Cold feet on both sides of the Columbia River, but the CRC in some future mutation is virtually a done deal. Washington governor Chris Gregoire doesn't appear as keen on it as Oregon's own Kulongoski. But the thing is the people pushing for the megabridge all have the money to live beyond the environmental fall-out. As always in America, poor neighborhoods and the environment are going to pay the price for this mistake.
Downstate, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is officially on notice. The Western Environmental Law Center filed a Request for Rehearing on the Jordan Cove/Pacific Connector FERC decision. If the Commission ignores the action, then it could go to the 9th Circuit. Along the way, expect a lot of dirty deals to get shaken out.
And as Oregon flows through its own neural networks, Haiti's agony twists us all, posing us in the pain and horror. Making it all worse than it needed to be, America's acquisitive presence, fronted by military might and jingoism, prepared the path straight to hell. Picture: Your tax dollars paying some slack-jawed yokel with a gun and a uniform to protect a pallet of "high-energy biscuits" from the ravening mobs...
- KBOO