Time to Gear UP!!!!!

Thursday, June 28 - OregonLNG - 6:30 p.m., Warrenton Community Center, 170 SW 3rd.  (turn left at the stopsign in Warrenton, then right on 3rd, the WCC is on your left.)   OregonLNG is the company that now leases the site formerly held by Calpine.  It will reveal its plans for an LNG terminal in Warrenton.  A good chance to hear about their rosy intentions for the Columbia and for our lives.  If you oppose LNG on the Columbia, then  attend this meeting and wear your most oppositional red shirt.  What do YOU want on our river?

Monday, July 2 - Free public LNG workshop -- 7:15 p.m. at the Cannery Pier Hotel, Union Fish Room, Astoria -    If you don't want LNG on the Columbia, but you're not sure what to say at the July 10 public hearing, you will get valuable information and ideas at this workshop.   We'll also be talking about hearing strategy, topics to cover, etc.   Your voice counts, and the county needs to know that the community doesn't want an LNG terminal in Clatsop County.   Contact Laurie Caplan at 338-6508 or Cheryl Johnson at 458-6910 for more information.  Presented by the Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition.

BE There on 7/10!!!! WE need to be there en masse. Whatever time of the day, you can make it. the evening session will be the most important.
WEAR RED AND COME WITH ATTITUDE.

Tuesday, July 10 - County Planning Commission hearing, Astoria High School, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., with lunch and dinner breaks.   Public testimony about all the many land use and zoning changes that NorthernStar wants so it can build an LNG terminal at beautiful Bradwood.  LNG speculators and supporters are dismissing opponents as a radical, vocal minority!  Show them we count!   People can sign up at the hearing to speak, most likely in the afternoon and evening after the formal corporate, legal, and agency presentations.   
More details to come.
and tune in KMUN this Sunday at 7 p.m. for a really interesting hour about "LNG and Our Economy."   90.9 and 91.1FM.  Great conversation with Laura Snyder (Lucy's Books), Don West (Cannery Pier Hotel), Ryan Davis (the Red Building), Robert Stang, (sustainable developer), and Laurie Caplan moderating.  Credible, knowledgeable speakers with eye-opening information (it was taped Thursday).   Steaming live on coastcommunityradio.org.

And you thought summer was just about sunshine and flowers and picnics!

Thoughts worth thinking about:

Idealism rescues cynicism and can be parsed, at least in democratic societies, as another word for freedom.  Democracy proceeds on the assumption that nobody knows enough, that nothing is final, that the old order (whether of men or institutions) will be carried offstage every twenty years.  The multiplicity of its voices and forms assumes a ceaseless making and remaking of laws and customs as well as of equations and matinee idols.  If democracy can be understood as a field of temporary coalitions among people of different interests, skills, and generations, then everybody has need of everybody else.  To the extent that a democratic government gives its citizens a chance to chase their own dreams, it gives itself the chance not only of discovering its multiple glories and triumphs but also surviving its multiple follies and crimes.

-- Lewis Lapham, ≥Notebook≤, Harperπs Magazine, fall 2001