Winter Fuel Fraud & Tribes Speak Out
Winter Fuel Fraud & Tribes Speak Out plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.
Northwest tribal representatives from four U.S. tribes spoke in unified opposition today against oil giant Kinder Morgan's new proposed tar sands oil pipeline. The announcement took place in Chilliwack, B.C. Tribal elders, fishers, leaders and youth presented testimony opposing the project to Canada's National Energy Board saying they can no longer allow the Salish Sea to be used as a dumping ground. According to tribal leaders, if approved, the proposed pipeline would increase the risk of oil spills and cause more disruption of their fishing fleet. Coast Salish peoples are the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest, and have traditionally lived along the coasts of Oregon and Washington in the United States, and in British Columbia, Canada.
With cooler temperatures heading into the region a lot of folks are looking to stock up on firewood for the winter. Josh Nelson, field supervisor for the Weights and Measures Program in Oregon says to be on the lookout for shysters.
NELSON: There are a lot of fly-by-night operations out there that will deliver your cord of wood that aren't really business operators, that are just loading a trailer with a pile of wood and dumping it off and calling it a cord.
Now with today's Food Forethought, here's Lacy Gray.
Like their neighbors in Washington state last year, Oregon voters have been all over the news as they get ready to vote on whether to pass GMO labeling Initiative 92. Similar to Washington's Initiative 522, Oregon's Measure 92's campaign donors have come under close scrutiny, especially since it appears to be Oregon's most expensive ballot fight on record. According to filings with the Oregon Secretary of State's office supporters and opponents of Measure 92 have raised a whopping $17.6 million. Of course it is still only half of what was spent in Washington's GMO labeling war. If passed, Measure 92 would require food manufacturers to label all genetically modified foods, whether partially or wholly produced through genetic engineering. As far as Oregon voters opinion, surveys show that it is pretty much divided down the middle with 45% opposing the measure, 49% supporting, and the remaining 6% unsure.
Thanks Lacy. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
