these facilities being stranded and if that's what your intention is you will achieve that goal otherwise you know we put you put that hole as an incentive if it's not then I think we should have a discussion about the need to not. This I believe is the 1st in. The West Coast of the United States and I spent the last couple of days and my colleagues the mayors of these other cities and their citizens want this kind of action too so we've given them a template for how once again an idea can get started in one community and quickly replicated in the other so I know these are dangerous and scary times I said earlier you might wonder is it still true that we work towards a better day and towards a just and climate just world I do believe that that's true what you've just proven is that here in this place we can start something that will change the world thank you very. Well remember as we go into this next 4 years of a trumpet ministration we didn't need Washington d.c. To help us these local fights these local decision makers are where we can stop big projects and make big change we're at this really really critical juncture where we need local and state leaders to do everything they can to stop these projects because we know that Trump and a very fossil fuel friendly Congress and many of whom deny climate change even exists will be looking for ways to roll back those authorities the people that we're working with are very motivated maybe even more motivated now that we've seen that it really isn't a matter of if there will be an oil disaster it's happened we need to get people's attention and people to civil disobedience to get the attention that this is just fine by me that's how change really happens that's how society changes but people have had enough. Now and. Respect of my sentences written narrated and produced by Parker Bernstein original music Mr Percy performed by proper Bernstein flooding law. Frits special thanks to Dan to place care on Peter Segal Steve early. Listen Marsland Jerry Mayer Jan 2nd and. This program is funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council . That wraps up the final installment of sacrifice so thanks to producer Barbara Bernstein for her work on this documentary to find out more about the people and organizations featured in today's program check out Radio Project dot org That's also where you can download a copy of the show or get the making contact podcast. I'm Monica Lopez thanks for listening to making contact. With. People with different values and believes look at evidence and come to drastically different conclusions to find out joined by Frederick and Julia Minton. Thinking clearly Thursday November 2nd from 78 pm as they discuss the topic of motivated reasoning with guest Professor Peter Ditto who heads up the hot Cognition Lab at u.c. Irvine Professor good o. 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