Surf's Up! Oregon's coast gets three miles and ten years

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Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:00am

That Spring breeze ruffling your fur?  It's the sea breathing a sigh of relief.  At least for three miles out and ten years on, new legislation protects Oregon's coastal waters from off-shore drilling.  Of copurse there are still millions of up-tapped miles wide open for oil and gas 'exploration'.  (Love that term, 'exploration':  See it's Okay.  They aren't really destroying marine habitat - they're just...Well...'exploring' is all.)  Representative Ben Cannon (No relation to the beach but if it didn't already exist, we could quite justifiably name a coastal community after the man - Perhaps an unspoiled, un'explored' one...)    While we stand on the shore, battered copy of Moby Dick in our hand, contemplating the briney deep, how about 'exploring' this:      When the the environment needs help - and protection - from the Human Animal tthat's when you know that Nature is in bad trouble and we are in worse.  Viz:  Two Guinness-caliber (The record-keeping receptacle, not the ombre beverage)  storms in less than a week, Cascadian snow not as packed as it should be, the Winter Olympics looming over Vancouver and no White Stuff - for the first time since uhhh, since the land's real residents resided there. Desertification steals across the planet polishing it's shiny doorknob and drought continues drinking us to death.

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