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Your Afternoon Coffee Break: Wyden and DeFazio Take A Hike

February 26, 2010
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Maybe it’s because my mind is fried from all the research I’m working on today, but this video from Oregon Wild is pretty amusing. It’s done Jib Jab style, with cartoon figures of Senator Wyden and Representative DeFazio hiking through the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness.

Wyden and DeFazio introduced legislation to protect the area last year, but the bill has languished on the sidelines as Congress has focused on other issues. Oregon Wild is leading a petition drive to remind them that Oregonians are still paying attention to the Devil’s Staircase and want to see the legislation passed.

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Walden Vs Gore On Biomass, See The Video

April 28, 2009
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Have you noticed all the news attention Representative Greg Walden is getting for his recent “debate” with Vice President Al Gore?

The two squared off over forest biomass, and whether or not it should be considered a form of renewable energy. The exchange came during a week long string of hearings on national greenhouse gas legislation.

Gore was skeptical. He appeared concerned that thinning federal forests for biomass fuel might encourage too much logging.

But Walden was clearly frustrated that biomass was not in the bill as a renewable energy source. He wants more thinning partly because he thinks it will help reduce wildfires. He also sees more jobs in the forests if thinning is ramped up, and at new power plants that could be built using biomass as fuel.

Walden isn’t alone in his point of view. Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Peter DeFazio also support including forest biomass on the renewable energy list.

Walden’s office posted the exchange on its YouTube page.

The exchange was well covered in the Bend Bulletin, and Walden carried on with his argument a few days later in White City as seen in this Medford Mail Tribune story.