Transportation

As summer is upon us, the Oregon Conservation Network, Oregon’s Largest Environmental Coalition, is in the process of choosing its “Priorities for a Healthy Oregon” for the 2011 session. As we make these decisions, we are all very aware of the tough choices Oregon is facing, and looking for innovative solutions to help the State meet its budget challenges and protect Oregon’s environment.

Who we elect matters

Check out this great video, created by our friends at Compass Media, highlighting Oregon's environmental champions and the incredible environmental safeguards they have helped to secure that help preserve Oregon's unique quality of life. This video was unveiled at OLCV's 13th Annual Dinner for the Environment on April 23, 2010. More than 1,100 guests attended.

The multibillion dollar boondoggle, aka the MegaBridge, aka the Columbia River Crossing (CRC), continues to run up against two inescapable facts: it's too expensive, and it will increase global warming pollution at a time where we need to be dramatically reducing it.

While CRC project staff have tried to massage the cost numbers (from $4,200 million to a mere $3,500 million) by delaying parts of the project until later ("look, we can afford the Ferrari because we won't pay some of the car loan until later"), the pollution numbers can't be ignored.

In The Portland Tribune's Sustainable Life section, published today, you can read an interview by Steve Law with recently departed OLCV executive director Jonathan Poisner.