"Expansion likely to trigger renewable fuel standard"
Mitch Lies, Capital Press
9/5/08
SALEM - Oregon’s largest biodiesel processing facility on Friday, Aug. 29, celebrated a plant expansion that boosts its production capacity to 5 million gallons a year. The expansion is expected to trigger Oregon’s renewable fuel standard for diesel.
"This is the future we envisioned at the start of the 2007 session when we set out to make Oregon a leader in renewable energy," said Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, who spoke at the grand opening just days after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Merkley is running against Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., for Smith’s Senate seat. He was part of legislative leadership that passed Oregon’s renewable fuel standard last year.
The standard requires all diesel sold in Oregon contain 2 percent biodiesel when in-state production reaches 5 million gallons a year from Northwest feedstocks.
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Score one more for the gays!
Big ups to out lesbian State Representative Tina Kotek, D - Portland, for 1) coasting to a second State Rep term without attracting an opponent, ding!, and especially 2) scooping up a top-ranking role in the Oregon House, by being elected Deputy Majority Whip by your peeps in the party.
Kotek is [...]... more
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The BYU women’s basketball team put the pressure on Western Oregon early and led the whole game to finish with a 79-51 victory at the Marriott Center on Wednesday night.... more
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Smith poll numbers keep plunging; now 3rd least popular senator
Blue Oregon , Kari Chisholm, 3/6/08
Here at BlueOregon, we’ve been trying to shout it from the rooftops - Gordon Smith is vulnerable . The good folks at the DPO’s Stop Gordon Smith project have made it a steady refrain.
Now and again, though, I hear activists wonder if it’s really true. After all, the well-dressed millionaire has managed to bamboozle Oregon voters before. Well, folks, Oregon voters ar... more
Smith poll numbers keep plunging; now 3rd least popular senator
Blue Oregon , Kari Chisholm, 3/6/08
Here at BlueOregon, we’ve been trying to shout it from the rooftops - Gordon Smith is vulnerable . The good folks at the DPO’s Stop Gordon Smith project have made it a steady refrain.
Now and again, though, I hear activists wonder if it’s really true. After all, the well-dressed millionaire has managed to bamboozle Oregon voters before. Well, folks, Oregon voters ar... more
This morning’s Statesman Journal newspaper featured Merkley-supporting college students on the front page as they watched the returns from last night’s Democratic Presidential primary:
[Willamette University students Bradley Dunn (left, in his Merkley tshirt and sporting his Merkley bumpersticker on his laptop) with fellow Willamette College Democrat and Merkley supporter Ed McGlone and their friend Katie Hanschen.] (photo by Lori Cain, Statesman Journal)
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The Associated Press is reporting that Gordon Smith’s favorite front man, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain was involved in lobbying efforts for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, costing Oregon 225 jobs and $8 million.
"It is unacceptable that Republicans lobbied on behalf of a European company and against American workers," said House Speaker Jeff Merkley. "Gordon Smith and his friend John McCain are in Washington D.C. fight... more
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