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Fall 2016 Newsletter Friends of the Columbia Gorge Protecting the Gorge Since 1980 Fall 2016 Newsletter Inside: Mosier Derailment Raises Stakes Pages 4-5 Fall Hikes, Outings, & Stewardship Insert Historic Highway State Trail Page 11 Friends of the Columbia Gorge Sixteen oil tank cars derailed and four burst Founder Nancy Russell, 1932-2008 into flames in Mosier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Photo: Michael McKeag Eric Lichtenthaler* CHAIR Vince Ready* VICE CHAIR Kari Skedsvold SECRETARY/TREASURER Gorge, but the oil Debbie Asakawa Temple Lentz companies have Keith Brown* John Nelson* ignored even that Pat Campbell Carrie Nobles request. Further, Geoff Carr Meredith Savery Jim Chase Charlie Webster Governor Brown Gwen Farnham Polly Wood* has not publicly John Harrison opposed the BOARD OF TRUSTEES – LAND TRUST Take Action! proposed Tesoro John Nelson* PRESIDENT Savage oil terminal Jim Chase SECRETARY/TREASURER Keith Brown* in Vancouver, Pat Campbell No More Oil Disasters! Washington. Dustin Klinger ome of our worst fears came to pass Our elected leaders and representatives Barbara Nelson Rick Ray* in June, when a train carrying Bakken must do everything in their power to stop oil Scrude oil derailed and caught fire in companies from endangering Gorge lives and STAFF Mosier, Oregon. Fortunately, no one was communities and destroying ecosystems in the Nathan Baker SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY Kyle Broeckel DEVELOPMENT AssISTANT killed or injured, but toxic smoke and ash Columbia Gorge. Peter Cornelison* FIELD REPRESENTATIVE contaminated Mosier and the Gorge, the Pam Davee DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Mosier water system was compromised, Call Governor Kate Brown today! Kevin Gorman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Stan Hall CONTENT/PR SPECIALIST and oil spilled into the groundwater and the Urge Governor Brown to do everything Kate Harbour MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR Columbia River. in her power and use her authority now, to halt Maegan Jossy OUTREACH MANAGER oil trains through the Columbia Gorge and to Michael Lang CONSERVATION DIRECTOR Two years ago, the City of Mosier passed Kate Lindberg OUTREACH AssISTANT a resolution expressing strong concerns about publicly oppose the Vancouver oil terminal. Kate McBride* LAND TRUST MANAGER the safety of oil transport by rail. More than Call Governor Brown at 503-378-4582. Steve McCoy STAFF ATTORNEY Whether you’re in Oregon, Washington, Ryan Rittenhouse CONSERVATION ORGANIZER 40 other municipalities and organizations Renee Tkach* GORGE TOWNS TO TRAILS MANAGER have also passed similar resolutions. It is long or elsewhere, contact your governor, Paige Unangst FINANCE DIRECTOR past time that we protect our children, com- congressional representatives, the White David Williams GIS COORDINATOR, ENCORE FELLOW House, and other appropriate officials now. Sara Woods* LAND STEWARDSHIP COORDINATOR munities, and resources from irresponsible, Sandy Wright DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR destructive exploitation by oil companies. Demand they take action to protect the * Gorge area residents Oregon Governor Kate Brown and other Columbia River Gorge from deadly oil-by-rail elected leaders have called for a temporary risks. Comments can be sent from our website PUblISHE D AUGUST 2016 halt to oil train traffic in Columbia River at www.gorgefriends.org/nooiltrains. PUblICATION SUppORT Newsletter Design: Kathy Fors and Kathleen Krushas / To the Point Publications Our email Action Alerts provide the most timely, effective way to take action for the Editor: Betsy Toll / Lumin Creative Services Gorge. Subscribe at www.gorgefriends.org/subscribe, or call Ryan at 971-634-2034. PORTLAND OFFICE (until September 15): 522 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 720, Portland, OR 97204 www.senate.gov or www.house.gov 503-241-3762 Citizen Action Makes the Difference! Your voice is vital to Gorge protection. Let Congress hear from you. PORTLAND OFFICE (after September 15): 333 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 300, Portland, OR 97204 Oregon Washington 503-241-3762 Sen. Ron Wyden, 202-224-5244 Sen. Patty Murray, 202-224-2621 HOOD RIVER OFFICE: www.wyden.senate.gov/contact www.murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm 205 Oak St., Suite 17, Hood River, OR 97031 Sen. Jeff Merkley, 202-224-3753 Sen. Maria Cantwell, 202-224-3441 541-386-5268 www.merkley.senate.gov/contact www.cantwell.senate.gov/public WASHOUGAL OFFICE: Rep. Earl Blumenauer, 202-225-4811 Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, 202-225-3536 887 Main St., Suite 202, Washougal, WA 98671 Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, 202-225-0855 Rep. Derek Kilmer, 202-225-5916 360-334-3180 Rep. Greg Walden, 202-225-6730 Rep. Dan Newhouse, 202-225-5816 Rep. Peter DeFazio, 202-225-6416 Rep. Suzan DelBene, 202-225-6311 Rep. Kurt Schrader, 202-225-5711 Email your Congressional Representative by logging on to www.house.gov/writerep Link to us on Twitter and Facebook from our website: www.gorgefriends.org Cover: The Union Pacific oil train derailment in Mosier, Oregon, on June 3. Photo: Paloma Ayala Director’s Letter hen Friends of the Columbia years ago, has hit her stride as the volunteer Gorge hired me as executive mayor and ad hoc leader on a mission to end director in 1998, I already knew oil-by-rail in the Columbia Gorge. Wand loved many places in the Gorge, and I was Ron Carroll, a volunteer firefighter and excited about getting to know more. longtime Gorge activist, sums up the Mosier One place I quickly fell in love with was experience best. “People like me come out the small town of Mosier, right on the river for the views and the natural environment, in Wasco County, Oregon. I first engaged but quickly find out the people are the biggest with Mosier when locals organized to protect asset,” said Ron. “The views may bring you open land within the town, including a here, but the people will make you stay.” favorite waterfall and swimming hole. The Ninety Gorge residents gathered property was for sale and citizens raised funds Photo: Vince Ready in front of Mosier Community School to purchase it and make it a city park. Today, 96-car oil train derailed, spilling over 40,000 in early July, near the site of the June 3 Pocket Park is the launch point of Friends’ gallons of fuel and creating a terrifying blaze Union Pacific oil train derailment, spill, Mosier Plateau trail. that burned for 14 hours. and fire. Their action to defend the Gorge Later, when the Gorge Commission Following the fire, Friends wanted to honored the third anniversary of the oil was threatened with funding cuts, Mosier help Mosier residents share their stories about train derailment and explosion in Lac- had a community rummage sale, dedicating dealing with the crisis and its aftermath. Mégantic, Quebec, in 2013 that killed proceeds to the Mosier Grange, the Free I interviewed Mosier townspeople and 47 people and flattened part of the city’s Tibet campaign, and the Columbia River our board member Vince Ready (www. downtown area. Gorge Commission. I will never, ever forget lastinglight.photo) donated his moving images The fire on the tracks in Mosier was the stunned look on a state legislator’s face in to create these stories. I hope you will take finally extinguished, but the passion in Salem when the mayor of Mosier presented time to read the stories of the Mosier Voices, Gorge hearts is burning stronger than ever. him with an oversized check for a few hundred online at https://mosiervoices.com. dollars to support the Gorge Commission. If anything, June 3 added more resolve Mosier helped save the Commission that year. and cohesion to this town whose motto Mosier’s community spirit faced its is Small Enough to Make a Difference. Mayor Kevin Gorman, Executive Director hardest test yet on June 3 this year, when a Arlene Burns, who had worked for Friends [email protected] Mosier community members rallied on July 6 to defend Mosier and honor Friends of the Columbia Gorge works to ensure that the the community of beautiful and wild Columbia Gorge remains a place apart, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, three years after the an unspoiled treasure for generations to come. deadly derailment there. 3 Photo: Robin Dickenson Derailed tanker cars caught fire on a rare windless day in Mosier. Photo: Patrick Mulvihill, courtesy of Hood River News Mosier Derailment Raises Stakes Kevin Gorman, Executive Director, [email protected] Michael Lang, Conservation Director, [email protected] n the morning of June 3, 2016, 96 newer, supposedly safer, oil tank cars slight breeze was stirring that day. No one proponents of the Vancouver loaded with explosive Bakken crude oil was killed or injured. Had it been a typical Energy Project were preparing derailed in the Columbia Gorge town of windy Gorge day, the region would have Ofor a lengthy six-week hearing before Mosier, Oregon. Traveling at only 25 miles become an inferno. As it was, water in Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation per hour, 16 tank cars derailed and several Mosier was unfit for human use for several Council (EFSEC), seeking approval to burst into flame just yards from Mosier’s days after the disaster and long-term build the largest oil-by-rail terminal in sewage treatment plant, igniting a fireball impacts remain to be determined, as the North America along the Columbia River that sent massive clouds of toxic smoke groundwater is now showing contaminants in Vancouver, Washington. Until then, the hundreds of feet into the air. A school full as a result of the spill. Pacific Northwest had never experienced of children excited about their upcoming a catastrophic spill and fire from an oil summer break sat just 1,200 feet from the Broken hardware train, events that had been occurring with derailment site. Soon after the incident, the Federal alarming regularity around the country for The fire burned for 14 hours as more Railroad Administration determined the past two years. than 40,000 gallons of oil poured onto the derailment was caused by broken lag Just after noon that day, everything the ground and into the Columbia River bolts, and that Union Pacific’s “failure to changed when a Union Pacific train hauling and the sewage plant.
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