Pamplin Media Group March 16 2021
Local readers sound off on issues like bicycle safety, saving Oregon s dairy farms and preventing youth suicide through gun safety.
On March 4, the Oregon Legislature Joint Transportation Committee received 93 Oregonians testimony about the Bike Bill 2021 bill, Senate Bill 395. Only three were adversarial against its passage and one was semi-adversarial. The remaining 30 plus were positive.
We still have a crisis on the streets. Pedestrian deaths have increased. As a reminder, Portland, 2020 had its deadliest year since 1996 with a total of 54 traffic deaths. This city s fatalities included five cyclists & 18 pedestrians. Oregon had a total of 67 fatalities in 2020 which was up by 6% from 2019.
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Partners Group Buys District Heating Platform in Northern Europe from Fortum
Posted on 03/13/2021
Partners Group, on behalf of its clients, agreed to acquire one of the largest district heating platforms in the Baltics, from Finnish energy company Fortum Corporation. Fortum, which operates across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has 74 generation assets, which generate heat capacity of 881 MW and power capacity of 130 MW across 387 kilometers of district heating networks. The District Heating Platform’s fuel is largely derived from renewable or recycled sources, mainly biomass.
The total consideration on a debt- and cash-free basis is 800 million euros. Fortum expects to record a tax exempt capital gain of approximately 240 million euros in the City Solutions segment’s second-quarter 2021 results. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021.
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Pigs are raised at a hog operation in Hawarden, Iowa. Lawmakers in Iowa and a handful of other states, frustrated by agricultural regulations they say don’t adequately protect water and air quality, have filed legislation to ban new or expanded large-scale farms.
(Nati Harnik The Associated Press)
Iowa has a poop problem.
The Hawkeye State’s pigs, cows and chickens produce about as much waste as 134 million people nearly the population of Russia. Most of that manure is spread onto fields as fertilizer, where significant amounts of it wash into Iowa waterways. The city of Des Moines uses one of the most expensive nitrate removal systems in the world to make its water supply from the Raccoon River safe to drink.