Port's Coal Project Grinds to a Halt
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C M C M Y K Y K FAR WEST GOLF League opens spring season, B1 Get today’s paper & SAVE ! $10 Grocery Sav ings Award Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY,APRIL 2, 2013 theworldlink.com I 75¢ EPA fines two NB oil facilities I Tyree Oil, Carson Oil facility. Tyree also spilled nearly 300 gallons of diesel fuel at its must boost federal Eugene facility, some of which reached the Willamette River. containment measures Tyree will pay a $27,920 federal fine and a $2,080 state fine, and BY GAIL ELBER will complete $200,000 in second- The World ary containment system upgrades to its transload facility in Eugene. NORTH BEND — Two fuel Carson Oil Co. failed to install companies with North Bend facili- sufficient containment to prevent ties are paying fines and investing and contain fuel spills at its North in facility upgrades for violating Bend facility, operated under the federal oil spill prevention and name Carson-Davis Oil Co., the response rules. EPA said. In 2011, Carson spilled 29 U.S. Environmental Protection gallons of diesel fuel, some of Agency inspections of each facility which reached Coos Bay. Carson from 2007 and 2011 found viola- will pay a $29,843 federal fine and tions of federal spill prevention complete $35,000 in stormwater By Alysha Beck, The World rules and spill response require- control upgrades. Coos Bay Rail Link train cars sit by Coos Bay on Tuesday morning. As of Monday, the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay ments under the Clean Water Act, Ron Tyree of Tyree Oil said his is no longer in negotiations to build a coal export terminal on the North Spit, clouding the future of the recently upgraded the EPA announced Monday. company’s violations were the Coos Bay Rail Link line. The EPA said Tyree Oil Inc. failed result of different interpretations to install sufficient containment to of regulations. prevent and contain fuel spills at its “It wasn’t that we weren’t pay- North Bend and Eugene facilities ing attention, it was the way they and failed to develop a federal facili- Port’s coal project ty response plan at its North Bend SEE EPA | A10 grinds to a halt BY GAIL ELBER Environmentalists have cam- The World The other partners paigned to stop proposals for five such terminals in Washington COOS BAY — A project aiming Two other partners in Project and Oregon, arguing that burning to ship U.S. coal to Asia through Mainstay had already dropped out: coal in Asia contributes to global Coos Bay’s port is dead, after an Mitsui & Co., the U.S. subsidiary of a warming and that huge trains exclusive negotiating agreement Japanese trading company, and Korean filled with coal would be bad for between the port and a California Electric Power Corp., the potential buyer the health of communities along terminal operator expired Sun- of the coal. the route. They have argued that day. Mitsui would not say why it dropped demand for coal in Asia is drop- Metropolitan Stevedoring Co., out, but a Korean Power spokesman said ping as concerns rise over its also known as Metro Ports, was it was “not the right time” to pursue the contributions to climate change. the port’s last remaining partner project, mainly because the company “These companies, which are was not financially healthy enough for in what was known as Project not any stranger to coal, are doing Contributed Photo Mainstay, which originally that kind of investment. their own studies and seeing it as Korean Power was still looking for The 4-foot cross that marked the spot where Tyler Hoffman, 19, died in a crash was included Mitsui & Co. and the a bad bet,” Sierra Club spokes- broken off its cement base and tossed into the woods. Korean Electric Power Corp. The overseas sources of coal for power woman Krista Collard told The project’s demise had appeared plants owned by its subsidiaries. The Associated Press. likely since the port confirmed company also views overseas coal as a Last week, the governors of new source of revenue, which it could last month the two Asian compa- Oregon and Washington sent a supply to its own subsidiaries and other Vandals destroy nies had pulled out. joint letter to the White House companies. “The port is moving on to the calling for a study of the climate next phase,”said port CEO David change impacts of selling U.S. Koch in a news release. “We will short transit to Pacific trade coal to Asia. family’s memorial focus on pursuing a viable mar- routes and an experienced mar- A 2012 feasibility study for the itime development project that itime labor force.” Coos Bay project estimated that can capitalize on the Coos Bay Project Mainstay’s goal was to construction of a bulk marine harbor’s unique characteristics — develop a bulk coal export termi- to teen — again developable land, an extremely nal on Coos Bay’s North Spit. SEE COAL | A10 BY GEORGE ARTSITAS had rooted it in concrete to make The World sure it wouldn’t be taken again. The cross was a replacement for REEDSPORT — A memorial one that vanished a month ago, one Connecticut lawmakers cross on U.S. Highway 101 has been of several memorial crosses that broken just three weeks after being went missing along Highway 101 at replaced. that time. Police and highway The cross was erected to memo- authorities are powerless to help, unveil gun control plan rialize 19-year-old Tyler Hoffman, because the crosses themselves are who died in a 2011 car wreck near technically illegal on highway mile marker 228 between Lakeside right-of-way. BY SUSAN HAIGH closed-door negotiations. A vote is sage is: We can get it done here and and Coos Bay. Hoffman’s family The new cross cost about $400, The Associated Press expected Wednesday in the Gener- they should get it done in their erected a new cross after it myste- but the money isn’t important to al Assembly, where Democrats respective states and nationally in riously vanished nearly a month the family. Lucy Hoffman, Tyler’s HARTFORD, Conn. — With an control both chambers, making Congress.” ago. grandmother, is devastated by the announcement of sweeping pro- passage all but assured. The massacre reignited the gun Jason Hoffman, Tyler Hoff- news. posals to curb gun violence, Con- “Democrats and Republicans debate in the country and led to man’s father, works as a paramedic “My heart aches,”she said. “It’s necticut lawmakers said they are were able to come to an agreement calls for increased gun control leg- at Bay Cities Ambulance and hard to believe that in this day and hoping to send a message to Con- on a strong, comprehensive bill,” islation on the federal and state noticed it was gone during an time, that someone could be that gress and other state legislators said Senate President Donald E. levels. While some other states, ambulance run. Sometime cold-blooded to destroy some- across the country: A bipartisan Williams Jr., a Democrat from including neighboring New York, between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. thing that had nothing to do with agreement on gun control is possi- Brooklyn, who called the proposed have strengthened their gun laws, Monday, someone unearthed the them and everything to do with the ble. legislation the strongest, most momentum has stalled in Con- cross from its concrete base, broke healing of all the family and Legislative leaders Monday comprehensive bill in the country. gress, whose members were urged it in half and threw it 20 feet into friends.” revealed proposals spurred by the “That is a message that should by President Barack Obama last the woods along the highway. Anyone with information on the Dec. 14 Newtown school shooting resound in 49 other states and in The cross was four feet tall and destroyed cross is asked to call following weeks of bipartisan, Washington, D.C. 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C M C M Y K Y K C M C M Y K A2 •The World • Tuesday, April 2,2013 Y K South Coast City Editor Ryan Haas • 541-269-1222, ext. 239 theworldlink.com/news/local Coos Bay outlines Just warming up memorial options BY THOMAS MORIARTY through city/county insur- The World ance (CIS), litigation of this nature may or may not be COOS BAY — City offi- covered by under our policy cials will have at least four depending on specifics of the options to consider in deal- lawsuit,”Craddock said in his ing with a contested cross in report to the council. Coos Bay’s Mingus Park. He said three law firms In a staff report prepared have offered to defend the for the City Council’s meet- city for free if a lawsuit is ing tonight, City Manager Roger Craddock presented filed, but their representa- three options for modifying tion wouldn’t indemnify the the memorial: Selling, city in the event of a loss.