{"id":180203,"date":"2023-01-05T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=188730"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:00:21","slug":"robinowitz-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/robinowitz-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinowitz Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chuck Areford (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/01\/05\/going-electric-is-a-no-brainer-for-climate\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EW<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1\/5) claims I\u2019m grumpy because I don\u2019t like environmental groups being sleepy on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No group opposes expansions of Eugene to Junction City and toward Veneta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No group opposes the planned widening of Beltline highway from 10 to 16 lanes at the Willamette River.\u00a0 Last March, ODOT and Federal Highway Administration approved this and kept their decision from public view \u2014 until I filed a public records request. Fortunately, the third of a billion dollars for construction does not exist (yet?).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February 2020, Beyond Toxics, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands and 10 other groups signed the \u201cPrivate Forest Accord\u201d with Weyerhaeuser, Roseburg and other timber barons to permit continued aerial spraying and clearcutting on corporate timberlands. Oregon Wild\u2019s rural employee quit in disgust. A member of Cascadia Wildlands told me she was outraged that their deal \u201ccriminalized activism against spraying and allows presumptive damages with no limits against someone the industry teams \u2018interfering\u2019 with their \u2018operation.\u2019 We also gave them a raft of shit for their sellout bullshit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EWEB misinforms when they claim 90 percent of our electricity is renewable. EWEB is part of the western power grid \u2014 \u201cWestern Electricity Coordinating Council\u201d \u2014 which runs from B.C. to Tijuana to Denver. Natural gas is WECC\u2019s largest energy source and has increased more than renewables.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lesson of climate change and peak everything is we are all interconnected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I learned to use solar electric panels in 1990 the first lesson was \u201creduce consumption.\u201d PeakChoice.org and SustainEugene.org have details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Robinowitz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor\u2019s Note: Mark Robinowitz\u2019s websites espouse such theories as the idea that U.S. elections are \u201crigged\u201dand that 9\/11 was \u201cdeliberately allowed to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Areford (EW 1\/5) claims I\u2019m grumpy because I don\u2019t like environmental groups being sleepy on the job. No group opposes expansions of Eugene to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/01\/05\/robinowitz-responds\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,77,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ew-extra","category-letters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}