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Time wasted waiting on Keystone kill
Posted by Daily Astorian: None Given on November 10th, 2015
Daily Astorian: Declining for so long to simply make this decision official was a matter of avoiding an election-year handicap for a handful of politicians
Lawmakers should have used the time to find real alternatives
President Obama last week finally did something many felt he should and could have done near the start of his administration: He said no to the Keystone XL tar-sands oil pipeline between western Canada and refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Particularly during the months leading up to the...
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Climate change is quite real
Posted by Daily Astorian: None Given on May 19th, 2011
Daily Astorian: Climate change holds all sorts of surprises, and especially for farmers. When our newspaper group committed itself in 2004 to a year-long series on climate change, our editors’ first interviews were with agricultural economists – from Oregon State University and the University of California at Davis. The most striking prediction those two scientists made was that the amount of precipitation might not change so much as when the rainfall comes. We are already observing that phenomenon. Our series...