{ "meetingId": "2026-09-24-1", "title": "Portland City Council PM Session 09/24/26", "displayTitle": "City Council · afternoon", "date": "2026-09-24T19:00:00-07:00", "duration": 176, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0KgJNCgCo", "videoId": "Kn0KgJNCgCo", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/council/agenda/2026/9/23", "agendaItems": [ { "number": 12, "title": "Adopt the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project to support public health and natural hazards risk reduction (amend Code Titles 33 and 24)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/cei-hub-code" }, { "number": 13, "title": "Add Bulk Fuel Terminal Capacity Reduction Regulations Code to reduce Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub fuel storage by 2036 in support of hazard mitigation (add Code Chapter 17.112)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/title-17-bulk-fuel-terminal-capacity-reduction-regulations" } ], "summary": "**The Portland City Council continued both ordinances of its Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy project to October 1 after hearing roughly 60 public testifiers, closing the oral record while leaving written testimony open until noon that day** ([02:53:21](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:53:21)).\n\n## The CEI Hub proposal and its drawdown fight\n\nThe two ordinances — item 2026-311, amending comprehensive plan and zoning Titles 33 and 24, and item 2026-312, adding Title 17 bulk fuel terminal capacity reduction rules — target the fuel terminals along Highway 30 and the Willamette River. Tom Armstrong, a supervising planner with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, told the council the existing code bars new terminals over 2 million gallons and that the proposal would require all terminals to cut in-service storage capacity by **20% by December 1, 2036** ([00:15:35](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:15:35)). He said that date was chosen to match the rough timeline of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality seismic stability program.\n\nCouncilor Steve Novick (District 3) pressed on that date, noting DEQ had said retrofits may not finish until 2038 to 2040. Staff acknowledged the DEQ date \"has been a moving target that has been slipping through this process\" ([00:20:30](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:20:30)).\n\nCouncilor Mitch Green (District 4), with co-sponsors Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2), Sameer Kanal (District 2), Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3) and Olivia Clark (District 4), previewed a package of amendments built from community coalition recommendations, worked out with staff and Deputy City Attorney Lauren King \"into the wee hours of the night\" ([00:23:14](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:23:14)). Green said the Title 17 amendment preserves the \"20% by... 2036\" target while adding a directive to begin a new drawdown methodology the following year ([00:24:40](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:24:40)).\n\nNovick introduced three separate amendments, the sharpest being Novick 1, a commitment that at least **40% of Portland Clean Energy Fund dollars** in the next climate investment plan go to transportation ([00:27:00](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:27:00)). He argued that \"unless demand goes down, any drawdown requirement we have is going to go away. The legislature won't let us cause a fuel crisis.\"\n\n## What the public said\n\nJose Gamero Jorgensen, co-chair of the Sustainability and Climate Commission, gave invited testimony that the commission \"voted to support this package as written with no amendments\" but had not seen the new amendments ([00:31:18](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:31:18)). He said the hub holds roughly **350 million gallons across 11 bulk terminals** and carries over 90% of Oregon's fuel supply.\n\nMost of the public urged the council to go further than the staff draft. Testifiers repeatedly asked for a drawdown measured by fuel volume rather than tank capacity, beginning in 2027; a single definition of \"fuel\" covering renewable and aviation fuels; closing expansion loopholes; and stronger enforcement. Residents from Linnton, St. Johns, the Multnomah Channel floating homes and other neighborhoods described living in what several called a \"sacrifice zone.\" Civil engineer Ana Tijerina Schino said a conservative spill scenario \"would likely be larger than the 134 million gallons released in the Deepwater Horizon disaster\" ([01:23:57](meeting:2026-09-24-1@01:23:57)). David Labbe said CEI tanks sit unanchored while PDX tanks rest on 130 cement-filled pilings ([00:59:38](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:59:38)). Lillian Weaver, a PSU doctoral student, cited a finding that \"every dollar invested in hazard mitigation saves 6\" ([00:57:32](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:57:32)).\n\nIndustry and labor pushed back. Tanya Hartnett of the Working Waterfront Coalition, representing 31 businesses, said BPS lacks jurisdiction to regulate throughput and warned that collecting volume data risks antitrust violations and exposes proprietary information ([00:35:19](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:35:19)). Howard Bell of OPEIU Local 11 and Sophia Steele Conley of the Western States Petroleum Association opposed the capacity cut, Conley comparing it to permanently cutting a grocery store's warehouse stock by 20% ([02:27:04](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:27:04)). Dan Eisenbeis of the Port of Portland asked the council to exempt aviation fuel, citing growing jet fuel demand at PDX, which employs over 10,000 people ([01:21:48](meeting:2026-09-24-1@01:21:48)). Amy Rathfelder of Northwest Natural supported the draft's utility exemption, saying Portland LNG serves over 150,000 customers in peak cold ([02:08:37](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:08:37)).\n\nThe antitrust claim drew a direct answer on the record. Economist Robert McCullough, who said he worked on California fuel-data law, told the council the \"antitrust argument is fallacious and has been rejected every time it's raised,\" adding, \"You are the government. The government can collect data\" ([01:32:56](meeting:2026-09-24-1@01:32:56)). An analyst at McCullough Research cited an Eco Northwest model review stating data limitations \"limit the use of the model to evaluate potential economic consequences of the proposed regulations\" ([01:36:00](meeting:2026-09-24-1@01:36:00)).\n\n## An exchange over Novick's record\n\nThe hearing drew one pointed personal attack. Sandy Fletcher of District 3 said she and others felt \"profound disappointment\" after Novick \"once again voted in lockstep with the interests of fossil fuels and corporate polluters,\" and alleged that councilors' votes were \"being corruptly influenced by the Portland Metro Chamber\" ([02:39:34](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:39:34)). The reference followed testimony tying the council's prior-day approval of a franchise transfer from Zenith Energy to the private equity firm I Squared Capital, which one testifier said operates 84 storage tanks at the hub ([01:53:15](meeting:2026-09-24-1@01:53:15)).\n\n## Councilor questions and next steps\n\nCouncilor Dan Ryan (District 2) said he enjoys public testimony and asked whether a full legal risk review of the amendments had happened, noting he received some just before the meeting ([02:50:59](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:50:59)). Green said his package was developed in \"constant communication\" with Lauren King but not a full review. Ryan asked to separate the aviation fuel exception for more discussion; Kanal and Pirtle-Guiney said the package was formatted with headers to allow digging into pieces but was introduced as a single amendment, with Pirtle-Guiney saying her hope was to pass it whole ([02:52:32](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:52:32)). Councilor Eric Zimmerman (District 4) asked staff to assess the amendments' impacts in real time ([00:28:32](meeting:2026-09-24-1@00:28:32)).\n\n## What's next\n\nBoth items are continued to **October 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM**, with the oral record closed and no further public testimony scheduled for that date ([02:55:08](meeting:2026-09-24-1@02:55:08)). The written record remains open until **noon on October 1**. Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) said the council is also tentatively holding October 7 for the items if needed, and Lauren King noted the council may vote to reopen the oral record during its October 1 deliberations.", "summaryText": "The Portland City Council continued both ordinances of its Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy project to October 1 after hearing roughly 60 public testifiers, closing the oral record while leaving written testimony open until noon that day (02:53:21).\n\nThe two ordinances — item 2026-311, amending comprehensive plan and zoning Titles 33 and 24, and item 2026-312, adding Title 17 bulk fuel terminal capacity reduction rules — target the fuel terminals along Highway 30 and the Willamette River. Tom Armstrong, a supervising planner with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, told the council the existing code bars new terminals over 2 million gallons and that the proposal would require all terminals to cut in-service storage capacity by 20% by December 1, 2036 (00:15:35). He said that date was chosen to match the rough timeline of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality seismic stability program.\n\nCouncilor Steve Novick (District 3) pressed on that date, noting DEQ had said retrofits may not finish until 2038 to 2040. Staff acknowledged the DEQ date \"has been a moving target that has been slipping through this process\" (00:20:30).\n\nCouncilor Mitch Green (District 4), with co-sponsors Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2), Sameer Kanal (District 2), Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3) and Olivia Clark (District 4), previewed a package of amendments built from community coalition recommendations, worked out with staff and Deputy City Attorney Lauren King \"into the wee hours of the night\" (00:23:14). Green said the Title 17 amendment preserves the \"20% by... 2036\" target while adding a directive to begin a new drawdown methodology the following year (00:24:40).\n\nNovick introduced three separate amendments, the sharpest being Novick 1, a commitment that at least 40% of Portland Clean Energy Fund dollars in the next climate investment plan go to transportation (00:27:00). He argued that \"unless demand goes down, any drawdown requirement we have is going to go away. The legislature won't let us cause a fuel crisis.\"\n\nJose Gamero Jorgensen, co-chair of the Sustainability and Climate Commission, gave invited testimony that the commission \"voted to support this package as written with no amendments\" but had not seen the new amendments (00:31:18). He said the hub holds roughly 350 million gallons across 11 bulk terminals and carries over 90% of Oregon's fuel supply.\n\nMost of the public urged the council to go further than the staff draft. Testifiers repeatedly asked for a drawdown measured by fuel volume rather than tank capacity, beginning in 2027; a single definition of \"fuel\" covering renewable and aviation fuels; closing expansion loopholes; and stronger enforcement. Residents from Linnton, St. Johns, the Multnomah Channel floating homes and other neighborhoods described living in what several called a \"sacrifice zone.\" Civil engineer Ana Tijerina Schino said a conservative spill scenario \"would likely be larger than the 134 million gallons released in the Deepwater Horizon disaster\" (01:23:57). David Labbe said CEI tanks sit unanchored while PDX tanks rest on 130 cement-filled pilings (00:59:38). Lillian Weaver, a PSU doctoral student, cited a finding that \"every dollar invested in hazard mitigation saves 6\" (00:57:32).\n\nIndustry and labor pushed back. Tanya Hartnett of the Working Waterfront Coalition, representing 31 businesses, said BPS lacks jurisdiction to regulate throughput and warned that collecting volume data risks antitrust violations and exposes proprietary information (00:35:19). Howard Bell of OPEIU Local 11 and Sophia Steele Conley of the Western States Petroleum Association opposed the capacity cut, Conley comparing it to permanently cutting a grocery store's warehouse stock by 20% (02:27:04). Dan Eisenbeis of the Port of Portland asked the council to exempt aviation fuel, citing growing jet fuel demand at PDX, which employs over 10,000 people (01:21:48). Amy Rathfelder of Northwest Natural supported the draft's utility exemption, saying Portland LNG serves over 150,000 customers in peak cold (02:08:37).\n\nThe antitrust claim drew a direct answer on the record. Economist Robert McCullough, who said he worked on California fuel-data law, told the council the \"antitrust argument is fallacious and has been rejected every time it's raised,\" adding, \"You are the government. The government can collect data\" (01:32:56). An analyst at McCullough Research cited an Eco Northwest model review stating data limitations \"limit the use of the model to evaluate potential economic consequences of the proposed regulations\" (01:36:00).\n\nThe hearing drew one pointed personal attack. Sandy Fletcher of District 3 said she and others felt \"profound disappointment\" after Novick \"once again voted in lockstep with the interests of fossil fuels and corporate polluters,\" and alleged that councilors' votes were \"being corruptly influenced by the Portland Metro Chamber\" (02:39:34). The reference followed testimony tying the council's prior-day approval of a franchise transfer from Zenith Energy to the private equity firm I Squared Capital, which one testifier said operates 84 storage tanks at the hub (01:53:15).\n\nCouncilor Dan Ryan (District 2) said he enjoys public testimony and asked whether a full legal risk review of the amendments had happened, noting he received some just before the meeting (02:50:59). Green said his package was developed in \"constant communication\" with Lauren King but not a full review. Ryan asked to separate the aviation fuel exception for more discussion; Kanal and Pirtle-Guiney said the package was formatted with headers to allow digging into pieces but was introduced as a single amendment, with Pirtle-Guiney saying her hope was to pass it whole (02:52:32). Councilor Eric Zimmerman (District 4) asked staff to assess the amendments' impacts in real time (00:28:32).\n\nBoth items are continued to October 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM, with the oral record closed and no further public testimony scheduled for that date (02:55:08). The written record remains open until noon on October 1. Council President Jamie Dunphy (District 1) said the council is also tentatively holding October 7 for the items if needed, and Lauren King noted the council may vote to reopen the oral record during its October 1 deliberations.", "summaryLede": "The Portland City Council continued both ordinances of its Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy project to October 1 after hearing roughly 60 public testifiers, closing the oral record while leaving written testimony open until noon that day.", "sections": [ { "title": "Time Certain Agenda", "startTime": "00:06:45.653", "endTime": "02:55:00.972", "items": [ { "title": "Adopt the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project to support public health and natural hazards risk reduction (amend Code Titles 33 and 24) (Ordinance)", "startTime": "00:08:18.824", "endTime": "01:37:33.591", "agendaItemNumber": 12 }, { "title": "Add Bulk Fuel Terminal Capacity Reduction Regulations Code to reduce Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub fuel storage 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427.967, "text": "Abolos?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-18", "start": 428.063, "end": 428.288, "text": "Present.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-19", "start": 428.674, "end": 429.445, "text": "Smith?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-20", "start": 429.799, "end": 430.04, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-21", "start": 430.49, "end": 431.608, "text": "Kanal?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-22", "start": 431.737, "end": 431.964, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-23", "start": 432.953, "end": 433.066, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-24", "start": 433.52, "end": 433.796, "text": "Ryan?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-25", "start": 435.384, "end": 435.497, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-26", "start": 436.097, "end": 436.405, "text": "Danfie?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-27", "start": 437.069, "end": 437.199, "text": "Here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-28", "start": 438.22, "end": 440.744, "text": "And can we please read the rules of decorum for the chamber?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-29", "start": 442.607, "end": 443.142, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-30", "start": 443.336, "end": 444.697, "text": "Welcome to the Portland City Council.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-31", "start": 445.264, "end": 450.934, "text": "To testify before council in person or virtually, you must sign up in advance on the council agenda at www.portland.gov/council/agenda.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-32", "start": 453.78, "end": 456.704, "text": "Information on engaging with the council can be found on the council clerk's webpage.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-33", "start": 456.849, "end": 460.448, "text": "Individuals may testify for 3 minutes unless the presiding officer states otherwise.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-34", "start": 460.545, "end": 462.795, "text": "Your microphone will be muted when your time is over.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-35", "start": 463.34, "end": 464.84, "text": "The presiding officer preserves order.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-36", "start": 464.904, "end": 470.775, "text": "Disruptive conduct such as shouting, refusing to conclude your testimony when your time is up, or interrupting others' testimony or council deliberations will not be allowed.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-37", "start": 472.808, "end": 474.587, "text": "If you cause a disruption, a warning will be given.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-38", "start": 474.779, "end": 477.088, "text": "Further disruption will result in ejection from the meeting.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-39", "start": 477.2, "end": 480.294, "text": "Anyone who fails to leave once ejected is subject to arrest for trespass.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-40", "start": 480.951, "end": 483.82, "text": "Additionally, council may take a short recess and reconvene virtually.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-41", "start": 484.494, "end": 486.786, "text": "Your testimony should address the matter being considered.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-42", "start": 486.978, "end": 488.758, "text": "When testifying, state your name for the record.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-43", "start": 488.806, "end": 490.152, "text": "Your address is not necessary.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-44", "start": 490.745, "end": 493.278, "text": "If you are a lobbyist, identify the organization you represent.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-45", "start": 493.454, "end": 496.741, "text": "Virtual testifiers should unmute themselves when the council clerk calls your name.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-46", "start": 496.901, "end": 497.222, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-47", "start": 497.799, "end": 498.488, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-48", "start": 498.825, "end": 501.005, "text": "Colleagues, we only have 2 items on our agenda today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-49", "start": 501.245, "end": 502.896, "text": "We are gonna read them at the same time.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-50", "start": 502.944, "end": 506.037, "text": "So Keelan, can we please call items 12 and 13 together.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-51", "start": 508.22, "end": 520.597, "text": "Document 20— item 12, document 2026-311, adopt the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project to support public health and natural hazards risk reduction, amend Code Titles 33 and 24.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-52", "start": 521.528, "end": 539.68, "text": "Item 13, document 2026-312, add bulk fuel terminal capacity reduction regulations code to reduce critical energy infrastructure hub fuel storage by 2036 in support of hazard mitigation, add Code Chapter Thank you, colleagues.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-53", "start": 539.68, "end": 555.76, "text": "This is the first reading and hearing for item 2026-311, the ordinance for the recommended draft of the CEI Hub policy project, and a hearing for item number 2026-312, the ordinance for the bulk fuel terminal capacity reduction regulations.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-54", "start": 555.76, "end": 562.38, "text": "The legislative records for these ordinances will include presentations and discussions at the September 17th, 2026 council work session.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-55", "start": 562.38, "end": 562.5, "text": "Thank you, Council Clerk Keelan McClymont.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-56", "start": 562.823, "end": 565.328, "text": "We will take joint testimony on both items today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-57", "start": 566.115, "end": 568.668, "text": "We had a full discussion of this item in work session last week.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-58", "start": 569.165, "end": 572.907, "text": "We're going to have a brief refresher from staff for the sake of the public record.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-59", "start": 573.485, "end": 579.699, "text": "We will then move to public testimony, but before we move to public testimony, I'll give councilors an opportunity to introduce amendments.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-60", "start": 579.763, "end": 590.878, "text": "But colleagues, I'll ask you to introduce them but not formally move them so that people in the audience are able to testify about them, and then we will move to them almost certainly next week for discussion.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-61", "start": 590.991, "end": 596.821, "text": "So first things first, I'd like to welcome up staff for a brief presentation.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-62", "start": 596.885, "end": 605.045, "text": "I believe we have Director Eric Engstrom, we have Tom Armstrong, and Patricia Diffenderfer from Planning and Sustainability.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-63", "start": 605.954, "end": 606.246, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-64", "start": 612.693, "end": 616.578, "text": "For the sake of brevity, I'm going to turn it directly over to staff to give you the refresher.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-65", "start": 617.096, "end": 623.388, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-66", "start": 637.01, "end": 639.323, "text": "All right, good afternoon, Council.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-67", "start": 639.598, "end": 640.795, "text": "Uh, I am Tom Armstrong.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 640.843, "end": 643.949, "text": "I'm a supervising planner with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-69", "start": 645.485, "end": 648.743, "text": "Before you today, as, as you just heard, are 2 ordinances.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-70", "start": 649.336, "end": 674.786, "text": "The first one includes comprehensive plan policy amendments, changes to the Title 33 zoning code to place limits on storage tank capacity and transloading infrastructure, as well as changes to Title 24, which are requirements for building permits related to the structural support with the piping of hazardous materials.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-71", "start": 674.834, "end": 675.091, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-72", "start": 675.799, "end": 697.409, "text": "The second ordinance is Title 17, the Capacity Reduction Program, that will place requirements on the bulk fuel terminals in the CI Hub in terms of inventory and fuel volume reporting requirements, as well as reducing storage tank capacity out to the year 2036.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-73", "start": 699.485, "end": 705.117, "text": "We have legislative records established for both of these ordinances that can be found in eFiles.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-74", "start": 707.136, "end": 718.609, "text": "All of the backup documentation, the previous reports and studies that provide the information and evidence that supports your decision.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-75", "start": 719.92, "end": 724.598, "text": "And those can all be found in these 2 e-file locations.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-76", "start": 726.26, "end": 728.789, "text": "Briefly, the comprehensive plan amendments.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-77", "start": 728.967, "end": 733.798, "text": "There are amendments to 2 of the existing comprehensive plan policies.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-78", "start": 734.523, "end": 734.893, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-79", "start": 735.471, "end": 759.288, "text": "Primarily to reflect the expanded limits going from just fossil fuels to include renewable fuels, as well as a suite of new policies that specifically address activities, development activities in the critical energy infrastructure hub.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-80", "start": 760.148, "end": 787.884, "text": "And in addition to establishing this geography and providing direction, there is a suite of subpolicies that get into specific issues such as seismic upgrades, environmental protection, interagency coordination, community resilience, and a— the future issue of considering limits on the storage of nonfuel—.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-81", "start": 787.884, "end": 788.04, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-82", "start": 788.648, "end": 790.165, "text": "Non-fuel hazardous materials.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-83", "start": 792.296, "end": 800.236, "text": "Briefly, the Title 33 and Title 24 code amendments, just to get everybody on the same page.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-84", "start": 800.927, "end": 808.209, "text": "Currently, our existing zoning code requirements prohibit new bulk fossil fuel terminals.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-85", "start": 808.322, "end": 811.962, "text": "That is any terminal with more than 2 million gallons of storage.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-86", "start": 812.832, "end": 817.868, "text": "What you see here in yellow is roughly a 2.3 million gallon storage tank.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" }, { "id": "cue-87", "start": 817.917, "end": 824.778, "text": "So these are terminals with large capacity of storage capacity.", "speaker": "Tom Armstrong" 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afterwards.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-155", "start": 1349.685, "end": 1351.113, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-156", "start": 1352.508, "end": 1359.663, "text": "What we have done, I don't know that I'm going to go line by line through this because it's pretty exhaustive, and I'll just hit the highlights.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-157", "start": 1359.727, "end": 1367.635, "text": "But from the work session last week, we got a presentation from the community, which was kind of a first of its kind.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-158", "start": 1367.683, "end": 1377.534, "text": "So what we did was we said, let's Let's see what we can do to take those recommendations and then turn them into an amendment that we can make work with this process.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-159", "start": 1377.663, "end": 1389.392, "text": "And so what we have filed for both of these items, both 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"cue-196", "start": 1601.828, "end": 1604.952, "text": "Therefore, it is incumbent on the city to do what it can to reduce demand.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-197", "start": 1605.497, "end": 1621.588, "text": "Accordingly, council expresses our commitment to work with the PCF committee and other stakeholders to ensure that the next climate investment plan, at least 40% of Portland Clean Energy Fund dollars will be spent in transportation measures to promote transit, biking, walking, transition to electric cars and the reduction of diesel emissions.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-198", "start": 1622.567, "end": 1634.857, "text": "And the idea here is to say that we're planning to put our money where our mouth is, because if demand does not actually go down, then the legislature won't let a drawdown occur.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-199", "start": 1636.204, "end": 1640.632, "text": "And I do not think that we at this point are doing what we should be doing to reduce demand.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-200", "start": 1641.033, "end": 1646.218, "text": "We have the Clean Energy Fund, which is supposed to address climate change issues and reduce emissions.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-201", "start": 1646.748, "end": 1648.868, "text": "Transportation is 40% of the emissions.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-202", "start": 1648.981, "end": 1651.229, "text": "Right now we're spending 20% of the PSF on that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-203", "start": 1651.535, "end": 1653.366, "text": "Initially it was zero.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-204", "start": 1653.703, "end": 1657.654, "text": "And we know that PSF priority populations care about transportation.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1657.734, "end": 1666.087, "text": "Councilor Kanal and I did a poll of PSF priority populations that showed that they care about transportation, particularly improved transit.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1667.131, "end": 1688.488, "text": "So in addition to the fact that I think that we should be spending an amount on transportation proportional to the emissions and the fact that the relevant communities are supportive of action in transportation, the CEI hub is another big reason to invest in transportation because it is literally true that unless demand goes down, any drawdown requirement we have is going to go away.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1688.648, "end": 1690.976, "text": "The legislature won't let us cause a fuel crisis.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1691.378, "end": 1697.239, "text": "So I think that we need to be doing whatever we can to reduce demand, and the PCEF is a tool to do that.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-209", "start": 1697.319, "end": 1697.463, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-210", "start": 1697.624, "end": 1697.881, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-211", "start": 1699.063, "end": 1699.89, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-212", "start": 1699.987, "end": 1704.661, "text": "All right, colleagues, before we turn to, uh, public testimony, I have a couple colleagues in the queue.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-213", "start": 1704.742, "end": 1705.277, "text": "Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-214", "start": 1706.137, "end": 1710.457, "text": "Just to clarify, Councilor Green, the same amendment for both, am I reading that correctly?", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-215", "start": 1712.602, "end": 1720.089, "text": "So there's amendments that speak to item 12, which is the comp plan and the zoning code, and then item 13 I think is the Title 17.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-216", "start": 1721.172, "end": 1727.475, "text": "And so we have a document that's titled yeah, and so it's 2 different, 2 different all of you people ones.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-217", "start": 1727.893, "end": 1728.39, "text": "Exactly.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-218", "start": 1728.471, "end": 1728.921, "text": "Okay, got it.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-219", "start": 1728.969, "end": 1731.137, "text": "And for each of those, they are consolidated.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-220", "start": 1731.186, "end": 1734.093, "text": "There's sub-amendments in that, but it's a consolidated document.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-221", "start": 1734.414, "end": 1734.672, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-222", "start": 1734.88, "end": 1746.639, "text": "And then I don't normally do this, but to the staff, this is such a technical situation that I would just say get ready, 'cause my question to you will be, what are the impacts of these amendments?", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-223", "start": 1746.703, "end": 1748.406, "text": "Because that's quite hard to digest here.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-224", "start": 1748.47, "end": 1751.185, "text": "So I'm looking for staff to be digesting this right now.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-225", "start": 1751.522, "end": 1753.898, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-226", "start": 1754.171, "end": 1754.701, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-227", "start": 1755.278, "end": 1760.848, "text": "Yeah, I, I did want to clarify something I said earlier when describing what we put in the record.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-228", "start": 1760.896, "end": 1776.755, "text": "The supplemental information for both item 12 and item 13 includes not only what the advocates put forward as their sort of, hey, we want to see these changes, but also what we received as responses by staff to their sort of proposals.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-229", "start": 1776.803, "end": 1779.355, "text": "And so that should include both of those pieces in the supplemental information.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-230", "start": 1779.676, "end": 1781.057, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-231", "start": 1781.523, "end": 1782.117, "text": "Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-232", "start": 1782.326, "end": 1783.064, "text": "Oh, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-233", "start": 1783.209, "end": 1783.466, "text": "Sorry, go ahead.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-234", "start": 1783.706, "end": 1815.413, "text": "May I just add to that, the goal in submitting that supplemental information is so that you all can see and members of the community can see what the asks were for improvements from advocates, what the staff response was, and how we took that staff response to then build the amendment moving forward so that you can start to see, Councilor Zimmerman, where the those changes were made and where there were perhaps places where through discussion with staff we decided that the risk identified may not have been as great.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-235", "start": 1815.959, "end": 1821.079, "text": "I think it's absolutely incumbent upon all of us to ask staff to place those things on the record.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-236", "start": 1821.496, "end": 1826.793, "text": "But hopefully those documents can serve as a starting point for you to see where that was already taken into account.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-237", "start": 1826.97, "end": 1828.655, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-238", "start": 1828.896, "end": 1829.377, "text": "Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-239", "start": 1830.581, "end": 1841.017, "text": "I also wanted to clarify something I'm not sure I said forcefully enough, which is that I'm talking about the next PCF CIP that starts in 2029, having 40% go to transportation.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-240", "start": 1841.097, "end": 1844.79, "text": "I'm not talking about diving into the current CIP and making that big an adjustment.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-241", "start": 1845.994, "end": 1846.621, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-242", "start": 1846.942, "end": 1853.188, "text": "Okay, colleagues, in the interest of getting to the main show today, I'm going to move us to public testimony.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-243", "start": 1853.926, "end": 1859.225, "text": "Keelan, can we please call the first panel of testif— oh, actually, I'm sorry, I actually have invited testimony first.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-244", "start": 1859.869, "end": 1867.835, "text": "Beginning public testimony with invited remarks from Jose Gamero Jorgensen, who is the co-chair of the Sustainability and Climate Commission.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-245", "start": 1868.581, "end": 1871.695, "text": "Jose, hello, friend.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-246", "start": 1878.267, "end": 1879.375, "text": "Hello, city councilors.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-247", "start": 1879.552, "end": 1880.468, "text": "Thank you for having me.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-248", "start": 1881.32, "end": 1883.152, "text": "Again, my name is Jose Gamero Jorgensen.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-249", "start": 1883.36, "end": 1888.641, "text": "I use he/him pronouns, and I serve as the co-chair of Portland Sustainability and Climate Commission.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-250", "start": 1888.868, "end": 1895.231, "text": "I'm hearing— I'm here today on my official capacity, giving testimony on behalf of the full commission.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-251", "start": 1896.388, "end": 1912.248, "text": "At our August 20th meeting, the commission received a briefing from the Bureau of Planning Sustainability staff, Tom Armstrong and Ryan Singer, similar to the one you saw today on the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy project and the 2 ordinances before you.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-252", "start": 1913.116, "end": 1924.25, "text": "As you know, the CI Hub the Portland Fuel Terminal along Highway 30 and Willamette River holds roughly 350 million gallons of fuel across 11 bulk terminals, and it carries over 90% of Oregon's fuel supply.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-253", "start": 1924.75, "end": 1931.68, "text": "It also sits on some of the most seismically vulnerable grounds in the region, a known and serious risk to public safety.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-254", "start": 1932.21, "end": 1935.51, "text": "The package before you today are 2 ordinances.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-255", "start": 1935.51, "end": 1942.38, "text": "I'm here to testify just on one of them, the Title 17 Bulk Fuel Terminal Reduction Regulations.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-256", "start": 1942.38, "end": 1942.48, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Mitch Green.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-257", "start": 1943.293, "end": 1950.991, "text": "The ordinance reduced storage capacity at the hub by 20%, from about 350 million gallons to 280 million by 2036.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-258", "start": 1951.937, "end": 1959.042, "text": "After hearing the staff briefing and discussing the proposal, the commission voted to support this package as written with no amendments.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-259", "start": 1959.731, "end": 1964.944, "text": "But just to be clear, we didn't know about any of these new amendments, so we couldn't vote on them or discuss them.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-260", "start": 1966.13, "end": 1968.52, "text": "We recognize that this doesn't eliminate thank you.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-261", "start": 1968.616, "end": 1976.214, "text": "This package does not eliminate the risk entirely, nor does it eliminate our region's continued dependence on the liquid fuels this hub supplies to our economy.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-262", "start": 1977.032, "end": 1990.577, "text": "Some of our commissioners pushed questioning whether this package goes far enough to achieve Portland's climate goals, and even after the discussion, many of them feel that it really doesn't.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-263", "start": 1991.235, "end": 2000.26, "text": "But the commission's judgment was that meaningful, well-supported progress now is far preferable to continued delay, and that this proposal reflects genuine thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-264", "start": 2000.26, "end": 2000.26, "text": "Councilor Sameer Kanal.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-265", "start": 2000.26, "end": 2009.51, "text": "This report is the result of a commitment, years-long collaboration between city staff, neighborhood groups, environmental organizations, and industry and labor stakeholders.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-266", "start": 2010.96, "end": 2025.16, "text": "The commission recognizes that our role in developing the city's next climate action plan is to create the strategies for which we can reduce our dependency on fossil fuel— fossil fuels in the transportation sector, and this is a good step forward.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-267", "start": 2025.72, "end": 2030.3, "text": "On behalf of the Sustainability and Climate Commission, I respectfully urge council to adopt this package.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-268", "start": 2031.615, "end": 2032.454, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-269", "start": 2032.701, "end": 2033.359, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-270", "start": 2035.22, "end": 2039.407, "text": "Okay, Keelan, just heads up to everybody, there's about 60 people signed up to testify.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-271", "start": 2039.682, "end": 2045.115, "text": "Just to set expectations in the room, we will almost certainly not get to the point where we can actually vote on amendments today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-272", "start": 2045.277, "end": 2048.77, "text": "This will almost certainly be a continued first reading to next week.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-273", "start": 2048.915, "end": 2051.115, "text": "And so we want to hear from you all.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-274", "start": 2051.163, "end": 2052.311, "text": "That is our priority today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-275", "start": 2052.554, "end": 2055.06, "text": "So Keelan, can you please call the first panel of testifiers up?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-276", "start": 2055.383, "end": 2055.868, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-277", "start": 2056.515, "end": 2058.373, "text": "I will call up testifiers in groups of 5.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-278", "start": 2058.47, "end": 2060.135, "text": "Each individual will have 2 minutes.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-279", "start": 2060.663, "end": 2066.233, "text": "For those testifying in person, you will see the timer countdown displayed on the monitor in front of the testimony table.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-280", "start": 2066.907, "end": 2069.828, "text": "For those testifying virtually, the timer is displayed in Zoom.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-281", "start": 2070.454, "end": 2076.313, "text": "You will hear the timer sound twice, once when there are 30 seconds left, then a second time when your time is up.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-282", "start": 2076.859, "end": 2080.053, "text": "Before you begin your testimony, please state your name for the record.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-283", "start": 2080.952, "end": 2094.514, "text": "First up, we have Tanya Hartnett, Diane Meisenhelter, Dejuna Martin, Juliet Twemlow, Take your time if you're coming from upstairs.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-284", "start": 2094.579, "end": 2095.194, "text": "Please don't run.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-285", "start": 2095.551, "end": 2096.263, "text": "We will wait for you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-286", "start": 2098.491, "end": 2100.588, "text": "Whoever sits down first gets to go first.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-287", "start": 2100.652, "end": 2103.442, "text": "So there's a screw on the floor.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-288", "start": 2103.878, "end": 2104.442, "text": "Oh, thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-289", "start": 2117.05, "end": 2117.565, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-290", "start": 2117.726, "end": 2118.048, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-291", "start": 2119.82, "end": 2124.91, "text": "My name is Tanya Hartnett, Executive Director of Working Waterfront Coalition and a registered lobbyist.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-292", "start": 2125.296, "end": 2134.794, "text": "WWC represents 31 industrial and maritime businesses of whom power Portland's harbor economy and sustain tens of thousands of family-wage jobs across our region.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-293", "start": 2135.99, "end": 2151.266, "text": "On September 17th, Working Waterfront submitted for the— for for the record, formal written comments on BPS's original proposed CEI Hub policies under Titles 33, 24, and 17 dated August 17th, 2026.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-294", "start": 2151.988, "end": 2156.963, "text": "Those comments did not reflect the new documents released on September 16th, '26.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-295", "start": 2157.589, "end": 2166.286, "text": "Today, my comments will focus on concerns of what the community and environmental advocates presented as a package of recommendations to BPS's policy proposals.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-296", "start": 2166.351, "end": 2166.559, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-297", "start": 2167.458, "end": 2176.735, "text": "The proposed amendments would change the regulatory framework from storage capacity to volume of product handled and moving through the system.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-298", "start": 2177.264, "end": 2180.924, "text": "We do not believe that BPS has the jurisdiction to regulate throughput.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-299", "start": 2181.662, "end": 2192.479, "text": "The proposed amendments require the collection of data on volume of products stored and handled by the facilities, which is proprietary information of the facilities and their customers.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-300", "start": 2193.377, "end": 2200.57, "text": "The appropriate safeguards for the collection and management of this information must be established to prevent violations of antitrust protections.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-301", "start": 2201.483, "end": 2206.658, "text": "We oppose the expansion of the products covered by this policy beyond fossil and renewable fuels.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-302", "start": 2208.132, "end": 2214.989, "text": "Working Waterfront cannot accept the assumption that the drawdown will not have an impact on consumer prices and available fuel supplies.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-303", "start": 2215.566, "end": 2231.099, "text": "The Eco Northwest study states any disruption to the CEI Hub operations, whether from policy changes, infrastructure, constraints or external market shocks has the potential to affect fuel availability and pricing for consumers and businesses statewide.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-304", "start": 2231.613, "end": 2244.652, "text": "The most direct effects fall on the household budgets, where higher fuel prices function as a tax on disposable income, reducing the purchasing— reducing the purchasing power available for other goods and services.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-305", "start": 2244.989, "end": 2252.749, "text": "These effects are regressive, falling hardest on lower-income households for whom fuel represents a larger share of take-home okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Tanya Hartnett" }, { "id": "cue-306", "start": 2253.313, "end": 2253.977, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-307", "start": 2255.79, "end": 2256.873, "text": "Thanks, Diane Meissenhelder.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-308", "start": 2257.035, "end": 2260.447, "text": "And please read my written map testimony on the 3 policies.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-309", "start": 2260.512, "end": 2266.369, "text": "You can't do it in 30 seconds, but I'm just going to give context— I mean, in 90 seconds.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-310", "start": 2266.804, "end": 2290.346, "text": "In 2019, as a neighborhood emergency volunteer responder, I started work on the CI Hub after talking with our local fire department about what support we could expect after a major seismic event and being shocked despite being an environmental activist for half a century, I also hadn't come to realize how truly frightful climate change is already in the Global South until I started working daily with XR chapters in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-311", "start": 2290.988, "end": 2303.299, "text": "Scientists keep issuing increasingly desperate warnings about how fast climate chaos is accelerating, how close we are to irreversible tipping points, and how those contributing least to emissions are being hit first and worst.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-312", "start": 2303.973, "end": 2312.844, "text": "We can't afford to wait another 10 years for something we as global citizens can do now for ourselves and others to hasten the transition to cleaner fuels.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-313", "start": 2313.421, "end": 2325.355, "text": "Locally, we must do all within our power to minimize the multiple risks the CEI Hub poses or face human, ecosystem, and economic losses that are unthinkable for Portland and the state as a whole.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-314", "start": 2325.869, "end": 2328.692, "text": "This is why we want the community initiative amendments adopted.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-315", "start": 2329.093, "end": 2330.89, "text": "It's most critical to start next year with Aye.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-316", "start": 2330.89, "end": 2330.91, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-317", "start": 2330.91, "end": 2330.91, "text": "I support this ordinance.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-318", "start": 2330.91, "end": 2341.53, "text": "It is a significant initial fuel drawdown and continued phased reductions every 3 years based on real data and in line with Oregon's climate goals continuing beyond '36.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-319", "start": 2341.63, "end": 2347.89, "text": "We must enact transportation and building decarbonization policies to nudge fuel demand downward.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-320", "start": 2347.89, "end": 2359.01, "text": "What you do here could put us on a path towards a well-being economy with health and safety protections and prosperity for generations, or we will continue towards unmitigated multiple disasters.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-321", "start": 2359.875, "end": 2368.813, "text": "Please do the right thing and know that since we just got the amendments and we haven't even seen them yet, we're probably gonna be talking to you all a lot.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-322", "start": 2369.772, "end": 2384.333, "text": "But I would say I support your, Novick, your 3rd amendment, and I would take out numbers in your piece, but we do want that decarbonization.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-323", "start": 2384.616, "end": 2384.683, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-324", "start": 2385.688, "end": 2386.316, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-325", "start": 2388.104, "end": 2393.579, "text": "Hi, my name is Yuna Martin, and I have lived my whole life in Linnton, less than a 5-minute walk away from the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-326", "start": 2394.224, "end": 2401.107, "text": "When I was 7 years old, I had to attend my first community evacuation meeting in the likelihood that a 9-point earthquake might demolish my neighborhood.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-327", "start": 2401.67, "end": 2408.866, "text": "The unstable soil which these tanks are built upon is at risk of being destroyed, along with 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environmental justice class at Lincoln High School, members of which stood here in 2016 fighting to prevent the expansion of fossil fuels that we're still here fighting against today.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-334", "start": 2435.042, "end": 2447.667, "text": "These big oil companies might not be concerned about the impacts of their expansion, but us students are, and we urge you to work on real reduction goals using precise language to ensure that there will be a measurable drawdown of fossil fuels near my home in the years to come.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-335", "start": 2448.393, "end": 2452.314, "text": "This is necessary for prioritizing the safety of people like me and the land we inhabit.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-336", "start": 2452.814, "end": 2454.01, "text": "Therefore, I thank you for your consideration.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-337", "start": 2458.92, "end": 2464.851, "text": "My name is Juliet 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able to experience the wonders of Portland and fall in love with its natural beauty just like I did.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-347", "start": 2525.36, "end": 2531.359, "text": "I hope that we are able to walk through Forest Park and swim in the Willamette River without the threat of contamination and fires.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-348", "start": 2532.097, "end": 2540.776, "text": "Our handling of the CI hub will show Portland's commitment to environmental justice, climate action, and most importantly, secure a safe community for decades to come.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-349", "start": 2541.498, "end": 2542.813, "text": "Our action needs to start now.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-350", "start": 2543.182, "end": 2548.572, "text": "Currently, the drawdown plan reduces fuel levels over the next 10 years, but we don't have that time to spare.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-351", "start": 2549.358, "end": 2558.181, "text": "Future generations are depending on us, just like I am depending on you to adopt these amendments and preserve the unique and beautiful city that Portland is and can continue to be.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-352", "start": 2558.229, "end": 2558.405, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Dejuna Martin" }, { "id": "cue-353", "start": 2559.139, "end": 2562.668, "text": "There's no price we can place on our Earth and our city's long-term health.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-354", "start": 2563.426, "end": 2569.614, "text": "While my peers and I may be young, nobody's ever too, too young to fight for a natural and secure environment.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-355", "start": 2570.137, "end": 2570.643, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-356", "start": 2571.264, "end": 2571.852, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-357", "start": 2573.704, "end": 2575.124, "text": "Good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-358", "start": 2575.317, "end": 2576.544, "text": "My name is Deneen Crowe.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-359", "start": 2577.318, "end": 2581.32, "text": "I'm the campaign director at 350 PDX, and I live in District 2.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-360", "start": 2582.579, "end": 2588.369, "text": "Thank you so much for your collaboration with community throughout this year-long policy process.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-361", "start": 2589.292, "end": 2593.992, "text": "To make the CEI hub safer and reduce harm for all Portlanders.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-362", "start": 2594.987, "end": 2601.355, "text": "So, so many hours, resources, and energy went into this process this past year.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-363", "start": 2601.483, "end": 2610.803, "text": "So it would be a disappointment to pass something that is just okay, and in some cases could cause and continue harm at the hub.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-364", "start": 2611.91, "end": 2616.209, "text": "We need to take this opportunity to pass a bold policy with teeth.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-365", "start": 2616.626, "end": 2618.182, "text": "And with accurate timelines.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-366", "start": 2619.209, "end": 2625.657, "text": "We need a fuel reduction program that begins a phased, data-driven drawdown of fuels in 2027.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-367", "start": 2626.411, "end": 2631.063, "text": "Waiting an entire decade to begin this process is unacceptable.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-368", "start": 2632.346, "end": 2639.885, "text": "We know more data is needed, but while that is being gathered, a drawdown can begin based on demand in our existing service area.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-369", "start": 2640.462, "end": 2646.751, "text": "And it is very important that any of this demand is from the coming from the local Columbia River region.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-370", "start": 2647.505, "end": 2654.982, "text": "Otherwise, we put our city at risk of continuing to be a sacrifice zone for the profit of others far away.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-371", "start": 2656.426, "end": 2661.352, "text": "There also must be stronger enforcement consequences for noncompliance.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-372", "start": 2661.481, "end": 2666.904, "text": "We have seen companies operating in the hub just treat fines as the cost of doing business.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-373", "start": 2667.642, "end": 2675.472, "text": "The city needs to implement retroactive measures that revoke franchise agreements or business licenses for those repeat offenders.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-374", "start": 2675.52, "end": 2675.809, "text": "Councilor Loretta Smith.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-375", "start": 2676.484, "end": 2680.87, "text": "That we know very well of city or state laws or policies.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-376", "start": 2681.85, "end": 2693.161, "text": "We also need one definition of fuel, which helps us avoid confusion and gets around the reality about the toxics and dangers of quote-unquote renewable fuels.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-377", "start": 2694.64, "end": 2699.508, "text": "I support the amendments that were developed in collaboration with community.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-378", "start": 2699.765, "end": 2700.391, "text": "Thank you all.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-379", "start": 2701.211, "end": 2701.773, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-380", "start": 2701.95, "end": 2702.239, "text": "Thank all of you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-381", "start": 2704.805, "end": 2715.097, "text": "Our next panel includes Heather King, Jaraisha Brannon, John Rosapopp, Charisse Bach, Maeve Fellerhoff.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-382", "start": 2719.253, "end": 2721.202, "text": "You made it down to the— here first, you're welcome to go.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-383", "start": 2722.651, "end": 2722.973, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-384", "start": 2723.215, "end": 2724.954, "text": "Good afternoon, my name is Heather King.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-385", "start": 2725.131, "end": 2728.899, "text": "I'm co-executive director and Lower Willamette Riverkeeper at Willamette Riverkeeper.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-386", "start": 2729.728, "end": 2736.454, "text": "I want to also thank you for the work that you've done with the community advocates to put these amendments forward.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-387", "start": 2736.968, "end": 2747.113, "text": "And I know you've already heard much of what I'm about to say, and yes, I could have just simply submitted written testimony to all of you, but this decision is important enough that I wanted you to hear it directly from me.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-388", "start": 2748.205, "end": 2756.135, "text": "Before you is an opportunity to pass sensible, strong public policy that will shape public safety, our environment, and our economy for decades to come.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-389", "start": 2757.515, "end": 2764.352, "text": "The CEI Hub presents an enormous risk, not just to Portland, but to the communities throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-390", "start": 2765.058, "end": 2771.333, "text": "Last week, I joined members of the community coalition to present amendments intended to strengthen the proposed BPS policy.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-391", "start": 2772.2, "end": 2782.311, "text": "Our requests are straightforward: reduce risk, increase safety, align city policy with state regulations, and use clear language that strengthens implementation and enforcement.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-392", "start": 2782.375, "end": 2782.471, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-393", "start": 2783.353, "end": 2787.487, "text": "And when it comes to drawdown, we're asking you to take that same common-sense approach.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-394", "start": 2788.465, "end": 2798.657, "text": "A one-time 20% reduction in tank capacity by 2036 is a start, but it doesn't actually answer the bigger question: how much fuel do we need to store at the hub?", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-395", "start": 2799.442, "end": 2803.672, "text": "We know that fuel demand is changing, and we have the ability to track those changes.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": 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"start": 2853.907, "end": 2855.507, "text": "Hello, my name is Dreesha Brannon.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-410", "start": 2855.701, "end": 2861.489, "text": "I serve on the Portland Planning Commission, but I'm here today speaking for myself as a lifelong and 4th-generation Portlander.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-411", "start": 2861.966, "end": 2864.085, "text": "The CEI hub is an environmental justice issue.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-412", "start": 2864.55, "end": 2872.142, "text": "North and Northeast Portland communities have lived with the consequences of industrial development, displacement, and major infrastructure decisions for generations.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-413", "start": 2872.575, "end": 2881.097, "text": "We must stop asking communities to carry disproportionate environmental and public health risks simply because reducing those risks is difficult, expensive, and inconvenient.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-414", "start": 2881.98, "end": 2884.853, "text": "I support this proposal, but I urge council to strengthen it.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-415", "start": 2885.174, "end": 2890.486, "text": "We must address the dangers of holding hazardous materials on liquefiable soils by improving emergency preparedness.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-416", "start": 2890.535, "end": 2890.775, "text": "Councilmember Smith.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-417", "start": 2891.337, "end": 2895.077, "text": "Evacuation planning, and ensure Portland is aware of the risk they live by.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-418", "start": 2896.007, "end": 2911.72, "text": "Additionally, while working on this policy, I strongly advocated for higher structural standards, but seismic improvements do not address why we are continuing to store hazardous chemicals on one of the most seismically vulnerable areas of our city, directly beside our incredibly precious Willamette River.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-419", "start": 2912.779, "end": 2913.726, "text": "The river is important.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-420", "start": 2913.999, "end": 2916.695, "text": "It is a habitat, a cultural and tribal resource.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-421", "start": 2917.032, "end": 2921.416, "text": "Part of Portland's identity, and it is central to the future waterfront that the city is now envisioning.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-422", "start": 2922.235, "end": 2930.777, "text": "Council spends a considerable amount of time prioritizing Portland's economic future, but you cannot separate that future from environmental resilience.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-423", "start": 2930.986, "end": 2937.505, "text": "You cannot build businesses on a flaming river or with a multibillion-dollar cleanup or support workers while putting them at risk.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-424", "start": 2938.324, "end": 2940.877, "text": "Our zoning code should prevent further expansion of this risk.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-425", "start": 2940.941, "end": 2941.84, "text": "Councilmember Loretta Smith.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-426", "start": 2942.642, "end": 2943.973, "text": "Prevent further expansion of this risk.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-427", "start": 2944.069, "end": 2948.766, "text": "That means avoiding exemptions that allow additional fuel because it is for aviation or renewable.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-428", "start": 2949.84, "end": 2953.51, "text": "Despite what a fuel's purpose is, public health and safety should be the utmost priority.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-429", "start": 2953.783, "end": 2957.774, "text": "The 20% reduction by 2036 without requiring actual drawdown is not enough.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-430", "start": 2958.175, "end": 2963.802, "text": "If we are already collecting data, real tank data, we should be using that information to evaluate reductions along this way.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-431", "start": 2964.186, "end": 2968.883, "text": "Use data, measure progress, and require compliance as we do for other infrastructure.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-432", "start": 2968.931, "end": 2969.059, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-433", "start": 2969.478, "end": 2971.991, "text": "We deserve accountability with so much at stake.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-434", "start": 2972.78, "end": 2976.904, "text": "Yes, Oregon depends on the CI hub now, but dependence should not be an argument for weak policy.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-435", "start": 2977.001, "end": 2982.567, "text": "It should be the reason why we deliberately plan for a transition, which is not just a city goal but a statewide goal.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-436", "start": 2982.955, "end": 2985.44, "text": "I urge you to adopt these— this proposal.", "speaker": "Jaraisha Brannon" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 2986.021, "end": 2986.602, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 2989.58, "end": 2990.368, "text": "Hello, councilors.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 2990.481, "end": 2991.8, "text": "Good to be with you this afternoon.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 2992.572, "end": 2993.553, "text": "My name is Cherie Spock.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 2993.617, "end": 2996.255, "text": "I'm the climate policy director at 350 PDX.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 2996.686, "end": 2999.156, "text": "And I appreciate the chance to speak with you again.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 2999.332, "end": 3002.139, "text": "I reiterate everything that Heather and I said last week.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-444", "start": 3002.861, "end": 3015.77, "text": "And on the CEI Hub, I've talked to you in the past about my kids and as I— as we're considering their future, and about the thousands of Portlanders who 350 PDX organizes with and who care about climate justice.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-445", "start": 3016.348, "end": 3022.089, "text": "One thing you may not know about me is that I also teach a class every semester at University of Portland in the Environmental Studies Department.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-446", "start": 3022.153, "end": 3022.249, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-447", "start": 3023.148, "end": 3032.135, "text": "And every semester I have to break it to my students that they basically live in a Superfund site and across the river from this extremely dangerous CEI hub.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-448", "start": 3032.552, "end": 3039.388, "text": "It makes them kind of consider their life choices, but I hope that we can give them more better news in the future.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-449", "start": 3040.255, "end": 3052.595, "text": "So I appreciate the intense work that has been put in in the last week in particular by BPS and Councilors Green and Pirtle-Guiney and their staff in a marathon last night.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-450", "start": 3053.999, "end": 3090.765, "text": "And with a cursory look at the Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Koyama Lane, Kanal, Clark amendments that just appeared on the website within the last hour, I would say that it looks like we can support those amendments that say that we can— they've incorporated many of the things that we asked for and say that they're going to be implemented this coming year and then bring it back next September after doing more work with community and stakeholders to fix some of the issues that are a little bit outstanding that we haven't— don't have quite the time to work on yet.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-451", "start": 3091.311, "end": 3098.231, "text": "So as far as the Novick amendments, I think we're agreeing with the goals that Novick is sharing there.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-452", "start": 3098.376, "end": 3112.657, "text": "Novick 1, we agree with the goal of reducing the need for fossil fuels through various policies and transportation, but we disagree with naming a 40% amount of PSF that is going to be applied to that without first going to the community to ask for that.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-453", "start": 3113.339, "end": 3113.534, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-454", "start": 3113.615, "end": 3115.205, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-455", "start": 3119.069, "end": 3119.683, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-456", "start": 3119.731, "end": 3122.253, "text": "My name is Maeve Fellerhoff, and I live in District 2.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-457", "start": 3122.884, "end": 3127.157, "text": "I came to Portland last month to begin a year of service with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-458", "start": 3127.724, "end": 3132.505, "text": "Through this program, I live on a small stipend and do nonprofit service in the Portland community full-time.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-459", "start": 3133.247, "end": 3136.2, "text": "While I'm new to Portland, I am no less impacted by this policy.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-460", "start": 3136.954, "end": 3140.148, "text": "Me and my house of volunteers live in District 2, close to the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-461", "start": 3140.581, "end": 3143.598, "text": "Some of my housemates work at placements right by the hub every day.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-462", "start": 3144.641, "end": 3146.872, "text": "I am no stranger to environmental disasters.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-463", "start": 3147.449, "end": 3154.815, "text": "3 Years ago in my home state of Ohio, a freight train derailed in East Palestine, just hours north of where I was going to school at the time.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-464", "start": 3155.248, "end": 3157.624, "text": "The fires burned for 2 consecutive days.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-465", "start": 3158.201, "end": 3162.919, "text": "Carcinogenic chemicals and gases were released into the air, soil, rivers, and groundwater.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-466", "start": 3163.658, "end": 3172.471, "text": "Officials repeatedly told residents it was safe to return home, all while tens of thousands of dead fish were washing up on their shores and chemicals were seeping into their waterways.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-467", "start": 3173.226, "end": 3181.541, "text": "Last year, a lawsuit was filed alleging that 7 people, including a 1-week infant, died due to the lingering effects of these chemicals.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-468", "start": 3182.376, "end": 3183.628, "text": "This should serve as a warning.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-469", "start": 3184.463, "end": 3189.713, "text": "In Portland, highly dangerous fuels are transported by the same old decaying trains through our city every day.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-470", "start": 3189.761, "end": 3189.857, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-471", "start": 3190.562, "end": 3195.914, "text": "The only difference is that the town in Ohio had less fuel and a population of only around 4,000.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-472", "start": 3196.475, "end": 3198.942, "text": "A derailment here in Portland would be much, much worse.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-473", "start": 3199.84, "end": 3201.987, "text": "What happened in Ohio was not an accident.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-474", "start": 3202.419, "end": 3204.037, "text": "It was a failure in regulation.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-475", "start": 3204.566, "end": 3212.193, "text": "It was what happened when legislators know the risk and choose not to act, inadvertently deciding what people and ecosystems are expendable along the way.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-476", "start": 3212.93, "end": 3217.817, "text": "Supporting the amendments to the CEI Hub policy plan is an important step to ensuring a safer Portland.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-477", "start": 3217.897, "end": 3218.073, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Juliet Twemlow" }, { "id": "cue-478", "start": 3218.924, "end": 3222.643, "text": "You have something here that I did not have back home— the opportunity to act.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-479", "start": 3223.351, "end": 3227.585, "text": "It is a privilege to have the opportunity to mitigate environmental disasters before they happen.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-480", "start": 3228.31, "end": 3232.772, "text": "Take it from someone who spent most of her young adult life fighting to prevent them and watching them happen anyway.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-481", "start": 3233.739, "end": 3235.479, "text": "You don't want to be on the other side.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-482", "start": 3236.49, "end": 3238.566, "text": "Thank you everyone for your time and work on this policy.", "speaker": "Maeve Fellerhoff" }, { "id": "cue-483", "start": 3239.71, "end": 3240.216, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-484", "start": 3243.094, "end": 3248.804, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair and members Of the committee, my name is John Vincent Rosa-Pepe.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-485", "start": 3249.079, "end": 3250.854, "text": "I live in District 3.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-486", "start": 3252.291, "end": 3258.256, "text": "I left Portland back in 1993, and I came back 3 years ago.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-487", "start": 3259.078, "end": 3271.829, "text": "And one thing that unfortunately— lots have changed, but one thing unfortunately that hadn't changed was the CEI and its danger to the community and to the environment.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-488", "start": 3271.877, "end": 3271.989, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-489", "start": 3273.117, "end": 3280.108, "text": "As other members have said, we have a chance to make a difference now, especially with the new amendments.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-490", "start": 3282.44, "end": 3284.485, "text": "We've had people today who are younger.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-491", "start": 3284.807, "end": 3288.527, "text": "I can speak a little bit for the people in their 70s.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-492", "start": 3289.461, "end": 3297.352, "text": "I, um, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act were passed in 19— I believe '73, around that time.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-493", "start": 3299.087, "end": 3311.852, "text": "And what we heard then was from industry is, oh, we can't do it, it's going to be too expensive, we have proprietary data we can't give to you, this is going to destroy our economy.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-494", "start": 3312.494, "end": 3314.63, "text": "And that hasn't proven to be the case.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-495", "start": 3315.705, "end": 3321.165, "text": "Instead, we have better rivers, better air, and you have an opportunity to do this with the CEI.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-496", "start": 3321.245, "end": 3321.951, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-497", "start": 3322.353, "end": 3322.642, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-498", "start": 3324.173, "end": 3324.663, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-499", "start": 3324.826, "end": 3325.316, "text": "Thank you all.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-500", "start": 3330.937, "end": 3346.199, "text": "Next up we have Laura Noble, Lillian Weaver, David Labby, Lori King, Kaylee Roll.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-501", "start": 3346.344, "end": 3347.517, "text": "Welcome folks, come on down.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-502", "start": 3348.381, "end": 3350.656, "text": "Hello, thanks for having me this afternoon.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-503", "start": 3351.019, "end": 3352.173, "text": "I'm Laura Montesi Noble.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-504", "start": 3353.008, "end": 3357.359, "text": "My husband and I own a floating home on the Multnomah Channel, just miles from the tanks.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-505", "start": 3358.483, "end": 3370.733, "text": "There are 15 homes, and we are mostly over 55, retired, some with health difficulties who have lived there a long time while working, raising children, and building their forever homes.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-506", "start": 3371.568, "end": 3389.331, "text": "Recently, I was informed that in the event of a fire or earthquake, families in the marina probably would not be able to escape there are no city-supported protocols or evacuation protocols for our marina or other marinas on Northwest Marina Way.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-507", "start": 3390.423, "end": 3395.274, "text": "Our street is a dead end, and Highway 30 is a 1-mile walk to get to.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-508", "start": 3396.142, "end": 3399.387, "text": "If there's a train on the railroad tracks, we won't be able to drive away.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-509", "start": 3400.479, "end": 3405.635, "text": "Linnton, our closest neighborhood's fire station service ended in, I believe, 1983.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-510", "start": 3405.7, "end": 3406.069, "text": "1983.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-511", "start": 3407.29, "end": 3415.384, "text": "The lack of safety, the lack of fire service, the lack of protection from hazardous material and poor infrastructure is frankly appalling.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-512", "start": 3416.541, "end": 3426.707, "text": "I really don't want to believe that my beloved Portland, the city that I have lived in for many, many years, would not opt for a drawdown when we are at risk.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-513", "start": 3427.446, "end": 3432.505, "text": "All of us who live on the water and the land deserve to be protected by our city's government.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-514", "start": 3432.553, "end": 3432.649, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-515", "start": 3433.801, "end": 3447.115, "text": "The white tanks running along Highway 30 are holding fuel that could one day be responsible for the destruction of land, water, animals, and citizens of Portland, and I am asking you to support the Community Coalition amendments.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-516", "start": 3447.534, "end": 3447.92, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-517", "start": 3449.128, "end": 3449.756, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-518", "start": 3452.386, "end": 3453.226, "text": "My name is Lillian Weaver.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-519", "start": 3453.532, "end": 3458.882, "text": "I'm a PhD student at PSU writing my dissertation on the CEI Hub, and I want to talk to you about 2 thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-520", "start": 3458.946, "end": 3459.764, "text": "I'd like to share a few points from my research.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-521", "start": 3460.406, "end": 3471.463, "text": "A 2019 economic analysis of hazard mitigation produced by the National Institute of Building Science, cited in the Plan for a Resilient Oregon, found that every dollar invested in hazard mitigation saves 6.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-522", "start": 3472.425, "end": 3487.076, "text": "When it comes to fuel infrastructure such as the CEI Hub, based on my research and on the scale of disaster we can expect from the hub, be it earthquake, wildfire, landslide, human error, or whatever, I expect the returns to be much higher and to far exceed the potential costs outlined in the Eco Northwest report.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-523", "start": 3487.221, "end": 3489.868, "text": "Stronger CEI Hub policy is stronger economic policy.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-524", "start": 3490.719, "end": 3493.223, "text": "Next, I want to talk about DEQ's seismic stability policy.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-525", "start": 3493.785, "end": 3495.888, "text": "It's excellent, but we can't rely on this alone.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-526", "start": 3496.257, "end": 3503.625, "text": "The 10-year timeline given for facilities to do their seismic mitigation starts once vulnerability assessments and implementation plans have been approved.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-527", 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"speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-533", "start": 3530.81, "end": 3531.77, "text": "It's a huge undertaking.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-534", "start": 3531.99, "end": 3535.62, "text": "I'm simply trying to point out that we cannot depend on seismic mitigation alone.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-535", "start": 3535.79, "end": 3542.38, "text": "Based on my research, I don't expect to see mitigation finished until we are well into the 2040s, by which time it may be too late.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-536", "start": 3542.79, "end": 3546.95, "text": "The last Cascadia earthquake was in 1700, 326 years ago.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-537", "start": 3546.95, "end": 3546.99, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Deneen Crowe" }, { "id": "cue-538", "start": 3547.482, "end": 3551.232, "text": "When it ruptured, it had been 330 years since the prior quake.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-539", "start": 3551.953, "end": 3554.293, "text": "That's like if it were to rupture in 2030.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-540", "start": 3555.254, "end": 3560.222, "text": "You have the opportunity to make our community's environment safer and healthier, and to do so in just a year or 2.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-541", "start": 3560.687, "end": 3568.042, "text": "Reducing fuel stored at the hub, not just storage capacity, and starting that timeline as soon as possible is how we take a tangible step towards impactful change.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-542", "start": 3568.475, "end": 3570.158, "text": "This cannot wait until 2036.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-543", "start": 3570.478, "end": 3571.76, "text": "I support the community amendments.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-544", "start": 3571.985, "end": 3572.321, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-545", "start": 3572.369, "end": 3572.465, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-546", "start": 3573.504, "end": 3574.174, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-547", "start": 3578.69, "end": 3579.545, "text": "Thank you, councilors.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-548", "start": 3579.593, "end": 3580.497, "text": "My name is David Labbe.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-549", "start": 3581.127, "end": 3590.911, "text": "I would like to take the time today to demonstrate why average fuel levels on— lowering average fuel levels on site is so important and why closing loopholes to expansion is so important.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-550", "start": 3591.538, "end": 3596.247, "text": "As you know, or you may know, the vast majority of tanks at the hub simply sit on the ground.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-551", "start": 3596.504, "end": 3597.275, "text": "They are not anchored.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-552", "start": 3597.939, "end": 3604.706, "text": "So that means that that the amount of fuel that's in the tank is actually determinant of what happens in an earthquake.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-553", "start": 3606.99, "end": 3607.646, "text": "That's an earthquake.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-554", "start": 3608.954, "end": 3614.413, "text": "So of course, a tank could be anchored.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-555", "start": 3615.508, "end": 3618.1, "text": "And in fact, at the Portland Airport, they are anchored.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-556", "start": 3618.245, "end": 3618.874, "text": "They have 300—.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-557", "start": 3619.068, "end": 3623.795, "text": "They have 130 pilings going down over 100 feet.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-558", "start": 3623.988, "end": 3629.663, "text": "These pilings are 12-point 12 and 3/4 in diameter and filled with cement.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-559", "start": 3630.112, "end": 3636.247, "text": "None of the old tanks at the CEI hub are anywhere near that, even though they're 50 feet above basalt.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-560", "start": 3636.89, "end": 3639.427, "text": "So of course they could do that.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-561", "start": 3639.925, "end": 3647.152, "text": "DEQ has given them the option, however, of not anchoring the tanks, but simply putting them in a container like that.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-562", "start": 3647.875, "end": 3664.583, "text": "And so when they rupture, I want you to imagine hundreds of open pools of fuel fuel that will be susceptible to flame, to fire, to explosion, to fumes, etc.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-563", "start": 3664.744, "end": 3668.729, "text": "And there is absolutely no current plan for emptying those pools.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-564", "start": 3669.227, "end": 3672.248, "text": "That will be a reality after the earthquake hits.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-565", "start": 3673.18, "end": 3676.458, "text": "So the less fuel there is at the hub, the more we are safe.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-566", "start": 3676.779, "end": 3684.845, "text": "The less expansion, the more rigid we are in terms of demanding the absolute need for expansion, the less fuel there will be at the hub.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-567", "start": 3685.474, "end": 3686.796, "text": "This is why that's so important.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-568", "start": 3687.167, "end": 3687.489, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-569", "start": 3688.393, "end": 3688.7, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-570", "start": 3693.064, "end": 3694.503, "text": "Good afternoon, city councilors.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-571", "start": 3694.713, "end": 3697.995, "text": "I'm Laurel King, and I'm speaking to you as a St. Johns resident.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-572", "start": 3699.06, "end": 3706.485, "text": "I've had the pleasure of meeting with many of you over the last months about amendments to the CEI hub, and I thank you for your dedication.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-573", "start": 3707.162, "end": 3708.173, "text": "And your collaboration.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-574", "start": 3709.311, "end": 3716.977, "text": "I haven't had the opportunity to really look at the, the amendments that were just released, and I will study them and thank you for them.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-575", "start": 3718.052, "end": 3725.333, "text": "As I see it, the heart of the community-initiated zoning code amendments is that any expansions at the hub must be justified.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-576", "start": 3725.445, "end": 3726.776, "text": "There must be guardrails.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-577", "start": 3727.61, "end": 3734.152, "text": "And, and we were thinking it must be justified by being essential to meeting fuel demands and Oregon and the Columbia River region.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-578", "start": 3734.969, "end": 3748.621, "text": "And the heart of the community Title 17 amendments is that if, and most likely when, demand in this market goes down, there must be commensurate reductions in flammable, combustible, toxic substances stored at the hub.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-579", "start": 3749.47, "end": 3759.485, "text": "Considering the existential danger that communities closest to the hub that I live in are in and have been in, the community proposals are incredibly modest.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-580", "start": 3759.533, "end": 3759.709, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-581", "start": 3760.689, "end": 3765.554, "text": "The amendments have been calibrated to thread the needle of what is possible in this legal system.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-582", "start": 3766.71, "end": 3785.079, "text": "Anything less risk-reducing than upholding these amendments, such as allowing paths to expansion in the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability amendments, would leave all Portlanders vulnerable and really would be a stomach punch to the communities most affected: Linton and the Northwest industrial neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-583", "start": 3785.576, "end": 3793.34, "text": "St. John's, Cathedral Park, Kenton, Portsmouth, University Park, Arbor Lodge, and other neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-584", "start": 3794.479, "end": 3794.624, "text": "These—.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-585", "start": 3795.201, "end": 3799.677, "text": "Many of these areas, BIPOC and working-class neighborhoods, have been sacrificed for decades.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-586", "start": 3800.094, "end": 3808.227, "text": "We have a concentration of polluting industries, brownfields, diesel pollution, and proximity to the substances in the hub.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-587", "start": 3808.708, "end": 3816.842, "text": "Council members, even if these neighborhoods are not in your district, Equity is a guiding principle of our city's comprehensive plan.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-588", "start": 3817.539, "end": 3820.344, "text": "Past environmental harms must be redressed.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-589", "start": 3821.23, "end": 3825.303, "text": "Do not yet add another blow by squandering this opportunity before us.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-590", "start": 3825.808, "end": 3826.199, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-591", "start": 3826.77, "end": 3827.206, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-592", "start": 3828.322, "end": 3828.597, "text": "Kaylee.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-593", "start": 3832.85, "end": 3834.128, "text": "Good afternoon, council members.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-594", "start": 3834.629, "end": 3835.438, "text": "My name is Kaylee Roll.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-595", "start": 3835.875, "end": 3842.248, "text": "I'm a tenant in District 4, a registered nurse that works in District 3, and I'm speaking today as a proud member of the Oregon Nurses Association.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-596", "start": 3844.283, "end": 3849.461, "text": "If there's one thing that I've learned from being a nurse for the past 13 years, it's that prevention matters.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-597", "start": 3850.358, "end": 3855.392, "text": "I am trained to think about risk before an emergency happens, not after the damage has been done.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-598", "start": 3855.745, "end": 3858.598, "text": "And that is how I believe we should be thinking about the CEOT hub.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-599", "start": 3859.432, "end": 3866.036, "text": "We've all heard about the very serious seismic risks that are contained at the hub site and how devastating the big one will be.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-600", "start": 3866.726, "end": 3871.471, "text": "But the impacts of a disaster wouldn't just remain localized at the hub site.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-601", "start": 3872.016, "end": 3887.426, "text": "It would have major impacts on the surrounding areas, which include nearby hospitals, um, that, uh, would be expected to respond, uh, in an emergency, including where my union siblings work at Legacy Emanuel and Kaiser Interstate.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-602", "start": 3887.955, "end": 3888.051, "text": "Hmm.", "speaker": "Jose Gamero Jorgensen" }, { "id": "cue-603", "start": 3888.757, "end": 3892.83, "text": "As I'm sure you're all aware, our healthcare system is already under tremendous strain.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-604", "start": 3893.246, "end": 3904.077, "text": "Not only would a disaster at the CEI hub site be a mass casualty event in itself, But it would almost certainly overwhelm the critical healthcare infrastructure needed to respond to a natural disaster like an earthquake.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-605", "start": 3904.799, "end": 3913.965, "text": "I'm thrilled that ONA, because of a resolution that we recently passed, which I will include in my written testimony, is now part of the community coalition to make the CEI hub safer.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-606", "start": 3914.366, "end": 3919.679, "text": "And we intend to use the full power of our membership to protect the health, safety, and well-being of our community.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-607", "start": 3920.241, "end": 3924.976, "text": "So I strongly urge you all to support some of these amendments to the policy proposal, which make it much stronger.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-608", "start": 3925.025, "end": 3925.249, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Laura Noble" }, { "id": "cue-609", "start": 3925.827, "end": 3934.746, "text": "At a minimum, the plan must include ensuring that there are real safety and evacuation blueprints in place, which should be developed by the people that would actually have to use them.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-610", "start": 3935.211, "end": 3941.981, "text": "But most importantly, increasing safety and reducing risk requires that the amount of fuel stored at the hub site is drastically reduced.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-611", "start": 3942.43, "end": 3945.831, "text": "Healthcare workers know that when we can prevent harm, we have to try.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-612", "start": 3946.441, "end": 3951.462, "text": "Please protect your constituents, our neighbors, and our environment that we all love and cherish over the profits of fuel companies.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-613", "start": 3951.51, "end": 3952.055, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Kaylee Roll" }, { "id": "cue-614", "start": 3952.378, "end": 3955.88, "text": "Thank you all so much for being here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-615", "start": 3957.058, "end": 3969.498, "text": "Next up we have Richard March, Patricia Kohlberg, Mark D'Arienzo, Howard Bell, Cassie Cohen.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-616", "start": 3975.1, "end": 3975.407, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-617", "start": 3977.545, "end": 3978.501, "text": "Uh, good afternoon.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-618", "start": 3978.614, "end": 3984.397, "text": "My name is Patricia Kohlberg and I'm here on behalf of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-619", "start": 3985.055, "end": 3994.423, "text": "I have already submitted a much more detailed and referenced version of my summary comments here today, including a number of policy options.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-620", "start": 3995.242, "end": 4002.557, "text": "I have very serious concerns about Portland positioning itself as an export hub for renewable diesel.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-621", "start": 4003.103, "end": 4013.12, "text": "Although renewable diesel is promoted as a climate-friendly and public health protective A substantial body of literature disputes those claims.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-622", "start": 4013.699, "end": 4019.884, "text": "First of all, different feedstocks for renewable diesel have very different effects.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-623", "start": 4020.462, "end": 4037.133, "text": "The so-called high-carbon-intensity feedstocks like soybean and palm oil emit as much or more greenhouse gases as petroleum diesel and are also associated with environmental degradation, and human rights abuses.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-624", "start": 4037.871, "end": 4046.911, "text": "But demand for low carbon intensity feedstocks is predicted to outstrip supply as early as 2035.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-625", "start": 4047.568, "end": 4056.369, "text": "Furthermore, the metric that we know as carbon intensity is not something you want to hang your policy hat on.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-626", "start": 4056.946, "end": 4062.123, "text": "Currently, dozens of models are used to calculate carbon intensity.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-627", "start": 4062.733, "end": 4067.046, "text": "For renewable diesel, and their results are all over the map.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-628", "start": 4067.623, "end": 4079.665, "text": "This means that no one can say with certainty what the climate effects of renewable diesel from seed oil feedstocks are in 2026, much less in years to come.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-629", "start": 4080.37, "end": 4094.306, "text": "But a scientific study did show that growth of renewable diesel has led to demonstrably increased deforestation in the Global South, as well as big increases in greenhouse gases.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-630", "start": 4094.741, "end": 4097.624, "text": "This is not a dynamic we want to promote.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-631", "start": 4098.6, "end": 4106.762, "text": "We should instead imagine the future we want and deploy every policy option we can to create that future.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-632", "start": 4106.907, "end": 4107.325, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-633", "start": 4107.775, "end": 4108.321, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-634", "start": 4110.684, "end": 4111.231, "text": "Whoever wants to go?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-635", "start": 4114.446, "end": 4115.668, "text": "Okay, um, I'll go.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-636", "start": 4115.973, "end": 4118.149, "text": "Um, Hello, councilors.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-637", "start": 4118.246, "end": 4119.068, "text": "Thank you for having me.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-638", "start": 4119.149, "end": 4120.6, "text": "My name is Richard March.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-639", "start": 4120.664, "end": 4121.745, "text": "I'm from District 3.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-640", "start": 4122.68, "end": 4141.519, "text": "I realize that the amendments have changed somewhat in the course of the night, and my comments though will refer to the community coalition's amendments, and those elements are still what I'm supporting.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-641", "start": 4142.194, "end": 4144.401, "text": "I urge you to support those.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-642", "start": 4144.468, "end": 4165.54, "text": "The coalition amendments strengthen the initial proposal by remedying ambiguous language and closing loopholes to ensure that one, the city's intent is indisputable, that the city and CEI hub facilities are fully accountable, and that risk-reducing guardrails are enforceable.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-643", "start": 4165.716, "end": 4170.636, "text": "I want to highlight how the coalition amendments to the zoning code do this.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-644", "start": 4171.228, "end": 4173.199, "text": "Most importantly, they replace.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-645", "start": 4173.279, "end": 4173.407, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-646", "start": 4173.471, "end": 4181.548, "text": "The ordinance replaces 3 disconnected and uneven expansion review processes with one inclusive review protocol.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-647", "start": 4181.788, "end": 4181.916, "text": "Why?", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-648", "start": 4182.67, "end": 4186.58, "text": "First, fuel handling is an integrated process.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-649", "start": 4187.093, "end": 4191.82, "text": "Tanks are connected to transloading infrastructure and vice versa.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-650", "start": 4192.301, "end": 4198.279, "text": "Increasing capacity in one part of the system will necessarily affect the other parts of the system.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-651", "start": 4198.872, "end": 4219.581, "text": "The coalition's inclusive review criteria requires that applications for second, by preventing unneeded expansion means preventing unneeded risk.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-652", "start": 4220.194, "end": 4229.312, "text": "Applicants for increased storage infrastructure should demonstrate need, and there must not be ambiguity about what that means.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-653", "start": 4229.842, "end": 4248.566, "text": "The coalition's review criteria prevents unnecessary risk by specifying that expansion must be demonstrated need that can't be met elsewhere and prevents unnecessary expansion by linking unmet need to the CEI Hub's existing service area.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-654", "start": 4249.358, "end": 4249.682, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "David Labbe" }, { "id": "cue-655", "start": 4250.846, "end": 4254.548, "text": "I'll go.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-656", "start": 4254.855, "end": 4255.276, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-657", "start": 4255.599, "end": 4256.941, "text": "Good afternoon, council members.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-658", "start": 4257.539, "end": 4264.393, "text": "My name is Howard Bell, business manager for OPIU Local 11, and I'm here representing working people and the construction industry.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-659", "start": 4265.146, "end": 4268.192, "text": "I want to talk about economic prosperity and fuel capacity.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-660", "start": 4268.833, "end": 4277.874, "text": "Governor Kotek's Prosperity Council has made it clear that Oregon needs to retain businesses, attract investment, create good-paying jobs, and improve our business climate.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-661", "start": 4278.531, "end": 4282.009, "text": "Those goals have to be considered in the CEI Hub discussion.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-662", "start": 4282.939, "end": 4289.719, "text": "We already are facing a difficult economic environment, and the construction industry depends on reliable and affordable fuel.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-663", "start": 4290.376, "end": 4295.248, "text": "Our excavators, loaders, cranes, graders, trucks, and other heavy equipment cannot operate without it.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-664", "start": 4296.145, "end": 4301.257, "text": "If we reduce fuel capacity, we risk increasing fuel costs and reducing reliability.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-665", "start": 4301.689, "end": 4309.75, "text": "That ultimately makes construction more expensive, more projects harder to finance, and can mean fewer hours and fewer opportunities for Oregon workers.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-666", "start": 4310.423, "end": 4316.239, "text": "We should absolutely improve seismic safety and protect our communities, but reducing fuel capacity should not be the objective.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-667", "start": 4317.023, "end": 4318.058, "text": "There is another path.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-668", "start": 4318.576, "end": 4321.78, "text": "Look at the NXT Clean Fuels project in Clackamas.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-669", "start": 4321.828, "end": 4329.96, "text": "It proposes to take waste products like used cooking oil and other organic materials and turning them into renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-670", "start": 4331.82, "end": 4339.527, "text": "The project represents billions of dollars of private investment, thousands of construction jobs, and the potential to reduce millions of metric tons of carbon emissions.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-671", "start": 4340.297, "end": 4343.378, "text": "That is the kind of economic development Oregon should be encouraging.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-672", "start": 4343.903, "end": 4348.047, "text": "We don't have to choose between economic prosperity and reducing carbon emissions.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-673", "start": 4348.706, "end": 4357.765, "text": "We can modernize our fuel infrastructure, improve seismic resilience, maintain adequate fuel capacity, and at the same time invest in cleaner fuels and technologies.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-674", "start": 4358.183, "end": 4362.503, "text": "If we want Oregon to be business-friendly, we need the energy infrastructure to support businesses.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-675", "start": 4363.194, "end": 4365.893, "text": "If we want construction jobs, we need fuel to run the equipment.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-676", "start": 4366.535, "end": 4371.739, "text": "And if we want to reduce carbon emissions, let's invest in projects that actually produce cleaner fuels and create Oregon jobs.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-677", "start": 4372.442, "end": 4375.584, "text": "So I have 2 letters here from the Department of Energy, right?", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-678", "start": 4375.664, "end": 4380.171, "text": "And they're asking you to make it safer, but don't reduce the capacity.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-679", "start": 4380.236, "end": 4380.996, "text": "That's a problem.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-680", "start": 4381.061, "end": 4383.601, "text": "And the construction trades are asking you to follow that advice.", "speaker": "Howard Bell" }, { "id": "cue-681", "start": 4383.795, "end": 4384.07, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "John Vincent Rosa-Pepe" }, { "id": "cue-682", "start": 4384.588, "end": 4385.186, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-683", "start": 4388.902, "end": 4391.049, "text": "Hi, my name is Cassie Cohen.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-684", "start": 4391.097, "end": 4407.696, "text": "I'm the executive director of Portland Harbor Community Coalition, a second-generation Portlander, and a mother whose 11-year-old's first proud testimony was actually on this EEI Hub, and who gave me a pass today to not pick her up at school so I could testify today.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-685", "start": 4408.949, "end": 4416.661, "text": "Thank you, councilors who are open to moving forward amendments, uh, that make this EEI Hub the safest it can be for our communities and environment.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-686", "start": 4417.384, "end": 4425.096, "text": "We are 1.5 years away from the beginning of an estimated 13-year-long high-level cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund site.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-687", "start": 4425.818, "end": 4435.712, "text": "This cleanup will be the most complex and likely the most expensive in the nation, and City of Portland ratepayers are also contributing to the cost.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-688", "start": 4435.921, "end": 4450.295, "text": "We urge you to not waste ratepayer contributions and risk recontamination of the Willamette River in what is anticipated to be the largest EI Hub cumulative spill ever recorded in human history if the earthquake hits.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-689", "start": 4451.578, "end": 4453.519, "text": "Is this what Portland should be remembered for?", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-690", "start": 4454.721, "end": 4461.553, "text": "Immediate safety is critical for all living beings and for the health of the rivers and survival of endangered species moving forward.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-691", "start": 4462.724, "end": 4480.99, "text": "I want to share that PHCC served on DEQ's Fuel Tank Seismic Stability Program Rules Advisory Council, as well as the current Rules Advisory Council, creating rules to implement House Bill 4100, holding CEUs CEI Hub operators financially responsible for spills and leaks.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-692", "start": 4481.808, "end": 4488.754, "text": "Um, I want to say, Councilor Novick and other councilors, we do not need to wait 10 years for operators to reduce storage of fuel.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-693", "start": 4489.524, "end": 4490.358, "text": "It's not necessary.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-694", "start": 4490.406, "end": 4508.668, "text": "In fact, CEI Hub operators will save resources and increase efficiency by addressing multiple issues simultaneously without delay— earthquake retrofits, reducing storage tank capacity, reducing fuels and securing funds for future leaks and spills.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-695", "start": 4509.262, "end": 4519.1, "text": "Eventually, we must get to a just transition to clean green energy sources devoid of renewable fuels that remain unsafe for humans and the environment.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-696", "start": 4519.198, "end": 4519.49, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-697", "start": 4520.09, "end": 4520.706, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-698", "start": 4522.81, "end": 4524.251, "text": "Well, thank you for the opportunity to testify.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-699", "start": 4524.396, "end": 4525.821, "text": "My name is Mark D'Arienzo.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-700", "start": 4526.307, "end": 4534.383, "text": "I'm a retired geologist with a specialty in earthquakes and tsunamis and also a member of Climate Jobs a committee, the Environmental Committee of Jobs with Justice.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-701", "start": 4534.96, "end": 4535.874, "text": "I want to make 3 points.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-702", "start": 4536.644, "end": 4546.603, "text": "A magnitude 9 subduction zone earthquake will shake the Portland area for 5 to 7 minutes, causing landslides on steep slopes and liquefaction along the Willamette River where the CIHAB is located.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-703", "start": 4546.763, "end": 4552.135, "text": "It will be followed by sizable aftershocks over several months, potentially triggering even local faults.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-704", "start": 4553.081, "end": 4557.315, "text": "It is unknown how the tanks and associated pipelines and proposed containment structures will hold up.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-705", "start": 4557.363, "end": 4557.588, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-706", "start": 4557.46, "end": 4566.897, "text": "There's a good chance that they will fail, releasing toxic fuels into the air and water and trigger fires unless retrofitted or built to very high seismic standards.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-707", "start": 4567.748, "end": 4571.872, "text": "Even if the containment structures hold or release fuels, the fuels could be easily ignited.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-708", "start": 4572.659, "end": 4580.812, "text": "The potential is also high that rail cars carrying toxic liquids, fuels to the hub that travel through the city will derail and release their toxic fuels.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-709", "start": 4581.647, "end": 4592.361, "text": "Given these unknowns and potentials, The wisest course, in my opinion, for the city to take would be to transition equitably and rapidly as possible away from these toxic liquid fuels to clean energy.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-710", "start": 4593.179, "end": 4603.988, "text": "Changing zoning codes, updating comprehensive plans, drawing down tanks, or dealing with franchise agreements are all well and good, but too slow to face the urgency of the climate crisis we are in.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-711", "start": 4604.646, "end": 4605.031, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mark D'Arienzo" }, { "id": "cue-712", "start": 4606.025, "end": 4606.522, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-713", "start": 4606.586, "end": 4606.939, "text": "Thank you all.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-714", "start": 4611.524, "end": 4620.016, "text": "Next up we have Jamarion Malley, Jenny O'Connor, Anna Tijerina Schino, Jonathan Fink, Daniel Eisenbeiss.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-715", "start": 4622.9, "end": 4623.779, "text": "Jamarion, go ahead.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-716", "start": 4625.5, "end": 4627.359, "text": "Hello, um, how we doing, councilors?", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-717", "start": 4627.553, "end": 4630.351, "text": "First, I'd like to thank you for your time and consideration.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-718", "start": 4630.868, "end": 4632.21, "text": "My name is Jamarion Malley.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-719", "start": 4632.873, "end": 4648.645, "text": "I'm the campaign director at Portland Harbor Community Secondly, I'd like to request that all councilors vote in favor of the community-endorsed CEI Hub amendments to address ongoing environmental injustices that have plagued my family and community for far too long.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-720", "start": 4650.18, "end": 4664.238, "text": "PHCC, our partner organizations, and community members have dedicated efforts and gone on other ongoing efforts documenting and reducing the severe salmon habitat voids Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-721", "start": 4664.286, "end": 4669.845, "text": "The city has made significant investments in the Willamette River by tracking critical salmon habitats.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-722", "start": 4670.648, "end": 4686.439, "text": "In the case of catastrophe, efforts such as these and many more will go to waste, along with immense implications on the planned Superfund cleanup, at a cost no one can bear— not humans, not the environment, the habitat, the city, nor the industry.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-723", "start": 4687.756, "end": 4693.358, "text": "I do not believe that it would be too cumbersome for BPS to monitor annual Uh, capacity reduction.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-724", "start": 4693.779, "end": 4697.561, "text": "Entities already have to report tank condition and average fill levels.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-725", "start": 4698.68, "end": 4706.845, "text": "The reduction would reduce maximum legal fills but should keep all reporting the same within the new guidelines.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-726", "start": 4707.879, "end": 4713.997, "text": "BPS could seek a partnership agreement with other regulators that already monitor maximum fill levels.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-727", "start": 4715.584, "end": 4746.829, "text": "So just to give a further drive on what we bring from the community and what we're looking for within these amendments is, you know, measurable reduction in storage volume and immediate science-based drawdown, increased safety for environmental and human health, foolproof zoning codes tailored for the purpose of ensuring utmost safety, transparency, and acknowledgement of our risk of current zoning presents.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-728", "start": 4748.102, "end": 4750.666, "text": "This is what we seek your consideration in.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-729", "start": 4751.72, "end": 4753.389, "text": "Um, thank you and have a good day.", "speaker": "Jamarion Malley" }, { "id": "cue-730", "start": 4754.733, "end": 4755.317, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-731", "start": 4759.577, "end": 4760.655, "text": "Whoever wants to go, jump on in.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-732", "start": 4762.974, "end": 4767.766, "text": "Good afternoon, my name is Jenny O'Connor and I live in District 4.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-733", "start": 4768.866, "end": 4777.301, "text": "I am part of the CEI Hub Community coalition that's worked with BPS on the CEI Hub policy plan.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-734", "start": 4778.393, "end": 4790.665, "text": "I've been focused on emergency preparedness, which, which has been, has been brought up by several people before us, but it hasn't really been focused on.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-735", "start": 4791.725, "end": 4808.166, "text": "As I was looking through the recommended draft, I came to the proposed In the proposed ordinance 2026-113, it provides a starting point to coordinate an emergency response plan.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-736", "start": 4809.017, "end": 4828.225, "text": "Specifically, Directive 7 directs, which is a council directive, directs Portland Permitting and Development, PPEM, and Portland Fire and Rescue to continue collaboration and coordination to support public health and natural hazard risk reduction in CEHM.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-737", "start": 4828.578, "end": 4841.83, "text": "And this speaks specifically, Commissioner— or Councilman Kanal, to what you said last week about how, you know, what else are we doing besides these amendments.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-738", "start": 4842.182, "end": 4858.646, "text": "I'm proposing that you take the authority that's given to you in this ordinance, take it further instead of just coordinating that you direct staff to implement an emergency response plan.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-739", "start": 4859.488, "end": 4876.982, "text": "If you look through pages 96 through 101 in the recommended draft, there's a whole long list of all the things that's been identified by city staff and by other agencies of actions and proposals that need to be done.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-740", "start": 4877.613, "end": 4890.365, "text": "To prevent, as a preventative, and to be able to respond to an emergency that the earthquake, when it comes, we can respond to.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-741", "start": 4890.992, "end": 4898.045, "text": "So therefore, I've already asked you to take the step to direct the staff to do this with PPAM in the lead.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-742", "start": 4898.384, "end": 4898.756, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-743", "start": 4898.869, "end": 4901.923, "text": "And to make sure there's funding for this work to be done.", "speaker": "Jenny O'Connor" }, { "id": "cue-744", "start": 4902.182, "end": 4902.893, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-745", "start": 4903.087, "end": 4903.346, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Diane Meisenhelter" }, { "id": "cue-746", "start": 4903.666, "end": 4903.925, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-747", "start": 4908.128, "end": 4911.975, "text": "Council President Dunphy and members of council, for the record, I am Dan Eisenbeis.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-748", "start": 4912.104, "end": 4916.138, "text": "I'm a registered lobbyist for the Port of Portland where I serve as regional affairs manager.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-749", "start": 4916.787, "end": 4919.058, "text": "Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments today.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-750", "start": 4919.809, "end": 4923.746, "text": "You will also find written testimony from the port's executive director, Curtis Robinhold.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-751", "start": 4924.726, "end": 4931.058, "text": "The port is a public agency whose mission is to build shared prosperity for our region through travel, trade, and economic development.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-752", "start": 4932.196, "end": 4939.426, "text": "We operate major economic engines, including 3 marine terminals, 6 industrial parks, and 3 airports, including PDX.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-753", "start": 4940.31, "end": 4951.365, "text": "Over 10,000 people work at PDX, which serves 18.5 million passengers, as well as exports of high-value Oregon goods like semiconductors, footwear air soles, and berries.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-754", "start": 4952.201, "end": 4956.908, "text": "We project significant growth in aircraft operations and jet fuel demand over the next 20 years.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-755", "start": 4956.973, "end": 4957.085, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-756", "start": 4958.065, "end": 4963.154, "text": "The Federal Energy Information Administration also projects growing jet fuel demand in the broader Pacific region.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-757", "start": 4964.486, "end": 4977.489, "text": "This is reflected in the recent PDX terminal expansion, airlines' work underway to rebuild the PDX fuel, fuel tank farm, and with this council's support, Alaska Airlines building its first wide-body maintenance hangar on the West Coast.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-758", "start": 4978.838, "end": 4983.847, "text": "Airlines also started making purchases of sustainable aviation fuel for use at PDX last fall.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-759", "start": 4983.911, "end": 4984.055, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-760", "start": 4985.194, "end": 4992.265, "text": "PDX receives all of its jet fuel via pipeline from the CEI Hub and is dependent on adequate storage and blending capacity in the hub.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-761", "start": 4993.212, "end": 5005.527, "text": "The port supports addressing seismic vulnerability while maintaining the security of energy supplies, protecting economic competitiveness, and advancing climate goals, particularly in hard-to-decarbonize transportation sectors.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-762", "start": 5006.361, "end": 5013.925, "text": "We respectfully urge Council to adopt policy that does not create doubt or uncertainty for continued adequate aviation fuel supply.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-763", "start": 5015.02, "end": 5030.719, "text": "We ask that you retain provisions to exempt aviation fuel from drawdown requirements in the hub, ensure that terminals have the flexibility to add capacity specifically for aviation fuel, and maintain an exception for facilities like the PDX Tank Farm.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-764", "start": 5031.404, "end": 5032.61, "text": "Thank you for your consideration.", "speaker": "Dan Eisenbeis" }, { "id": "cue-765", "start": 5033.295, "end": 5033.866, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-766", "start": 5037.241, "end": 5038.267, "text": "Good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-767", "start": 5038.771, "end": 5040.253, "text": "My name is Ana Tijerinez Quino.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-768", "start": 5040.351, "end": 5050.174, "text": "I'm a civil engineer, a resident of Mill Milwaukee, Oregon, and I worked on my master's research on the CEI Hub specifically in civil engineering.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-769", "start": 5050.463, "end": 5054.46, "text": "I'm here today to support the proposed planning updates and the reduction in fuel storage capacity at the hub.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-770", "start": 5055.263, "end": 5058.522, "text": "The CEI Hub is a massive and difficult problem to fully comprehend.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-771", "start": 5059.036, "end": 5067.641, "text": "It sits on loose and weak soils next to our largest population center, and it is expected to undergo significant deformations during a major earthquake.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-772", "start": 5068.17, "end": 5069.599, "text": "How significant are these deformations?", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-773", "start": 5069.68, "end": 5070.08, "text": "What are the implications?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-774", "start": 5070.176, "end": 5078.288, "text": "Well, various studies have estimated expected ground movements at the hub, which range from 1 meter to 10 meters during a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-775", "start": 5078.672, "end": 5080.307, "text": "That is just the base of the problem.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-776", "start": 5080.772, "end": 5084.059, "text": "But this isn't just about whether the ground will stay stable.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-777", "start": 5084.155, "end": 5087.088, "text": "It's about whether ATAN can withstand, withstand such an earthquake.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-778", "start": 5087.729, "end": 5090.631, "text": "The amount of fuel in a tank affects the demands on that tank.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-779", "start": 5091.112, "end": 5096.081, "text": "Lower fill levels generally mean lower seismic demands, including lower overturning moments and base shear effects.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-780", "start": 5096.129, "end": 5096.225, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-781", "start": 5096.803, "end": 5099.961, "text": "And of course, less fuel available to be released if something does fail.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-782", "start": 5100.875, "end": 5102.928, "text": "The potential consequences are enormous.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-783", "start": 5103.457, "end": 5111.875, "text": "Even conservative CEI hub spill scenarios would likely be larger than the 134 million gallons released in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-784", "start": 5112.757, "end": 5121.576, "text": "And even once we make secondary containment resilient enough to hold that fuel, containment does not mean that fuel will be usable or free of hazards after a major earthquake.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-785", "start": 5122.041, "end": 5127.733, "text": "Facilities will be dealing with damaged infrastructure, disrupted power and transportation, aftershocks, and potential ignition sources.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-786", "start": 5128.374, "end": 5133.393, "text": "That is why I believe strongly that this requires an everything and all approach and solution.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-787", "start": 5134.002, "end": 5144.664, "text": "We need the seismic stability work, we need resilient containment, we need emergency planning, and we also need to reduce the amount of fuel concentrated in this one extremely hazardous location of our state.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-788", "start": 5145.145, "end": 5147.021, "text": "I recognize that Portland cannot do this alone.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-789", "start": 5147.39, "end": 5152.777, "text": "Oregon needs a statewide effort to distribute our fuel supply and reduce our dependence on this concentrated location.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-790", "start": 5152.825, "end": 5152.921, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Rebecca Dobert" }, { "id": "cue-791", "start": 5153.563, "end": 5155.474, "text": "But it also doesn't mean Portland should wait.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-792", "start": 5156.052, "end": 5158.973, "text": "The proposed capacity reduction is the lever that the city can pull now.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-793", "start": 5159.583, "end": 5169.537, "text": "It doesn't solve the entire problem, and it isn't a replacement for seismic upgrades, but it is one piece of a larger strategy to reduce both the demands on these facilities and the consequences of a catastrophic earthquake.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-794", "start": 5170.002, "end": 5175.38, "text": "As an engineer, I don't think it's fair to ask for one single intervention to solve a problem this large.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-795", "start": 5175.701, "end": 5184.934, "text": "That's why I support the planning updates and encourage the council to move them forward while continuing to push for the broader state and regional effort that will ultimately be thank you very much.", "speaker": "Ana Tijerina Schino" }, { "id": "cue-796", "start": 5186.533, "end": 5190.455, "text": "Yes, uh, thank you, Mayor Wilson and council members.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-797", "start": 5191.586, "end": 5192.649, "text": "My name is Jonathan Fink.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-798", "start": 5192.713, "end": 5194.436, "text": "I'm a geology professor at PSU.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-799", "start": 5195.128, "end": 5204.511, "text": "I'm co-investigator on a National Science Foundation grant about cascading hazards, and I'm former chair of the National Academy of Sciences panel on the future of wildfires in the West.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-800", "start": 5205.125, "end": 5207.969, "text": "I urge you to pass the 2 items under consideration today.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-801", "start": 5208.776, "end": 5217.573, "text": "My research has focused on a dangerous blind spot, the bidirectional fire risk between the CEI hub, Forest Park, and Portland's urban forest canopy.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-802", "start": 5218.407, "end": 5220.378, "text": "Forest Park is not an isolated ridge.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-803", "start": 5220.666, "end": 5230.265, "text": "It's part of a continuous greenbelt connecting directly into Washington Park, Markham Nature Park, OHSU, and residential districts in Northwest and Southwest Portland.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-804", "start": 5231.05, "end": 5234.559, "text": "Crucially, this threat works in both directions and does not require an earthquake.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-805", "start": 5234.607, "end": 5234.735, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-806", "start": 5235.874, "end": 5252.045, "text": "While a fuel tank explosion at the hub will shower embers into Forest Park, a summer wildland fire starting in the canopy will blow heat and embers downhill directly onto the CEI hub's unreinforced fuel tanks, causing an industrial catastrophe completely independent of seismic activity.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-807", "start": 5252.88, "end": 5258.462, "text": "As seen last month in Spokane, wind-driven urban wildfires leap miles ahead via airborne embers.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-808", "start": 5259.297, "end": 5272.209, "text": "In Northwest Portland, a canopy fire will choke Highway 30, Germantown Road, and Cornell Road within minutes, trapping hundreds to thousands of people between burning slopes and an impassable riverfront while municipal water pressure fails.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-809", "start": 5273.049, "end": 5281.032, "text": "To prevent an unmanageable conflagration and multi-decadal damage at the hub, please adopt these code amendments.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-810", "start": 5281.534, "end": 5281.874, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jonathan Fink" }, { "id": "cue-811", "start": 5282.991, "end": 5283.574, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-812", "start": 5283.881, "end": 5284.61, "text": "Thank you all for being here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-813", "start": 5287.402, "end": 5291.057, "text": "Next up, we have Robert McCullough, Michael Weisdorf, Max Brumm,.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-814", "start": 5295.139, "end": 5299.408, "text": "And colleagues and those watching at home, we'll get through this next panel, then we're going to take a 10-minute break.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-815", "start": 5301.427, "end": 5304.828, "text": "So thanks, folks, coming on down, and then thanks for everybody's patience.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-816", "start": 5306.893, "end": 5308.502, "text": "Whoever wants to go first, jump on in.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-817", "start": 5310.02, "end": 5310.7, "text": "I'll go first.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-818", "start": 5311.575, "end": 5312.239, "text": "I say yes.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-819", "start": 5312.385, "end": 5313.017, "text": "Bonnie McKinley.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-820", "start": 5313.454, "end": 5319.811, "text": "I say yes to the Community Coalition's amendments, and thank you to the council's midnight oil amenders.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-821", "start": 5320.407, "end": 5329.247, "text": "The message throughout the council work session was that the fuel needs of Oregonians will not be compromised by the CEI Hub policy project directives.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-822", "start": 5329.766, "end": 5339.885, "text": "Near the close, close of the work session, Councilor Kanal said, quote, I am not interested in how readily available fuel is in a world in which thousands of Portlanders are dead.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-823", "start": 5340.478, "end": 5345.015, "text": "I think we are living beings before we are consumers of fuel and anything else.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-824", "start": 5345.528, "end": 5348.333, "text": "There is no economy without people, unquote.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-825", "start": 5348.653, "end": 5350.353, "text": "It's hard to disagree with his words.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-826", "start": 5350.898, "end": 5353.559, "text": "We can lessen the fuel needs of Oregonians.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-827", "start": 5354.024, "end": 5358.881, "text": "Portlanders and fellow Oregonians could do a great deal to prevent the loss of lives.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-828", "start": 5359.313, "end": 5366.367, "text": "But how can Oregonians be asked to limit their fuel use if they know nothing about the impending risk of the CI Hub?", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-829", "start": 5366.832, "end": 5368.675, "text": "The vast majority of people do not know.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-830", "start": 5368.723, "end": 5368.835, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-831", "start": 5369.412, "end": 5372.666, "text": "We must inform people about Oregon's scariest secret.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-832", "start": 5373.259, "end": 5382.556, "text": "We need public media campaigns to point out the direct link between hub risk reduction and limiting consumption and the use of fuels for transport.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-833", "start": 5383.182, "end": 5392.687, "text": "Oregonians, individuals and businesses, should receive public service announcements about the CEI hub and how we can collectively act on reducing its risks.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-834", "start": 5393.36, "end": 5396.085, "text": "With the knowledge of the safety and economic threats.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-835", "start": 5396.23, "end": 5404.331, "text": "From the CEI Hub and remedial actions, we can decrease fuel needs while we transition to more danger-free energy sources.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-836", "start": 5404.828, "end": 5407.266, "text": "The people of Oregon have a right to know.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-837", "start": 5408.197, "end": 5432.679, "text": "Chris Voss, Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management Director, has said, quote, the CEI Hub poses a risk to Portland during an earthquake unparalleled anywhere else in the U.S. Let's let the people of Portland and all of Oregon know about the CEI Hub and give them the means to do something about it.", "speaker": "Bonnie McKinley" }, { "id": "cue-838", "start": 5438.9, "end": 5440.436, "text": "Hi, my name is Lynn Handlin.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-839", "start": 5440.776, "end": 5447.424, "text": "Um, please support the CEI Hub community amendments, green amendments, uh, not entirely sure there.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-840", "start": 5447.57, "end": 5449.783, "text": "I, I I let y'all sort that out.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-841", "start": 5451.065, "end": 5457.873, "text": "BPS refers to the importance of economic prosperity, and a couple of the presenters have talked about economic prosperity.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-842", "start": 5458.098, "end": 5458.77, "text": "I agree.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-843", "start": 5459.539, "end": 5465.13, "text": "Economic prosperity for all Portlanders, not multinational corporations.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-844", "start": 5465.723, "end": 5476.857, "text": "The impact on economic prosperity will be catastrophic when the big one hits if the city does not start acting now to shrink the disaster in the making that is the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-845", "start": 5477.482, "end": 5485.768, "text": "If you do nothing, the main economic Activity will be industrial disaster cleanup and retrieval and burial operations.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-846", "start": 5486.633, "end": 5487.804, "text": "And who will pay for that?", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-847", "start": 5488.701, "end": 5492.372, "text": "The final ticket price of the Deepwater Horizon spill was over $60 billion.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-848", "start": 5492.484, "end": 5499.185, "text": "When the expected earthquake hits the CEI hub, disaster costs will likely be greater, certainly in the billions.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-849", "start": 5499.842, "end": 5502.359, "text": "Does the city have some spare billions laying around?", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-850", "start": 5502.647, "end": 5503.353, "text": "Probably not.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-851", "start": 5504.667, "end": 5513.079, "text": "A good chunk of the cost will be carried by people who live here, small businesses, local governments, those who depend on the river for their livelihoods, Wildlife.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-852", "start": 5513.547, "end": 5516.581, "text": "I think you all get the picture, and it is not a pretty one.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-853", "start": 5517.727, "end": 5526.755, "text": "The economic impact to the rest of the state will also be severe since the fuel they need will be in the river, spilled on the land, or up in flames.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-854", "start": 5527.418, "end": 5536.664, "text": "There are current economic costs as well, and I don't think I have time to get into that because there's also climate change.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-855", "start": 5537.456, "end": 5541.437, "text": "There is no business on a dead planet, and we're heading there fast.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-856", "start": 5541.983, "end": 5549.636, "text": "We need to act now and do everything possible to reduce carbon emissions, electrify, and use less so we can shrink the hub.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-857", "start": 5550.298, "end": 5555.067, "text": "I'm interested in the Novick 3 amendment.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-858", "start": 5556.975, "end": 5562.934, "text": "I want to hear more and need to work with PCF, but I agree with the goal.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-859", "start": 5563.435, "end": 5570.138, "text": "The CEI hub must begin drawing down measured by fuel volume, not capacity now, not 10 years from now.", "speaker": "Lynn Handlen" }, { "id": "cue-860", "start": 5570.191, "end": 5570.387, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-861", "start": 5571.836, "end": 5572.561, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-862", "start": 5573.189, "end": 5573.656, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-863", "start": 5574.817, "end": 5575.252, "text": "Whoever wants to go.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-864", "start": 5576.831, "end": 5578.265, "text": "My name is Robert McCullough.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-865", "start": 5578.507, "end": 5579.715, "text": "I am an economist.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-866", "start": 5580.3, "end": 5584.164, "text": "I am the principal of a successful consulting firm based here in Portland.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-867", "start": 5584.985, "end": 5589.509, "text": "I know a number of you very well— Loretta, Steve, Mitch, and Olivia.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-868", "start": 5589.589, "end": 5590.636, "text": "The others I've not met.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-869", "start": 5590.716, "end": 5592.165, "text": "I hope to meet you in the future.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-870", "start": 5593.196, "end": 5596.287, "text": "I was interested to see the citizens identify their districts.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-871", "start": 5597.178, "end": 5607.09, "text": "But as we learned from Dr. Fink, the last wildfire, the Old Trail in Spokane, was significantly different and massive.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-872", "start": 5607.283, "end": 5613.616, "text": "In fact, it moved 5 miles in the first day across urban landscape.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-873", "start": 5614.244, "end": 5617.478, "text": "That would take you from the Zenith Terminal to PDX.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-874", "start": 5619.022, "end": 5621.21, "text": "So this is a whole different world we're living in.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-875", "start": 5622.228, "end": 5625.098, "text": "Just 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5664.478, "text": "You are the government.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-881", "start": 5664.799, "end": 5666.358, "text": "The government can collect data.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-882", "start": 5667.788, "end": 5670.76, "text": "The antitrust says they shouldn't exchange it.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-883", "start": 5671.981, "end": 5675.194, "text": "So bottom line is we need the data.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-884", "start": 5675.965, "end": 5677.844, "text": "Policies without data are ineffective.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-885", "start": 5678.487, "end": 5680.816, "text": "Enforcement without data is ineffective.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-886", "start": 5681.748, "end": 5688.393, "text": "Counting on firms To follow rules that we cannot watch does not work.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-887", "start": 5689.33, "end": 5690.848, "text": "We've seen that in multiple cases.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-888", "start": 5692.273, "end": 5696.52, "text": "2 Separate antitrust settlements in California were based on this.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-889", "start": 5697.602, "end": 5701.367, "text": "So getting the most data as quickly as possible is critical.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-890", "start": 5701.642, "end": 5702.354, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-891", "start": 5704.069, "end": 5704.927, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-892", "start": 5707.322, "end": 5708.026, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-893", "start": 5708.485, "end": 5709.795, "text": "My name is Michael Meisdorf.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-894", "start": 5710.292, "end": 5714.557, "text": "I use he/him pronouns, and I am an analyst at McCullough Research as 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components.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-899", "start": 5759.143, "end": 5760.363, "text": "The next sentence is in bold.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-900", "start": 5761.15, "end": 5769.406, "text": "Uncertainty in these assumptions limit the use of the model to evaluate potential economic consequences of the proposed regulations.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-901", "start": 5770.93, "end": 5772.666, "text": "That means it doesn't tell you anything.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-902", "start": 5775.539, "end": 5780.532, "text": "Technical memorandum from Parametrics published November of last year.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-903", "start": 5781.337, "end": 5790.876, "text": "Several key metrics needed to assess total facility throughput capacity were not available, so estimates for throughput capacity were generated.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-904", "start": 5791.248, "end": 5797.863, "text": "Through inference from average volumes, tank storage capacity, and benchmark operational metrics.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-905", "start": 5800.49, "end": 5805.803, "text": "Another report I would direct your attention to today is from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-906", "start": 5806.56, "end": 5808.701, "text": "They prepared this for the U.S. Department of Energy.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-907", "start": 5808.911, "end": 5819.618, "text": "It was published in August of last year, and they say right in the executive summary, fuel chain fuel supply chains are challenging to analyze.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-908", "start": 5819.955, "end": 5822.781, "text": "Data is proprietary, protected, and not available.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-909", "start": 5823.102, "end": 5824.081, "text": "Data is partial.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-910", "start": 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"cue-918", "start": 5849.586, "end": 5853.543, "text": "All right, colleagues, I'm going to give us a, uh, it is 3:31.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-919", "start": 5853.591, "end": 5857.249, "text": "If everybody could please be back here at, I'm going to say, 3:42.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-920", "start": 5857.299, "end": 5858.113, "text": "I'm going to give us an 11-minute break.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-921", "start": 6613.522, "end": 6614.438, "text": "Welcome back, folks.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-922", "start": 6614.502, "end": 6617.25, "text": "Thank you so much for giving us a humanity break there.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-923", "start": 6618.262, "end": 6621.428, "text": "Keelan, could we please call the next panel of testifiers up?", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-924", "start": 6622.761, "end": 6635.198, "text": "Next, next up we have Lindsay Hutchison, Ann Turner, Sarah Kowalewski, Robert Galanakis, Kelly Callahan.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-925", "start": 6636.696, "end": 6641.676, "text": "Come on down, folks, if you heard your name, and take us away at the table here.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-926", "start": 6644.6, "end": 6648.022, "text": "Good afternoon, my name is Lindsay Hutchison and I'm a resident of District 3.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-927", "start": 6649.999, "end": 6656.443, "text": "As it stands today, without proper policy passed, the CEI hub is a public health, environmental, and economic disaster.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-928", "start": 6657.43, "end": 6667.694, "text": "Picture this: the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hits in the next few years The ground under these massive fuel tanks liquefies, and they start falling into the Willamette River and collapsing on one another.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-929", "start": 6669.38, "end": 6676.95, "text": "An oil spill larger than the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico overtakes the Willamette River and flows quickly into the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-930", "start": 6677.82, "end": 6678.697, "text": "That's just the oil.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-931", "start": 6679.722, "end": 6684.534, "text": "Here in Portland, we are experiencing massive explosions, toxic air, and a river on fire.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-932", "start": 6685.72, "end": 6688.079, "text": "Forest Park is burning, and residents are trying to escape.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-933", "start": 6688.145, "end": 6688.244, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-934", "start": 6689.293, "end": 6696.635, "text": "Those most at risk, including the elderly, children, and those with preexisting health conditions, aren't able to breathe because of the air pollution from the toxic plumes.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-935", "start": 6698.014, "end": 6706.221, "text": "Our river, the lifeline of this state and this city, is out of oxygen, and all living creatures are dying quickly, including our iconic salmon and lamprey.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-936", "start": 6707.391, "end": 6708.594, "text": "Cleanup efforts are stalled.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-937", "start": 6708.85, "end": 6713.162, "text": "Almost all of the state's fuel storage is destroyed, along with all of the fuel that it held.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-938", "start": 6713.723, "end": 6716.721, "text": "The Coast Guard and the EPA are figuring out who should take the lead.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-939", "start": 6717.266, "end": 6723.925, "text": "The Coast Guard is supposed to, but it's trying to help those on the coast after the tsunami hits, and the EPA wasn't given authority in advance.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-940", "start": 6724.792, "end": 6729.77, "text": "Everyone is confused, everyone is scared, and things keep getting worse because we can't act immediately.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-941", "start": 6730.83, "end": 6747.307, "text": "Once cleanup and recovery efforts start, many billions of dollars will be needed, not just for river cleanup but for our soil and our air, to help our people rebuild and find safety, to rehab the wildlife that gets caught in this disaster, to start repairing riparian habitats, and to rebuild fuel storage.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-942", "start": 6747.371, "end": 6747.467, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-943", "start": 6748.397, "end": 6749.791, "text": "Does this sound apocalyptic?", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-944", "start": 6750.159, "end": 6758.075, "text": "Yes, and that is what our future, Portland's future, looks like if we do not prioritize protecting our people, our environment, and our communities.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-945", "start": 6758.909, "end": 6764.565, "text": "We need to take action on the CEI hub and make sure that action centers on public and environmental health and safety.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-946", "start": 6765.158, "end": 6769.228, "text": "BPS's proposal is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-947", "start": 6769.885, "end": 6773.827, "text": "The community-initiated amendments move further towards safety and securing our future.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-948", "start": 6773.875, "end": 6774.019, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-949", "start": 6774.688, "end": 6788.736, "text": "I hope that as both leaders and residents of this city, you support the community amendments shaped by well-informed, well-meaning residents who want us all to be safer, including our fuel supply, which we will need for recovery efforts after a major earthquake or other natural disaster.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-950", "start": 6789.43, "end": 6790.044, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-951", "start": 6790.965, "end": 6791.305, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-952", "start": 6795.11, "end": 6813.181, "text": "I'm Kelly Callahan from District 3, and I'm here speaking on behalf of Kalikasan Solidarity Organization, a grassroots environmental justice organization in Portland and member of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the We support the community amendments for the CEI Hub policy proposal led by Councilor Green in order to protect people here as well as around the world.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-953", "start": 6813.71, "end": 6824.691, "text": "Yesterday, this council voted to transfer the franchise agreement from the notorious CEI Hub occupant Zenith Energy to I Squared Capital, a private equity firm invested in energy infrastructure and logistics all over the world.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-954", "start": 6825.188, "end": 6837.611, "text": "In addition to its acquisition of Zenith Energy, which operates 84 storage fuel— fuel storage tanks along the Willamette River at the CEI Hub, they are invested in a major fossil fuel import terminal in Subic Bay in the Philippines.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-955", "start": 6837.691, "end": 6837.819, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-956", "start": 6838.397, "end": 6843.922, "text": "They're also proposing a $4 billion investment in an LNG pipeline and energy production in Central Luzon.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-957", "start": 6844.34, "end": 6860.063, "text": "This is likely to supply energy to the PacSilica Economic Security Zone, 4,000 acres of farmland and ancestral domain of the, uh, Aeta people, which is being handed over to foreign corporations to power the rush to dominate the AI supply chain from critical mineral processing to data centers.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-958", "start": 6860.577, "end": 6866.761, "text": "PacSilica is going to displace indigenous people, destroy farmland, and divert water and energy from already struggling communities.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-959", "start": 6866.809, "end": 6866.905, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-960", "start": 6867.482, "end": 6880.739, "text": "Not only is the Philippines the most natural disaster-prone country in the entire world, the corrupt government neglects disaster preparedness and response and allows corporations to plunder the natural resources there, making disasters more likely and tearing families apart.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-961", "start": 6881.012, "end": 6887.568, "text": "For thousands of Filipinos living in Portland, both their homeland and their home here in Portland are at the risk of environmental destruction.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-962", "start": 6888.642, "end": 6893.499, "text": "We call for the significant drawdown of toxic fuels at the CI hub as soon as possible.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-963", "start": 6893.932, "end": 6898.645, "text": "From Portland to the Philippines, people's land and lives are more important than the profits of companies like ICECO.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-964", "start": 6898.693, "end": 6898.789, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-965", "start": 6899.442, "end": 6905.146, "text": "And we're calling on you to heed the voices of your constituents as you consider these important amendments.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-966", "start": 6906.51, "end": 6906.81, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-967", "start": 6907.86, "end": 6908.543, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-968", "start": 6910.43, "end": 6910.994, "text": "Hello, councilors.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-969", "start": 6911.188, "end": 6912.495, "text": "Thanks for listening to us today.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-970", "start": 6912.625, "end": 6913.625, "text": "My name is Rob Galanakis.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-971", "start": 6913.69, "end": 6915.869, "text": "I'm speaking today on behalf of BikeLoud PDX.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-972", "start": 6916.353, "end": 6918.5, "text": "We welcome the drawdown of CAI Hub storage.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-973", "start": 6918.596, "end": 6922.852, "text": "We'd welcome a much larger drawdown, but given current trajectories, this drawdown could be a fairy tale.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-974", "start": 6923.305, "end": 6930.311, "text": "There are many stories of governments planning to wind down fossil fuel infrastructure But political realities cause those plans to be preempted or reversed.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-975", "start": 6930.664, "end": 6937.453, "text": "This has happened in at least Texas, Colorado, Washington, throughout California, and countries including New Zealand and Germany.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-976", "start": 6938.127, "end": 6940.743, "text": "The underlying cause is simple: demand has not fallen.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-977", "start": 6941.513, "end": 6945.204, "text": "Supply-side constraints with a fixed demand can only drive up price.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-978", "start": 6945.67, "end": 6950.645, "text": "Without a demand reduction, this ordinance will likely be rendered moot by the state or a future city government.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-979", "start": 6951.849, "end": 6955.797, "text": "Nearly every argument opposing this ordinance is based on the idea that demand won't fall.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-980", "start": 6956.406, "end": 6957.833, "text": "Business as usual says they're right.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-981", "start": 6957.961, "end": 6960.174, "text": "It means we need to change business as usual.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-982", "start": 6960.895, "end": 6961.648, "text": "Look outside.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-983", "start": 6961.793, "end": 6966.49, "text": "A closed freeway and gas above $5 a gallon, and Portlanders still feel compelled to drive.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-984", "start": 6967.083, "end": 6971.058, "text": "We've delayed building a transportation system that allows more of us to ditch fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-985", "start": 6972.132, "end": 6976.621, "text": "We have a 30-year history of setting sensible emissions reductions goals and falling short.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-986", "start": 6977.406, "end": 6982.039, "text": "The drawdown should be coupled with a real financial commitment to decarbonize our transportation sector.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-987", "start": 6984.724, "end": 6989.179, "text": "It's time to spend the money we need to help get Portlanders out of their cars and onto buses and bikes.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-988", "start": 6990.771, "end": 6997.289, "text": "The CEI hub has drawn an incredible amount of discussion for good reason, but at the same time, we're missing a bigger picture.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-989", "start": 6997.917, "end": 7003.869, "text": "Why does it say that this small drawdown in the face of existential seismic and climate threats is so difficult?", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-990", "start": 7004.606, "end": 7007.177, "text": "If demand were falling, would it be nearly as difficult?", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-991", "start": 7007.243, "end": 7017.714, "text": "Councilmember I implore you, councilors, to approve this ordinance, approve the Green Amendment, and approve some version of the Novick 1 Amendment that commits to spending real money to decarbonize our transportation system.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-992", "start": 7017.86, "end": 7018.186, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-993", "start": 7027.349, "end": 7027.528, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-994", "start": 7028.015, "end": 7029.281, "text": "Hi, good afternoon.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-995", "start": 7029.622, "end": 7035.049, "text": "My name is Ann Turner, and I'm here on behalf of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-996", "start": 7035.099, "end": 7036.84, "text": "Thank you for Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-997", "start": 7036.888, "end": 7037.851, "text": "Thank you for allowing me to testify.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-998", "start": 7038.413, "end": 7049.073, "text": "2 Years ago, the EPA chose 13 of the most polluted urban environments nationwide to look for unsuspected leaks of toxic industrial emissions.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-999", "start": 7049.651, "end": 7053.521, "text": "They chose Portland to study, and within Portland, they chose the CEI Hub.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1000", "start": 7054.484, "end": 7062.559, "text": "In fact, hundreds of pollutants are emitted at the hub every day, but the single most dangerous is diesel particulate matter.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1001", "start": 7063.297, "end": 7069.296, "text": "These are very fine particles produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and renewable fuels.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1002", "start": 7070.13, "end": 7075.15, "text": "They're like minuscule toxic bombs that you inhale deeply into your lungs.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1003", "start": 7076.305, "end": 7087.564, "text": "With them, they carry a rogue's gallery of poisons, including nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, arsenic, lead, mercury, and carbon monoxide, and many more.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1004", "start": 7088.254, "end": 7091.269, "text": "The most common adverse effects are heart and lung disease.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1005", "start": 7091.863, "end": 7096.373, "text": "Various cancers, poor birth outcomes, dementia, and learning disabilities.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1006", "start": 7097.465, "end": 7104.382, "text": "Within our community, people of color, low-income residents, industrial workers, and truck drivers are the most exposed.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1007", "start": 7105.265, "end": 7107.528, "text": "The polluters do not pay for these harms.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1008", "start": 7107.656, "end": 7116.147, "text": "We do through reduced productivity, decreased school attendance, higher healthcare costs, illness, disability, and premature death.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1009", "start": 7116.195, "end": 7116.387, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1010", "start": 7117.222, "end": 7121.726, "text": "There's a constant stream of diesel-powered trucks, trains, and barges at the hub.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1011", "start": 7122.415, "end": 7126.454, "text": "Their exhaust is completely unmonitored and largely unregulated.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1012", "start": 7126.839, "end": 7135.783, "text": "Commercial trucks are not subject to tailpipe emissions testing, and tank owners are not held accountable for the diesel exhaust they generate from these mobile sources.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1013", "start": 7136.536, "end": 7152.026, "text": "This is yet another compelling reason to effect a rapid drawdown— as rapid a drawdown as possible of the fuel transloaded Sarah.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1014", "start": 7152.511, "end": 7153.045, "text": "Greetings.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1015", "start": 7153.32, "end": 7157.998, "text": "My name is Sarah Kowalewski, and I'm the coalition organizer for Portland Jobs with Justice.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1016", "start": 7158.742, "end": 7160.329, "text": "We are a community and labor coalition.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1017", "start": 7161.5, "end": 7169.073, "text": "In my 7 years of organizing, the safety concerns with the CEI hub have been among the issues our coalition hears about the most.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1018", "start": 7169.86, "end": 7175.218, "text": "Today, educators and frontline healthcare professionals and members of Climate Jobs are testifying as well.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1019", "start": 7177.248, "end": 7186.238, "text": "The fact that our state is dependent on the CEI hub for 90% of its liquid fuel should be understood as an economic vulnerability, not an economic asset.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1020", "start": 7186.879, "end": 7192.135, "text": "And frankly, no one sought the consent of the community to accept the hub's unparalleled risk.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1021", "start": 7192.904, "end": 7196.717, "text": "So we are asking you now to meaningfully mitigate this risk.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1022", "start": 7197.679, "end": 7206.606, "text": "You can do this by passing the community amendments, which will make the code's risk reducing responsibilities crystal clear and stand up to legal challenge.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1023", "start": 7207.552, "end": 7211.207, "text": "Let's replace words like may with shall.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1024", "start": 7212.361, "end": 7217.859, "text": "Let's require third-party audits of drawdown instead of trusting corporate self-reporting.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1025", "start": 7219.093, "end": 7221.546, "text": "We support drawdown as the safest path.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1026", "start": 7222.7, "end": 7228.567, "text": "Any increase in fuel storage or transloading capacity must be subject to rigorous review criteria.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1027", "start": 7228.615, "end": 7228.711, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1028", "start": 7229.353, "end": 7234.243, "text": "And any expansion must have clearly defined public benefit, not just more risk.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1029", "start": 7235.189, "end": 7242.341, "text": "So please, respectfully, do not let this plan for the next decade fall prey to the kind of shenanigans that we saw yesterday.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1030", "start": 7242.822, "end": 7247.039, "text": "Kelly just mentioned this around the Zenith transfer proposal.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1031", "start": 7247.536, "end": 7252.363, "text": "Let's make progress today on this matter of health, safety, and climate action for our community.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1032", "start": 7253.004, "end": 7253.437, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1033", "start": 7254.431, "end": 7254.72, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1034", "start": 7255.088, "end": 7255.81, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1035", "start": 7258.418, "end": 7265.003, "text": "Next up we have Benjamin Platt, Jan Zuckerman, Ruth Dallas, Nancy Heiser, Laura Feldman.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1036", "start": 7271.479, "end": 7277.337, "text": "Welcome everybody.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1037", "start": 7278.065, "end": 7281.125, "text": "You want to start us off?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1038", "start": 7281.692, "end": 7281.87, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1039", "start": 7282.288, "end": 7284.337, "text": "My name is Ruth Dallas and I live in District 2.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1040", "start": 7285.047, "end": 7289.485, "text": "I do not feel the Bureau of Sustainability plan is sufficient to improve safety at the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1041", "start": 7289.985, "end": 7292.928, "text": "I support the plan made in collaboration with the community.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1042", "start": 7293.609, "end": 7299.93, "text": "The Cascadia earthquake is likely to hit the West Coast in the next 50 years, which means it could happen tomorrow.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1043", "start": 7301.89, "end": 7309.211, "text": "When does our— our own PSU scientists have said that the CEI hub will cause damage that could be as bad as Fukushima.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1044", "start": 7309.275, "end": 7309.825, "text": "Councilmember Dallas.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1045", "start": 7311.494, "end": 7317.265, "text": "The authorities in Fukushima thought that their facility was going to hold up to an earthquake.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1046", "start": 7317.492, "end": 7320.467, "text": "It did not, and an entire community was destroyed.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1047", "start": 7322.1, "end": 7324.212, "text": "Their lack of foresight caused it.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1048", "start": 7324.648, "end": 7330.422, "text": "Is Portland going to just hope for the best, or is Portland going to do something to prevent something like Fukushima?", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1049", "start": 7331.62, "end": 7335.749, "text": "The tanks at Dahab are mostly owned by wealthy multinational corporations.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1050", "start": 7336.522, "end": 7342.275, "text": "They have the resources and the responsibility to make their tanks safe.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1051", "start": 7342.852, "end": 7349.758, "text": "But although these fossil fuel companies have known for decades that their products are dangerous, they don't work to make them safer.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1052", "start": 7350.223, "end": 7355.399, "text": "Instead, they pay billions to lobby legislators to avoid responsibility.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1053", "start": 7356.393, "end": 7360.367, "text": "I imagine all you city councilors don't like sitting through these public hearings.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1054", "start": 7360.783, "end": 7362.001, "text": "I don't know if you think about us.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1055", "start": 7362.723, "end": 7363.863, "text": "None of us want to come here.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1056", "start": 7364.408, "end": 7367.169, "text": "Most of us hate—.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1057", "start": 7367.281, "end": 7368.035, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1058", "start": 7368.26, "end": 7370.154, "text": "Most of us hate public speaking.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1059", "start": 7370.587, "end": 7377.375, "text": "We take time out of our day, come down here to try to convince you guys to do— and ladies— to do the right thing.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1060", "start": 7378.146, "end": 7385.48, "text": "So I'm asking you to please put our children's future in front of profits of fossil fuel companies.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1061", "start": 7385.833, "end": 7386.089, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1062", "start": 7386.86, "end": 7387.117, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1063", "start": 7389.348, "end": 7390.087, "text": "Can I go next?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1064", "start": 7390.184, "end": 7390.505, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1065", "start": 7392.24, "end": 7395.165, "text": "Hi, my name is Jan Zuckerman from District 2.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1066", "start": 7395.952, "end": 7402.397, "text": "Thank you for working together with us to address the very real risks and safety concerns, concerns at the hub.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1067", "start": 7402.946, "end": 7422.972, "text": "The CI Hub Policy Project provides us with an opportunity to not only walk our talk, baby steps as they be, but walk arm in arm when millions of gallons of fuel pours into the Willamette, igniting fires, and poisonous plumes spread across the county, threatening, threatening the lives of thousands.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1068", "start": 7423.485, "end": 7428.228, "text": "The average person will not have the ability to protect themselves from this kind of danger.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1069", "start": 7428.917, "end": 7433.613, "text": "The only true way to limit the risk at the hub is to reduce the fuel that's stored there.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1070", "start": 7434.366, "end": 7452.102, "text": "This means supporting one review protocol for all facility upgrades, eliminating expansion loopholes and exemptions for any type of flammable, combustible, and toxic materials at the hub while ensuring that data-driven demand for fuel won't leave us in the dark.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1071", "start": 7452.968, "end": 7468.642, "text": "Knowing what is in store for us once the Cascadia earthquake hits should make our work easy to do, but unfortunately emotional and political winds can blow us in the wrong direction, leaving us vulnerable to toxic winds that endanger us all.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1072", "start": 7469.428, "end": 7487.379, "text": "The lives lost at Vanport still haunt us as we repeat the same mistakes: hazardous location, flawed infrastructure, disregard to science and warnings, no evacuation plans, official inaction, and systemic racism.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1073", "start": 7487.572, "end": 7490.604, "text": "It took this tragedy to overhaul the levee system.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1074", "start": 7491.085, "end": 7499.331, "text": "We must not wait for unfathomable destruction to overhaul our fuel storage strategy, it will be too late.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1075", "start": 7499.828, "end": 7510.706, "text": "We are looking to you to support amendments that provide us with the kind of reasonable safety regulations that will lessen the impacts from natural disasters and limit mass casualties.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1076", "start": 7511.204, "end": 7514.252, "text": "Thank you for all the work you're doing to push this forward.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1077", "start": 7514.653, "end": 7515.343, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1078", "start": 7519.402, "end": 7521.73, "text": "Hello all, my name is Benjamin Platt.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1079", "start": 7521.875, "end": 7526.306, "text": "I'm a volunteer with 350 PDX and DSA and a resident of District 3.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1080", "start": 7527.028, "end": 7537.303, "text": "I appreciate the work that BPS has put into getting to this point, but I want to encourage everyone in this room to take full advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1081", "start": 7538.009, "end": 7543.372, "text": "This policy project sets out to reduce risk and increase safety of not just our city, but our entire region.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1082", "start": 7544.206, "end": 7545.378, "text": "But some of the language is too weak.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1083", "start": 7545.443, "end": 7545.619, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1084", "start": 7546.213, "end": 7559.059, "text": "And we need to prohibit all expansion, remove loopholes for Type 3 discretionary reviews, create a single definition of fuel that acknowledges the dangers of all liquid fuels, and act with urgency in drawing down the fuel being stored in the hub.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1085", "start": 7559.701, "end": 7567.681, "text": "We heard earlier about community members who testified in 2016, in the year of our Lord 2026, returning today to speak on the same issue.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1086", "start": 7568.371, "end": 7570.571, "text": "We don't need another decade to even get things moving.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1087", "start": 7570.619, "end": 7571.149, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1088", "start": 7571.731, "end": 7577.529, "text": "If we're trying to reduce risk as much as we can, delay is an increase in risk, not holding things as they are.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1089", "start": 7578.191, "end": 7579.079, "text": "Support the Green et al.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1090", "start": 7579.144, "end": 7581.674, "text": "Amendment package and help make this city safer and healthier.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1091", "start": 7581.969, "end": 7582.232, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1092", "start": 7587.584, "end": 7588.971, "text": "Hello, I'm Nancy Heiser.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1093", "start": 7589.132, "end": 7589.905, "text": "I live in Linnton.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1094", "start": 7590.727, "end": 7591.807, "text": "I'm Laura Feldman.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1095", "start": 7592.017, "end": 7592.968, "text": "I live in Portsmouth.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1096", "start": 7593.63, "end": 7598.425, "text": "I see the fuel tanks from my front door, and Forest Park is my backyard.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1097", "start": 7599.136, "end": 7605.644, "text": "The black car trains carrying flammable, combustible, and toxic fuels snake through my neighborhood daily.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1098", "start": 7606.564, "end": 7607.777, "text": "We live near the hub.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1099", "start": 7608.507, "end": 7610.825, "text": "In a quadruple natural hazard zone.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1100", "start": 7611.652, "end": 7615.106, "text": "I'm worried about bridges collapsing and toxic lethal air.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1101", "start": 7616.112, "end": 7619.866, "text": "We're afraid about fire and no emergency responders.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1102", "start": 7621.429, "end": 7624.169, "text": "We are 151 years old.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1103", "start": 7626.393, "end": 7627.843, "text": "I thought we were going to be older than that.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1104", "start": 7629.951, "end": 7632.221, "text": "But disasters don't discriminate.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1105", "start": 7632.87, "end": 7635.286, "text": "Yeah, we have families with young children.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1106", "start": 7635.92, "end": 7641.759, "text": "My neighbors are diverse, all ages, all backgrounds, many already so vulnerable.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1107", "start": 7643.412, "end": 7646.691, "text": "Is this what a sacrifice zone is?", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1108", "start": 7649.097, "end": 7653.678, "text": "We face existential risks, and you do too.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1109", "start": 7654.956, "end": 7657.218, "text": "There will be no fuel for the entire state.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1110", "start": 7657.445, "end": 7658.931, "text": "Transportation will collapse.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1111", "start": 7658.996, "end": 7661.113, "text": "The economy will grind to a halt.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1112", "start": 7661.743, "end": 7663.941, "text": "And after the disaster, no water.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1113", "start": 7664.556, "end": 7666.335, "text": "How can we survive without water?", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1114", "start": 7666.917, "end": 7669.1, "text": "How can we fight fires without water?", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1115", "start": 7669.407, "end": 7671.688, "text": "How can we build back without water?", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1116", "start": 7672.81, "end": 7674.398, "text": "Reducing is key.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1117", "start": 7675.338, "end": 7676.748, "text": "Reducing risk is key.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1118", "start": 7678.272, "end": 7685.886, "text": "What will you do to protect us Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1119", "start": 7686.547, "end": 7686.885, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1120", "start": 7687.931, "end": 7688.157, "text": "Next—.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1121", "start": 7688.157, "end": 7690.395, "text": "Thank you all very much, very much.", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1122", "start": 7692.023, "end": 7699.634, "text": "Next up, we have Jessica Vaughn, Linda Waisong, Amy Johnson, Candace Jimenez, Amy Rathfelder.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1123", "start": 7710.559, "end": 7710.976, "text": "Welcome.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1124", "start": 7712.002, "end": 7712.563, "text": "Amy, take us away.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1125", "start": 7713.204, "end": 7713.541, "text": "You sat down first.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1126", "start": 7713.621, "end": 7713.99, "text": "Are you sure?", "speaker": "Kelly Callahan" }, { "id": "cue-1127", "start": 7714.07, "end": 7715.144, "text": "I'm technically last.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1128", "start": 7715.913, "end": 7716.522, "text": "You sat down first.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1129", "start": 7716.571, "end": 7716.859, "text": "You're good.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1130", "start": 7717.116, "end": 7717.548, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1131", "start": 7718.254, "end": 7719.023, "text": "Good to see you all.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1132", "start": 7720.338, "end": 7722.518, "text": "Good afternoon, Council President, members of council.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1133", "start": 7722.806, "end": 7723.864, "text": "My name is Amy Rathfeller.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1134", "start": 7724.009, "end": 7728.401, "text": "I'm the local community and government affairs manager for Northwest Natural, and I'm a registered lobbyist.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1135", "start": 7729.058, "end": 7730.132, "text": "Also live in District 4.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1136", "start": 7731.318, "end": 7738.42, "text": "We are a state-regulated utility headquartered in downtown Portland, a couple blocks from here, and we provide energy for more than 2 million people and thousands of businesses.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1137", "start": 7738.34, "end": 7741.055, "text": "Thousands of businesses throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1138", "start": 7741.97, "end": 7745.409, "text": "More than half our workforce is represented by OPEIU Local 11.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1139", "start": 7745.907, "end": 7748.252, "text": "I really appreciate the opportunity to testify today.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1140", "start": 7749.457, "end": 7757.49, "text": "We also appreciate that the current draft includes an exemption for state-regulated utility infrastructure, which addresses our concerns regarding the Portland LNG site.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1141", "start": 7758.037, "end": 7764.849, "text": "One, as of September 2026, the parametrics analysis does not include an evaluation of LNG operations.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1142", "start": 7765.266, "end": 7771.101, "text": "Direct-use natural gas, peaking facility operations, or Portland LNG's single-tank configuration.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1143", "start": 7771.838, "end": 7777.192, "text": "As a result, the proposed 20% drawdown requirement is not supported by underlying technical analysis.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1144", "start": 7778.667, "end": 7788.558, "text": "2, Portland LNG is a critical peak winter reliability resource that helps serve over 150,000 Portland area customers during severe cold weather events.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1145", "start": 7788.926, "end": 7796.829, "text": "Because Portland LNG has a single-tank design and limited refill capability, reducing available storage could materially affect winter reliability.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1146", "start": 7798.208, "end": 7809.092, "text": "3, Portland LNG also helps reduce dependence on constrained interstate pipeline capacity and exposure to high-cost peak-day gas purchases, supporting affordability for our customers.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1147", "start": 7809.846, "end": 7812.779, "text": "And 4, safety is Northwest Natural's top priority.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1148", "start": 7813.116, "end": 7817.909, "text": "We continue our emergency preparedness work each day and look forward to working alongside the city on this.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1149", "start": 7818.646, "end": 7828.537, "text": "We are currently completing engineering analyses to meet Oregon DEQ's Fuel Tank Seismic Stability Program requirements for Portland LNG, with an expected submission to DEQ in 2027.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1150", "start": 7828.601, "end": 7828.697, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1151", "start": 7829.898, "end": 7836.688, "text": "We believe the exemption appropriately recognizes the unique operational and reliability role of this state-regulated utility infrastructure.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1152", "start": 7837.254, "end": 7842.671, "text": "I'm also here with Mike McKenzie, engineering senior manager, and we would be happy to answer any questions you have about this.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1153", "start": 7842.948, "end": 7843.339, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1154", "start": 7844.153, "end": 7844.625, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1155", "start": 7846.87, "end": 7847.887, "text": "Please.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1156", "start": 7849.309, "end": 7850.068, "text": "Ah, hello.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1157", "start": 7851.005, "end": 7852.765, "text": "Hello, my name is Linda Weisong.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1158", "start": 7853.024, "end": 7856.05, "text": "I'm a resident of the Kenton neighborhood of North Portland.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1159", "start": 7856.516, "end": 7860.982, "text": "This is commonly known as the explosive zone or sacrificial zone.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1160", "start": 7861.64, "end": 7866.122, "text": "We see and hear the trains carrying toxic and flammable materials daily.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1161", "start": 7866.7, "end": 7869.399, "text": "I shudder and cross my fingers as they rumble by.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1162", "start": 7870.234, "end": 7876.081, "text": "The CEI hub is a danger to not just one neighborhood, but to everyone in the city.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1163", "start": 7876.997, "end": 7889.141, "text": "The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability's drawdown proposal needs to be expanded to include actual measurements and goals that will reduce risk and harm at the CEI Hub starting now.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1164", "start": 7890.154, "end": 7896.564, "text": "It is unacceptable to wait another decade to begin to reduce the fuel levels and risks to Portlanders.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1165", "start": 7897.463, "end": 7909.785, "text": "Additionally, the proposed plan suggests a decrease in the volume of potential storage, but it does not actually mandate a reduction of fuels stored at the CEI Hub or use verifiable data.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1166", "start": 7909.849, "end": 7913.172, "text": "Councilmember It is based on speculative estimates.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1167", "start": 7914.424, "end": 7923.797, "text": "Remember, the recent tank explosion in Longview, Washington depicted the speed and devastation of the explosion of just one tank.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1168", "start": 7924.295, "end": 7928.853, "text": "There are 630 fuel tanks at the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1169", "start": 7929.431, "end": 7940.626, "text": "An earthquake, a fire, or other disaster would be devastating, and it is common knowledge that to reduce risk and plan for disasters, one must start with the factual information.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1170", "start": 7941.335, "end": 7946.254, "text": "The less fuel there is at the CEI hub, the less risk to the community.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1171", "start": 7948.348, "end": 7957.444, "text": "Um, it is Portland City's job to make sure that the economic development is not at the expense of the life and health of its people.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1172", "start": 7958.014, "end": 7960.295, "text": "Please support the community amendments.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1173", "start": 7960.523, "end": 7960.98, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Linda Weisong" }, { "id": "cue-1174", "start": 7961.746, "end": 7962.234, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1175", "start": 7966.864, "end": 7967.172, "text": "Jessica.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1176", "start": 7967.641, "end": 7969.032, "text": "Hi, good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1177", "start": 7969.097, "end": 7970.278, "text": "My name is Jessica Vaughn.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1178", "start": 7970.634, "end": 7971.864, "text": "I live and work in District 2.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1179", "start": 7972.333, "end": 7978.75, "text": "I serve on the Boise Neighborhood Association, and I'm also a neighborhood emergency team volunteer covering 3 neighborhoods.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1180", "start": 7979.334, "end": 7980.746, "text": "I also have a background in healthcare.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1181", "start": 7981.31, "end": 7987.754, "text": "This issue matters to me for many reasons, but today I'll focus on 2: our health and our emergency preparedness.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1182", "start": 7988.573, "end": 7990.788, "text": "NET volunteers train for the day we can't control.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1183", "start": 7991.141, "end": 7998.25, "text": "When Cascadia hits, we'll be on our blocks pulling neighbors from damaged homes, bandaging wounds, and knocking on the doors of elders who live alone.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1184", "start": 7998.988, "end": 8001.299, "text": "Hospitals will be overwhelmed for days.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1185", "start": 8001.411, "end": 8002.904, "text": "We will be all our neighbors have.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1186", "start": 8003.578, "end": 8007.959, "text": "We can't stop that earthquake, but the CEI hub is not out of our control.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1187", "start": 8008.312, "end": 8008.761, "text": "It's a choice.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1188", "start": 8010.157, "end": 8014.939, "text": "Picture that same morning with a chemical fire burning on the river and toxic smoke rolling over our neighbors.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1189", "start": 8015.164, "end": 8021.763, "text": "Neighborhoods, children struggling to breathe, neighbors with burning eyes and lungs, and no ambulance coming.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1190", "start": 8022.534, "end": 8035.347, "text": "It is unacceptable to ask volunteers to plan around a disaster the city can reduce, and it isn't right to ask anyone to live next to it, as people near the hub already do, breathing its pollution every single day.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1191", "start": 8036.15, "end": 8040.116, "text": "You have a moral responsibility to reduce that harm, and you have the power to do it today.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1192", "start": 8040.18, "end": 8040.309, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1193", "start": 8040.886, "end": 8042.808, "text": "That's why the drawdown matters so much to me.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1194", "start": 8043.065, "end": 8052.693, "text": "Every gallon we remove means fewer people hurt, fewer homes and neighborhoods lost, a faster recovery, and a cleaner— and cleaner air for the families living beside the hub right now.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1195", "start": 8053.783, "end": 8056.17, "text": "The current proposal waits until 2036.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1196", "start": 8056.682, "end": 8058.108, "text": "That's 10 more years of risk.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1197", "start": 8058.509, "end": 8071.357, "text": "The amendment package led by Councilor Green starts in 2027, and I urge you to keep the drawdown going until this fuel is gone, because until then, our health and our emergency preparedness are built on unstable ground.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1198", "start": 8071.405, "end": 8071.517, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1199", "start": 8072.226, "end": 8076.789, "text": "When the earthquake does come, NET volunteers will be there for our neighbors.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1200", "start": 8077.289, "end": 8079.143, "text": "I'm asking you to be there for us now.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1201", "start": 8080.078, "end": 8086.088, "text": "I urge Councilors Pirtle-Guiney, Ryan, and Kanal, and the full council to approve these amendments.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1202", "start": 8086.329, "end": 8086.587, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jessica Vaughn" }, { "id": "cue-1203", "start": 8089.03, "end": 8089.303, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1204", "start": 8090.733, "end": 8090.878, "text": "Amy.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1205", "start": 8091.151, "end": 8097.933, "text": "Hello, my name is Amy Johnson, and I'm a resident of Beaverton.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1206", "start": 8098.406, "end": 8101.362, "text": "I'm also a student at Portland State University.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1207", "start": 8101.651, "end": 8107.786, "text": "I'm here today to ask you to support the CEI Hub amendment package sponsored by Councilor Green and others.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1208", "start": 8108.782, "end": 8116.428, "text": "The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability proposal as it stands does not do enough to increase safety at the, the CEI Hub.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1209", "start": 8117.198, "end": 8125.855, "text": "The BPS proposal allows for the expansion and does not reduce risks— allows for expansion and does not reduce risk risks or increase safety.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1210", "start": 8126.224, "end": 8127.027, "text": "It's not good enough.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1211", "start": 8127.733, "end": 8130.687, "text": "I urge you to vote yes on these amendments to increase safety.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1212", "start": 8131.666, "end": 8134.588, "text": "This is my first time testifying to Portland City Council.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1213", "start": 8134.974, "end": 8141.026, "text": "I'd like to aim my advocacy at the people who are elected to represent my family and our neighbors.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1214", "start": 8141.7, "end": 8153.516, "text": "Given that I'm 44th on the list, I know that you have already heard from smart, passionate, and compassionate individuals all of the reasons supporting the amendments to the CEI Hub Comprehensive Plan is crucial.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1215", "start": 8153.58, "end": 8153.757, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1216", "start": 8154.559, "end": 8160.289, "text": "So I'd like to add this: what you decide matters beyond your borders.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1217", "start": 8161.686, "end": 8167.287, "text": "The spills that could happen due to the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake will flow downstream.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1218", "start": 8168.106, "end": 8172.808, "text": "The wildfires sparked in Forest Park could spread over the Tualatin Mountains.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1219", "start": 8173.386, "end": 8180.914, "text": "The toxic gas plumes will know no borders, their dispersal governed by wind speed and direction.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1220", "start": 8181.813, "end": 8188.75, "text": "The magnitude of the potential disaster is catastrophic, especially for your constituents who live near the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1221", "start": 8189.536, "end": 8196.377, "text": "We cannot allow false solutions like switching to green fuels to persuade you not to reduce this potential disaster.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1222", "start": 8197.324, "end": 8202.912, "text": "I urge you to support and vote yes on the amendment package by Councilor Green and others.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1223", "start": 8203.345, "end": 8203.65, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1224", "start": 8207.8, "end": 8209.013, "text": "Candace Jimenez.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1225", "start": 8211.714, "end": 8213.218, "text": "Thank you, dear councilors.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1226", "start": 8213.332, "end": 8214.512, "text": "My name is Candace Jimenez.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1227", "start": 8214.626, "end": 8222.096, "text": "I'm a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and board chair of the Portland Harbor Community Coalition, as well as a resident of District 1.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1228", "start": 8222.627, "end": 8224.656, "text": "I speak today on behalf of PHCC.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1229", "start": 8225.268, "end": 8230.85, "text": "PHCC supports the Community Back Amendment sponsored by the councilors Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Kanal, Clark, and Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1230", "start": 8231.487, "end": 8236.813, "text": "Community members have spoken about reducing fuel storage and protecting the Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1231", "start": 8237.198, "end": 8239.668, "text": "I ask you to consider the future we are choosing for the river.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1232", "start": 8240.326, "end": 8247.144, "text": "Your ordinance draws on accounts from the Makah Tribe and the Hohi'at First Nation to explain the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1233", "start": 8247.689, "end": 8250.801, "text": "Tribal knowledge helped this region understand the power of the earth.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1234", "start": 8251.218, "end": 8253.368, "text": "It can also help guide how we live with that knowledge.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1235", "start": 8253.962, "end": 8259.223, "text": "Mother Nature will move with her own timeline, and our responsibility is to decide What we place in that path.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1236", "start": 8259.816, "end": 8264.113, "text": "Along the Willamette, we have concentrated enormous amounts of fuel on vulnerable ground.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1237", "start": 8264.85, "end": 8272.001, "text": "Those choices put the river, salmon, lamprey, first foods, and sustenance of tribal nations and community members at risk.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1238", "start": 8272.643, "end": 8282.215, "text": "Tribal traditional ecological knowledge comes from generations of living with these waters, observing change, and caring for what sustains us.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1239", "start": 8283.065, "end": 8286.079, "text": "I hope that you can bring that knowledge into decision-making about this river.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1240", "start": 8286.143, "end": 8286.335, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1241", "start": 8286.993, "end": 8291.21, "text": "Name tribal nations in the amendments coordination as well as the notice provisions.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1242", "start": 8291.804, "end": 8298.426, "text": "Reach beyond what the city's current contact list is to invite regional tribal nations with connections to these waters.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1243", "start": 8299.02, "end": 8307.005, "text": "And when a tribal nation seeks that consultation, please require it early enough to shape decision-making, including future fuel tank reviews.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1244", "start": 8307.679, "end": 8313.259, "text": "I speak as a tribal citizen, but I can't speak for all tribal governments on behalf of anyone else.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1245", "start": 8314.107, "end": 8321.274, "text": "We cannot choose when the earth moves, but we can choose how much fuel remains beside, to, and in relationship to the land and the river.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1246", "start": 8321.8, "end": 8328.439, "text": "We can choose whose knowledge guides us, and we can change the future for our children and what they inherit.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1247", "start": 8328.826, "end": 8329.1, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Jimenez" }, { "id": "cue-1248", "start": 8330.438, "end": 8331.098, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1249", "start": 8332.917, "end": 8338.563, "text": "Next up, we have Kate Murphy, Lindsay Huber, Sophia Steele Conley.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1250", "start": 8339.262, "end": 8340.243, "text": "Margaret Thomas.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1251", "start": 8340.773, "end": 8351.604, "text": "Edith Gillis.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1252", "start": 8353.05, "end": 8355.987, "text": "Hello there, my name is Kate Murphy.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1253", "start": 8356.374, "end": 8359.278, "text": "I am the senior community organizer with Columbia Riverkeeper.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1254", "start": 8359.795, "end": 8369.951, "text": "I have a background in public health with a focus on environmental systems and human health, and I just want to start by Expressing my gratitude for everyone who's worked on this very long process.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1255", "start": 8370.977, "end": 8377.138, "text": "The reason I'm here today and the reason many of us are here today is the same reason I've been here every time you've seen my face in this room.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1256", "start": 8377.555, "end": 8384.534, "text": "We are working to protect our community, to prioritize health and safety, and to stand up for the places that we love.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1257", "start": 8385.015, "end": 8386.972, "text": "We are not here to make a deal.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1258", "start": 8387.181, "end": 8389.058, "text": "We're not here to make a profit.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1259", "start": 8389.587, "end": 8390.871, "text": "We are here to protect one another.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1260", "start": 8390.935, "end": 8391.031, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1261", "start": 8392.089, "end": 8404.609, "text": "Time and time again, we have been told why our decision makers' hands are tied, why the ball is in someone else's court, and why public health and safety cannot take priority over business as usual.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1262", "start": 8405.154, "end": 8410.716, "text": "Now we have an opportunity before us to really make an impact on the health and safety of our city.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1263", "start": 8411.213, "end": 8418.459, "text": "Our community has worked diligently in coalition to draft amendments seeking sound solutions to many of the issues that we see.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1264", "start": 8419.004, "end": 8422.947, "text": "I strongly support the amendments that have been put forward by the community as a baseline.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1265", "start": 8423.653, "end": 8425.64, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1266", "start": 8426.922, "end": 8430.801, "text": "Despite all this work, I want to address what feels like a significant disconnect.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1267", "start": 8431.25, "end": 8445.787, "text": "As we have navigated this process, it appears the city's approach is to identify the potential impact if industry were to do their absolute worst and then to reduce the likelihood of that hypothetical worst-case scenario.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1268", "start": 8446.332, "end": 8459.923, "text": "What the community is asking for the city to do is to identify the impact Real world today at the CEI hub, and and to reduce harm from the baseline of what our reality is now.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1269", "start": 8460.613, "end": 8468.369, "text": "The objective of the FEMA grant is intended to reduce harm without addressing the real on-the-ground harm that we're facing.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1270", "start": 8468.482, "end": 8471.195, "text": "I do not know how that objective is being met.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1271", "start": 8472.48, "end": 8482.275, "text": "We are we are failing to meet that objective, and if in the end the plan allows for an increase in combustible fuel at the hub, that is not a plan for harm reduction.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1272", "start": 8483.176, "end": 8492.005, "text": "Today we are here doing the work of planting seeds that with proper tending can blossom into a healthier and safer future for generations to come.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1273", "start": 8492.232, "end": 8494.436, "text": "So what will you bring to the garden?", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1274", "start": 8495.133, "end": 8496.414, "text": "What seeds will you plant?", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1275", "start": 8497.76, "end": 8498.041, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1276", "start": 8498.372, "end": 8499.001, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1277", "start": 8503.003, "end": 8504.834, "text": "Hi, my name is Margaret Thomas.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1278", "start": 8505.369, "end": 8506.682, "text": "My pronouns are she/her.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1279", "start": 8507.379, "end": 8508.546, "text": "I live in District 4.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1280", "start": 8509.981, "end": 8512.343, "text": "I'm going to try to read this off my phone.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1281", "start": 8512.407, "end": 8513.709, "text": "My vision is limited.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1282", "start": 8514.271, "end": 8515.412, "text": "It will be short, I promise.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1283", "start": 8515.943, "end": 8517.517, "text": "Good afternoon, city councilors.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1284", "start": 8518.674, "end": 8530.083, "text": "Given that one of the 5 guiding principles of Portland's comprehensive plan is environmental health, I wish to speak about how we can address safety concerns at the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1285", "start": 8530.967, "end": 8534.068, "text": "The hub poses a risk of possible tank fire and explosion.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1286", "start": 8534.213, "end": 8539.49, "text": "Councilor A spark could easily set off Forest Park and surrounding neighborhoods on fire.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1287", "start": 8539.972, "end": 8547.029, "text": "A fire in Forest Park could move at 14 miles an hour, endangering forest acreage in the coastal range.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1288", "start": 8547.575, "end": 8556.75, "text": "An explosion could cause an oil spill larger than the Deep Horizon spill and cause contamination of our 2 rivers and potentially the Pacific Ocean.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1289", "start": 8557.44, "end": 8561.755, "text": "Please support items 12 and 13 in the CEI Hub policy project.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1290", "start": 8561.835, "end": 8562.075, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1291", "start": 8562.798, "end": 8577.283, "text": "We need a significant drawdown of toxic fuels in the CEI hub, clear actionable language, and a directive to redefine the use of fuels, the word fuels in the text.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1292", "start": 8577.733, "end": 8578.006, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Margaret Thomas" }, { "id": "cue-1293", "start": 8579.034, "end": 8579.339, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1294", "start": 8580.463, "end": 8582.246, "text": "Hello, I'm Edith Gillis, District 3.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1295", "start": 8582.647, "end": 8590.003, "text": "I support 350, XR, PSR, Riverkeeper, and that we must Thank you.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1296", "start": 8590.083, "end": 8598.696, "text": "Why not have risk bonds required of all the polluters and all those who own the dangerous products that transport it, store it, and sell it?", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1297", "start": 8599.355, "end": 8618.595, "text": "When I drove my first baby to and from our home through Linnton and passed the dominoes of tanks decaying from the toxic, caustic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, deadly chemicals, past truck and car collisions near the tanks and train derailments and dripping flammable fuel, We would get irritated eyes, nose, throat, and upset stomachs.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1298", "start": 8619.124, "end": 8629.251, "text": "I knew that no one has invented or made train cars safe for the tar sands, frack gas, oil, the vibration and weight, or have invented any effective safe way to put out their fires.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1299", "start": 8629.603, "end": 8637.503, "text": "That the foam that can only be used days after the oil bomb trains burn lasts for generations of disabling DNA-destroying disabilities.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1300", "start": 8638.16, "end": 8641.829, "text": "I was scared my son would be poisoned by the fumes, burned, or blown up.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1301", "start": 8642.852, "end": 8653.606, "text": "As it turns out, he has brain injuries and lasting disabilities some experts say are due to the poisons we just went by for 6 months.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1302", "start": 8655.73, "end": 8661.446, "text": "Brain injuries cause immediate dysfunction of the gut, immune system, nervous system, vision, sleep, pain, motion regulation.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1303", "start": 8661.864, "end": 8667.423, "text": "Portland cops are already proven more violent and irrational from the diesel fumes and chemical weapons they use.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1304", "start": 8667.868, "end": 8673.669, "text": "So this disaster will make those gun-prone to violence when they are uncomfortable further endanger us all.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1305", "start": 8674.278, "end": 8676.041, "text": "There are 630 tanks.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1306", "start": 8676.409, "end": 8679.101, "text": "One tank has 100 times the TNT of the Hiroshima bomb.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1307", "start": 8679.534, "end": 8683.524, "text": "For decades, I've been every hour in chronic severe pain due to Portland policies.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1308", "start": 8683.781, "end": 8684.326, "text": "Don't do it again.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1309", "start": 8684.758, "end": 8693.219, "text": "When my daughter ran the Portland Marathon, runners got sick from the fumes, and she easily placed first or second 100-kilometer or 100-mile races under harder terrain.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1310", "start": 8693.817, "end": 8709.173, "text": "But her body started to shut down when she slipped on the squishy mats soaked with the blood of people who had had car wrecks between the highway and the tracks that could have started a 2-mile fiery dominoes that blow up the tanks.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1311", "start": 8710.78, "end": 8720.718, "text": "When she goes to Forest Park to run for 20 miles, she could get lost and— I mean, she could get burned up on Leif Erickson Roadway with the fire highway.", "speaker": "Edith Gillis" }, { "id": "cue-1312", "start": 8720.8, "end": 8722.164, "text": "We are over time, unfortunately, friend.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1313", "start": 8722.213, "end": 8722.837, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1314", "start": 8726.004, "end": 8727.673, "text": "Good afternoon, City Councilors.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1315", "start": 8727.786, "end": 8732.183, "text": "My name is Linsey Huber, and I'm the interim executive director of the Street Trust.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1316", "start": 8732.744, "end": 8739.757, "text": "I'm also a resident of St. Johns, so the risk posed by the CEI hub are quite literally close to home for me.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1317", "start": 8740.527, "end": 8750.219, "text": "I'm here today to support Councilor Novick's amendment connecting the proposed fuel storage drawdown with greater investment in reducing our demand for liquid fuels.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1318", "start": 8750.893, "end": 8753.86, "text": "The CEI hub is not just a Portland issue.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1319", "start": 8754.341, "end": 8767.556, "text": "It's a critical piece of Oregon's fuel infrastructure, yet Portland and the communities surrounding the hub shoulder an enormous share of the risk created by concentrating that infrastructure in an area vulnerable to a major earthquake.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1320", "start": 8768.197, "end": 8775.286, "text": "We need a long-term solution that reduces the risk while recognizing the energy and transportation needs of people throughout the state.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1321", "start": 8775.35, "end": 8775.959, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1322", "start": 8776.473, "end": 8782.257, "text": "An important piece of that solution is reducing our dependence on liquid fuels in the first place.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1323", "start": 8782.819, "end": 8786.755, "text": "Transportation investments give us a practical tool to do that.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1324", "start": 8787.302, "end": 8787.43, "text": "More—.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1325", "start": 8787.703, "end": 8802.869, "text": "Making transit more accessible and reliable, making it safer and easier to walk and bike, supporting the transition to electric vehicles, and reducing diesel emissions can all help reduce demand while giving Portlanders more ways to get where they need to go.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1326", "start": 8803.385, "end": 8812.812, "text": "We support working with the PCEF committee and other stakeholders towards significantly greater investment in these transportation solutions as envisioned in this amendment.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1327", "start": 8813.556, "end": 8821.464, "text": "Reducing the risks at the CEI hub and reducing our demand for the fuels stored there should go hand in hand.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1328", "start": 8821.884, "end": 8823.884, "text": "We encourage council to pursue both.", "speaker": "Linsey Huber" }, { "id": "cue-1329", "start": 8824.223, "end": 8824.998, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1330", "start": 8828.418, "end": 8829.096, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1331", "start": 8829.225, "end": 8832.848, "text": "My name is Sophia Steele Conley, and I'm the Director of Government Affairs for the Western States Petroleum Association.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1332", "start": 8834.948, "end": 8840.464, "text": "I'm here today in opposition to Title 17, the 20% drawdown of inventory for bulk fuel storage.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1333", "start": 8841.25, "end": 8848.209, "text": "This proposal dictates that terminals would be required to provide a January 1st, 2027 inventory of existing tanks and capacity.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1334", "start": 8848.482, "end": 8853.998, "text": "The inventory would then serve as a basis for calculating the required 20% capacity reduction by 2036.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1335", "start": 8854.88, "end": 8866.385, "text": "To put this into practical terms, imagine requiring every grocery store in Oregon to permanently reduce its warehouse inventory by 20% based on whatever happened to be on its shelves during a single month several years earlier.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1336", "start": 8867.076, "end": 8869.1, "text": "The concern is not what happens on a normal day.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1337", "start": 8869.662, "end": 8875.3, "text": "The concern is what happens when a winter storm arrives, a pipeline goes down, or a supplier experiences an outage.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1338", "start": 8876.007, "end": 8880.794, "text": "Storage and inventory exists to provide flexibility and resiliency when conditions are not normal.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1339", "start": 8881.693, "end": 8886.223, "text": "Similarly, fuel inventories are not maintained supply for average daily demand.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1340", "start": 8886.769, "end": 8894.302, "text": "They provide the flexibility necessary to respond to disruptions emergencies, seasonal fluctuations, and unexpected market conditions.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1341", "start": 8894.834, "end": 8898.879, "text": "Reducing inventory can reduce the margin available to respond when Oregon needs it most.", "speaker": "Sophia Steele Conley" }, { "id": "cue-1342", "start": 8899.25, "end": 8901.201, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1343", "start": 8902.615, "end": 8903.428, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1344", "start": 8905.466, "end": 8915.236, "text": "Next up, we have Kelly Caldwell, Susan Palminter, Steph Ralph, Jordan Lewis, Jennifer Corral.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1345", "start": 8922.476, "end": 8924.218, "text": "Hello, my name is Susan Palmeter.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1346", "start": 8924.592, "end": 8926.268, "text": "Thanks for the opportunity to speak.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1347", "start": 8926.447, "end": 8928.628, "text": "I have lived in District 4 for 35 years.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1348", "start": 8929.272, "end": 8932.998, "text": "I am represented by Councilors Green, Zimmerman, and Clark.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1349", "start": 8934.213, "end": 8942.818, "text": "My friends and family in District 4 are highly impacted by your decisions, and, uh, we are watching your participation in this process.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1350", "start": 8944.07, "end": 8953.37, "text": "4 Hours ago, I was hiking with many of these District 4 friends in parks connected to Forest Park, and the information about the fire risk that was presented was hair-raising.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1351", "start": 8954.527, "end": 8959.699, "text": "Clearly, this is about safety and risk reduction, and we've already seen work throughout our city on this.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1352", "start": 8960.229, "end": 8965.787, "text": "This building, our City Hall in our fair city, was seismically upgraded.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1353", "start": 8965.851, "end": 8967.104, "text": "Seismically upgraded.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1354", "start": 8967.457, "end": 8967.907, "text": "That's smart.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1355", "start": 8967.955, "end": 8968.116, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1356", "start": 8968.806, "end": 8976.098, "text": "City councilors advanced a resolution to research renovating and replacing Keller Auditorium because of seismic hazards.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1357", "start": 8976.211, "end": 8976.95, "text": "That was smart.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1358", "start": 8977.496, "end": 8983.165, "text": "Portland schools have been or currently are seismically updated to— in preparation for that big one.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1359", "start": 8983.438, "end": 8984.081, "text": "That was smart.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1360", "start": 8984.643, "end": 8991.903, "text": "We can't live another decade with this amount of dangerous fuel at the hub and without more safeguards for that fuel that is there.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1361", "start": 8992.914, "end": 8997.315, "text": "The smart move is to pass the policy with the community amendments that have been negotiated.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1362", "start": 8998.18, "end": 9000.362, "text": "Thank you for your service, and I'll be watching.", "speaker": "Susan Palmeter" }, { "id": "cue-1363", "start": 9006.04, "end": 9008.177, "text": "Thank you for the opportunity to testify today.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1364", "start": 9008.803, "end": 9012.418, "text": "I'm Dr. Jennifer Krall, an ecologist living in District 4.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1365", "start": 9013.447, "end": 9019.979, "text": "As a scientist, I urge you to support the green amendments to the CEI Hub policy project items 12 and 13.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1366", "start": 9020.969, "end": 9026.358, "text": "While many here are talking about the earthquake I am extremely concerned about climate change.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1367", "start": 9026.935, "end": 9031.331, "text": "As time goes by, the most realistic models are increasingly the scariest ones.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1368", "start": 9032.165, "end": 9035.903, "text": "As our leaders, you must press for the boldest plans possible.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1369", "start": 9036.721, "end": 9044.405, "text": "We are at a turning point for, for energy, and this is the last gasp for fossil fuel company viability.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1370", "start": 9045.319, "end": 9050.115, "text": "You must prioritize our children's safety over their demands for maintaining profit.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1371", "start": 9051.56, "end": 9063.161, "text": "I urge you to support a phased significant drawdown of fuels at the CEI Hub beginning next year and based on real data, with additional reductions every 3 years and annual reports to council.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1372", "start": 9063.996, "end": 9073.881, "text": "Crucially, you must specify drawdown amounts in terms of actual measurements of average daily fill levels of the tanks, not estimates or forecasts.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1373", "start": 9074.844, "end": 9080.717, "text": "Finally, the current proposal is a start but does not adequately address the safety concerns we all have here.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1374", "start": 9080.781, "end": 9080.877, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kate Murphy" }, { "id": "cue-1375", "start": 9081.65, "end": 9096.209, "text": "I urge you to link equipment age and condition to something like catastrophe bonds to incentivize companies to prioritize safety upgrades at the same time as they ensure funds are available when, not if, disasters happen.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1376", "start": 9097.111, "end": 9099.502, "text": "You have the authority and ability to do this.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1377", "start": 9100.216, "end": 9100.979, "text": "We're watching you.", "speaker": "Jennifer Krall" }, { "id": "cue-1378", "start": 9103.97, "end": 9104.803, "text": "Endorse.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1379", "start": 9108.114, "end": 9108.884, "text": "My name is Steph Rouse.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1380", "start": 9109.221, "end": 9110.696, "text": "I am the chair of the Planning Commission.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1381", "start": 9110.745, "end": 9112.412, "text": "I'm here in a personal capacity.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1382", "start": 9113.23, "end": 9118.058, "text": "The question before you and us all is, what do we do with this very sloppy joe we've been handed?", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1383", "start": 9118.218, "end": 9132.251, "text": "And while I know we are here to talk about the gut-churning placement of our supply, I invite you to join me for a few minutes in dreaming about the great decisions that are in our future regarding demand, specifically a decarbonized transportation future.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1384", "start": 9132.315, "end": 9132.491, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1385", "start": 9133.39, "end": 9138.302, "text": "So next year, I believe you will consider the update of the Transportation System Plan.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1386", "start": 9138.511, "end": 9151.304, "text": "To the best of my knowledge, serving on that Community Advisory Committee, this will be the first time that the TSP has ever centered the concepts of our roads not just as a conduit, but also as a place.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1387", "start": 9151.914, "end": 9159.844, "text": "And that is a transformative framework that can help develop walkable, climate-resilient neighborhoods and business districts.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1388", "start": 9159.892, "end": 9160.085, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1389", "start": 9160.663, "end": 9178.12, "text": "Every decision you make to support Vision Zero— and I just want to really be thankful of all of you for unanimously supporting that resolution— to retrofit and build a truly multimodal transportation system carries with it so many benefits, only one of which is reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1390", "start": 9178.553, "end": 9182.26, "text": "Beyond what is in your direct control is what is within your influence.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1391", "start": 9182.42, "end": 9184.41, "text": "I'm trying to go as fast as I can.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1392", "start": 9185.052, "end": 9187.058, "text": "Your influence at the state legislature.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1393", "start": 9187.379, "end": 9202.006, "text": "2 Years ago, in the Last full session, we had the opportunity to stand up a task force for high-speed rail, and after that could have considered, for example, using $10 million of Connect Oregon funds to actually fund a study.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1394", "start": 9202.551, "end": 9203.74, "text": "We need to bring that back.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1395", "start": 9203.997, "end": 9219.059, "text": "And the other is let's refund the rating of the excise bicycle tax that they did last year as part of a related clause to the judicial compensation, which I will never understand how that was possible, uh, that mostly, uh, funded Safe Routes to School and Oregon Community Pass.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1396", "start": 9219.155, "end": 9220.055, "text": "So let's bring that back.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1397", "start": 9220.135, "end": 9220.906, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Steph Rouse" }, { "id": "cue-1398", "start": 9221.757, "end": 9222.608, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1399", "start": 9224.054, "end": 9224.776, "text": "Hey, City Council.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1400", "start": 9224.825, "end": 9226.125, "text": "My name is Jordan Lewis.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1401", "start": 9226.543, "end": 9228.599, "text": "I'm a volunteer lobbyist for Portland DSA.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1402", "start": 9228.952, "end": 9231.474, "text": "I'm supportive of the community-based green et al.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1403", "start": 9231.538, "end": 9236.003, "text": "Amendments to the comprehensive plan, the zoning plan, and the fuel drawdown plans.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1404", "start": 9236.581, "end": 9250.792, "text": "We need to go further than existing plans, and these amendments close expansion loopholes Create a comprehensive definition of bulk fuels designed for all natural disasters and not just earthquakes, and consider real-world fuel throughput rather than nominal tank capacity, which is all great.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1405", "start": 9250.888, "end": 9255.946, "text": "These amendments address real safety concerns without risking fuel supply shortages where they are truly needed.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1406", "start": 9256.572, "end": 9265.949, "text": "I want to thank Councilor Novick for proposing demand drawdown commitments from the city, especially on transportation, though I'm not sure that a 40% allocation mandate is the answer.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1407", "start": 9266.767, "end": 9273.112, "text": "Transportation is a topic you aren't really supposed to talk about in this city, and I wouldn't disagree that it's been given short shrift in the city and in the state.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1408", "start": 9273.528, "end": 9288.654, "text": "My main concerns with the transportation mandate to PSEF are, one, the planned reductions on greening fuels rather than doing the hard work of mode shift, and two, many existing transportation decarbonization opportunities are largely free or low cost to the city and yet have not been pursued.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1409", "start": 9289.119, "end": 9295.081, "text": "Some examples are the recent rebuild of West Burnside Street, which did not commit to any transformative changes, which could have driven mode shift.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1410", "start": 9295.611, "end": 9307.723, "text": "I'm thinking about the Montgomery Park Streetcar Expansion Project, which will place street parking to the right of streetcar tracks, ensuring future traffic conflicts which slow the streetcar down, making it a less attractive mode for the public.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1411", "start": 9308.076, "end": 9319.259, "text": "I'm thinking about the near removal of bike diverters on Northwest 20th after they'd already been installed, or the removal of a 2-way bike boulevard on Southwest Alder despite it being planned for nearly a decade with no viable parallel route.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1412", "start": 9319.997, "end": 9322.889, "text": "Where was the city in 2025 when public transit was defunded?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1413", "start": 9323.227, "end": 9329.059, "text": "We could lobby the state to improve Amtrak Cascades and/or Union Station, which Prosper Portland owns.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1414", "start": 9329.509, "end": 9335.502, "text": "My hope is to communicate that all these things are connected, and I hope we can keep this work going forward after this discussion as well.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1415", "start": 9335.663, "end": 9335.92, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1416", "start": 9336.563, "end": 9338.137, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1417", "start": 9339.037, "end": 9342.315, "text": "Hello, my name is Kelly Caldwell.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1418", "start": 9342.508, "end": 9366.679, "text": "I live in Southeast Portland, District 3, and I'm speaking in support I'm asking council to focus on 3 things: real emergency preparedness and resilience, actual fuel reduction, and enforceable safety requirements and, and limits in expansion.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1419", "start": 9367.181, "end": 9368.135, "text": "That's more than 3 things.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1420", "start": 9369.448, "end": 9382.323, "text": "I urge you to make the program more meaningful and actionable by establishing measurable reduction targets based on documented fuel volumes and usage and require reporting to council so that they can be monitored.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1421", "start": 9382.981, "end": 9389.016, "text": "If the goal is risk reduction, measuring risk reduction and not just tank capacity is important.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1422", "start": 9390.139, "end": 9397.489, "text": "We should not reduce capacity with one hand while creating pathways for new fuel storage and transloading capacity with the other.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1423", "start": 9398.965, "end": 9402.897, "text": "A smaller tank does not necessarily mean less fuel risk.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1424", "start": 9403.459, "end": 9413.946, "text": "We should use asset actual data to know what is really being stored and look at the safety measures in particular as we move forward on changes.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1425", "start": 9414.862, "end": 9421.463, "text": "28% By 2036 is a long time to wait when the hazard is already here every day.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1426", "start": 9422.957, "end": 9427.872, "text": "The question is not whether fuel infrastructure can be made somewhat safer.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1427", "start": 9428.273, "end": 9440.264, "text": "The question is how much are we willing to, to risk, to leave in place when we know the consequences of major earthquakes and such other disasters can be catastrophic.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1428", "start": 9440.972, "end": 9441.471, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Kelly Caldwell" }, { "id": "cue-1429", "start": 9444.515, "end": 9445.401, "text": "Thank you all very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1430", "start": 9446.71, "end": 9454.463, "text": "Next up, we have Helena Borecki, Marnie Glickman, Sandy Fletcher, Alice Christine Walker, Benjamin Gilbert.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1431", "start": 9468.317, "end": 9468.429, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1432", "start": 9468.574, "end": 9469.46, "text": "Okay, perfect.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1433", "start": 9469.638, "end": 9471.297, "text": "Okay, I'll go first.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1434", "start": 9471.377, "end": 9472.65, "text": "Good afternoon, councilors.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1435", "start": 9472.779, "end": 9474.148, "text": "My name is Marnie Glickman.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1436", "start": 9474.534, "end": 9476.999, "text": "I am the executive director of Braided River Campaign.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1437", "start": 9477.64, "end": 9481.359, "text": "I am happily living in District 2, and I'm a registered city lobbyist.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1438", "start": 9482.208, "end": 9495.037, "text": "For years, many of the Portlanders you heard from today have worked to develop policies to make the CEI Hub safer, with so many hardworking, caring staff members at the Bureau of Planning Sustainability.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1439", "start": 9495.792, "end": 9506.919, "text": "Last night, Councilor Green, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, and their aides burned the midnight oil working together to put a package of amendments together to make this package safer, the proposal better.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1440", "start": 9507.176, "end": 9507.656, "text": "Excuse me.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1441", "start": 9507.897, "end": 9513.072, "text": "And to— and now our hearing is almost over, but our work together is not done.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1442", "start": 9513.905, "end": 9526.387, "text": "We are here day and night with you to help you make this package better and to get it across the finish line to make the CEI hub much safer for our children and for ourselves.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1443", "start": 9527.14, "end": 9531.882, "text": "As we do this final work, I hope you will keep a few Portland values in mind.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1444", "start": 9532.427, "end": 9535.359, "text": "We must acknowledge and repair historical harm.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1445", "start": 9535.423, "end": 9535.567, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-1446", "start": 9536.257, "end": 9538.358, "text": "To successfully move forward.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1447", "start": 9539.144, "end": 9542.657, "text": "Natural resource conservation is essential to healthy communities.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1448", "start": 9543.555, "end": 9546.827, "text": "All people have the right to a safe and healthy environment.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1449", "start": 9547.26, "end": 9550.805, "text": "No one community should be sacrificed for the benefit of another.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1450", "start": 9551.735, "end": 9557.413, "text": "Finally, a thriving economy is best built within the context of a healthy environment.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1451", "start": 9558.167, "end": 9563.396, "text": "Portlanders stopped the Mount Hood Freeway, and we turned another freeway into Tom McCall Waterfront Park.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1452", "start": 9563.444, "end": 9563.829, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1453", "start": 9564.674, "end": 9567.236, "text": "Oregonians have made our beaches public and free.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1454", "start": 9567.693, "end": 9570.124, "text": "We can and must make the CEI Hub safer.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-1455", "start": 9572.283, "end": 9572.654, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1456", "start": 9574.138, "end": 9578.575, "text": "Hi, my name is Sandy Fletcher and I'm from District 3.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1457", "start": 9578.914, "end": 9591.549, "text": "I'm here to urge the City Council to support the green amendments to the CEI Hub project, but it seems necessary to first talk about what it feels like to sit before this council on this day talking about environmental issues.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1458", "start": 9592.454, "end": 9606.799, "text": "I felt compelled to come here and speak today because of the profound disappointment that I and many other Portlanders in District 3 felt after we learned that one of our councilors, Steve Novick, once again voted in lockstep with the interests of fossil fuels and corporate polluters.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1459", "start": 9607.779, "end": 9619.248, "text": "Many of you on the council seem to have forgotten that as our elected representatives, you should be taking your assignment from Portland citizens, not big oil and corporate interests who conduct commerce here.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1460", "start": 9619.296, "end": 9619.585, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1461", "start": 9620.388, "end": 9631.628, "text": "I feel betrayed by all the councilors who have recently voted for the best interests of fossil fuels, but only you, Councilor Novick, ran in 2024 by touting your record as an environmental lawyer.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1462", "start": 9632.431, "end": 9640.523, "text": "What is becoming clear is that many councilors' votes are being corruptly influenced by the Portland Metro Chamber and their political action committee, United for Portland.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1463", "start": 9641.342, "end": 9645.067, "text": "It seems to me that these councilors are selling out Portland.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1464", "start": 9645.436, "end": 9659.645, "text": "And its environment in exchange for campaign endorsements and financial contributions from the Portland Business Alliance, United for Portland, and other groups lobbying to maximize their corporate profit at the expense of every Portlander's future.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1465", "start": 9660.705, "end": 9670.033, "text": "Making Portland a major West Coast hub greatly increases the risk to Portlanders and the city we love while doing very little to benefit our local economy.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1466", "start": 9670.74, "end": 9674.079, "text": "I will end by asking you all a simple question: which side are you on?", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1467", "start": 9674.803, "end": 9685.504, "text": "Portland families or the side of more oil trains, more risk of spills and explosions, more corporate profits, and more risk for Portland's environment for decades to come?", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1468", "start": 9685.681, "end": 9686.293, "text": "Thank you all.", "speaker": "Sandy Fletcher" }, { "id": "cue-1469", "start": 9687.034, "end": 9687.469, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1470", "start": 9691.156, "end": 9692.625, "text": "Hi, my name is Helena Barecki.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1471", "start": 9692.722, "end": 9694.513, "text": "I'm a resident of District 4.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1472", "start": 9695.271, "end": 9700.419, "text": "Um, since I know the industry pressure is powerful, let's address the elephant in the room.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1473", "start": 9701.829, "end": 9710.318, "text": "The combustion fuel industry— and have no illusions, most renewable fuels are produced by the same mega corporations that produce fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1474", "start": 9710.494, "end": 9712.163, "text": "I can give you references.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1475", "start": 9712.981, "end": 9722.914, "text": "And they are who brought us President Trump and his war of delusion in Iran, which has not only blown up people but has blown fuel prices out of the water.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1476", "start": 9723.844, "end": 9740.741, "text": "Additionally, this industry has blown smoke to try to hide the impacts they knew for decades And their product eats into frontline community pocketbooks with asthma care, lung and heart disease, early dementia, and other illnesses.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1477", "start": 9741.914, "end": 9745.16, "text": "Is our economy better because of fossil fuel industry recommendations?", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1478", "start": 9745.771, "end": 9749.209, "text": "Are jobs paying more livable wages, or are they more secure?", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1479", "start": 9749.916, "end": 9754.077, "text": "I want good jobs, but I don't think listening to the fossil fuel industry is the way you get it.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1480", "start": 9754.142, "end": 9754.479, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1481", "start": 9755.715, "end": 9757.288, "text": "I second what Councilor Kanal said.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1482", "start": 9757.801, "end": 9760.048, "text": "There is no economy without people.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1483", "start": 9761.091, "end": 9781.119, "text": "And beyond that, there's a disconnect between this idea that the industry is saying between them, quote, needing the flexibility of more tank storage to help us in a disaster and the fact that a disaster will likely spill fuel into the water and come on fire and prevent more fuel from coming in at the same time.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1484", "start": 9782.05, "end": 9787.988, "text": "So at a minimum, I urge you to support Councilor Green's 3 amendments based on community coalition recommendations.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1485", "start": 9789.336, "end": 9795.242, "text": "I want to highlight that it's essential to eliminate loopholes for all fuels.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1486", "start": 9796.317, "end": 9801.581, "text": "Renewable diesel aviation fuel and renewable natural gas are not safer than fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1487", "start": 9801.854, "end": 9810.408, "text": "Instead, they create the same local hazards, threaten human fuel— I'm sorry, human food supply, water supply, and slow the transition to more efficient electric options.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1488", "start": 9810.553, "end": 9810.745, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Amy Rathfelder" }, { "id": "cue-1489", "start": 9812.22, "end": 9816.047, "text": "Separately, regarding Councilor Novick's Amendment Number 1, I appreciate the intent.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1490", "start": 9816.112, "end": 9825.68, "text": "I am concerned that the 40% requirement is too prescriptive, and I do not want to see money going to the, quote, reduction of diesel emissions by spending money on renewable diesel.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1491", "start": 9827.149, "end": 9829.215, "text": "That contributes nothing to the safety of the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1492", "start": 9829.312, "end": 9830.749, "text": "Thank you for the opportunity to testify.", "speaker": "Helena Barecki" }, { "id": "cue-1493", "start": 9831.93, "end": 9832.274, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1494", "start": 9833.503, "end": 9834.585, "text": "Alice Christine Walker.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1495", "start": 9842.286, "end": 9843.185, "text": "Alice, you're muted.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1496", "start": 9843.43, "end": 9843.774, "text": "There we go.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1497", "start": 9846.392, "end": 9850.324, "text": "I actually don't know if you guys can see me, but either way, um, let my words carry.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1498", "start": 9850.988, "end": 9852.994, "text": "Good afternoon, Mayor and councilors.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1499", "start": 9853.091, "end": 9854.742, "text": "My name is Alice Christine Walker.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1500", "start": 9854.968, "end": 9866.056, "text": "I am a 20-year resident of Portland, a small farmer, and the land use chair for East Columbia neighborhood, testifying today in my personal capacity as an impacted community member.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1501", "start": 9866.931, "end": 9875.108, "text": "I am here in fierce solidarity with our neighbors in Linton and the river communities fighting for real protections at the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1502", "start": 9875.815, "end": 9881.985, "text": "North and Northeast Portland have carried the burden of the city's heavy industrial footprint for far too long.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1503", "start": 9882.82, "end": 9886.821, "text": "Linton carries catastrophic fuel and seismic risks along the Willamette.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1504", "start": 9887.544, "end": 9895.834, "text": "East Columbia absorbs unchecked freight expansion, 24/7 industrial noise, and uncontained runoff along the Columbia River.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1505", "start": 9896.396, "end": 9901.586, "text": "And yesterday we learned our community skies are set to be filled with Amazon delivery drones.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1506", "start": 9902.582, "end": 9909.924, "text": "Both of our communities share the exact same underlying vulnerability: high-risk liquefaction-prone soil.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1507", "start": 9910.952, "end": 9914.069, "text": "EEI Hub risk does not exist in a vacuum.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1508", "start": 9914.631, "end": 9924.721, "text": "It is the direct result of a citywide planning strategy that concentrates high-hazard unvetted industrial uses in Portland's most unstable alluvial soils.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1509", "start": 9925.396, "end": 9942.185, "text": "When you allow heavy industrial operations to expand right next to our homes, our working farmland, without real oversight, you aren't just creating a daily livability crisis, you are compounding our vulnerability to flooding, levee strain, and seismic disaster.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1510", "start": 9943.053, "end": 9951.532, "text": "I am here today to demand that the city finally reckon with the The systemic harm and disparate damage being done to our frontline communities and environment.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1511", "start": 9952.223, "end": 9958.373, "text": "For decades, our neighborhoods have been treated as expendable sacrifice zones for Portland's industrial economy.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1512", "start": 9959.127, "end": 9971.443, "text": "We are calling on the City Council to enact serious, enforceable, comprehensive citywide policy that protects not only our most vulnerable neighborhoods but future generations.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1513", "start": 9971.491, "end": 9971.619, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1514", "start": 9972.597, "end": 9979.663, "text": "As you deliberate on these amendments today, I urge you to vote for the strongest uncompromised protections on the table.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1515", "start": 9980.144, "end": 9984.278, "text": "Do not create industrial carve-outs and do not delay compliance timelines.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1516", "start": 9984.791, "end": 9988.445, "text": "A watered-down safety code protects corporate profits, not human lives.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1517", "start": 9988.957, "end": 9991.697, "text": "Please stop looking the other way while our soils are saturated.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1518", "start": 9991.922, "end": 9993.172, "text": "Thank you very much, Alice.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1519", "start": 9993.22, "end": 9993.845, "text": "Sorry, we're—.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1520", "start": 9993.845, "end": 9998.315, "text": "Acknowledge the harm, stop the bleeding, and protect our river corridors before the next disaster.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1521", "start": 9999.405, "end": 10000.114, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1522", "start": 10001.967, "end": 10002.789, "text": "Benjamin Gilbert.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1523", "start": 10004.804, "end": 10007.06, "text": "Our last testifier today is Michaela McCormick.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1524", "start": 10019.522, "end": 10020.394, "text": "Hello, councilors.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1525", "start": 10020.605, "end": 10021.72, "text": "I'm Michaela McCormick.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1526", "start": 10022.574, "end": 10024.901, "text": "You'll be glad to know I'm your last testifier.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1527", "start": 10025.048, "end": 10026.588, "text": "Maybe that'll help you remember what I say.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1528", "start": 10028.708, "end": 10037.824, "text": "The city's draft of a so-called comprehensive plan is just dancing around the kind of plan needed to transition to a decarbonized economy.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1529", "start": 10038.562, "end": 10045.768, "text": "The world's scientists have pleaded for years to address the ever-growing catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on our climate.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1530", "start": 10046.426, "end": 10067.14, "text": "Continuing to merely regulate the kinds and amounts of fuels in the CEI hub doesn't come close The city needs to immediately begin collaborating with other local, state, and federal governments to devise a concrete transition away from fossil fuels and a sequestration of the carbon in our air.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1531", "start": 10068.069, "end": 10078.357, "text": "Adding more CO2 to an already overloaded atmosphere that is helping to kill millions of humans and more than humans defies logic and any sense of compassion.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1532", "start": 10078.421, "end": 10089.908, "text": "Councilor One crucial step toward that transition is beginning in 2027, the immediate and complete drawdown of the fuels in the CEI hub.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1533", "start": 10090.47, "end": 10097.748, "text": "It needs to include all liquid fuels, including fossil, so-called renewable, and so-called sustainable aviation fuels.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1534", "start": 10098.326, "end": 10101.154, "text": "All of them are combustible and highly toxic.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1535", "start": 10101.716, "end": 10104.994, "text": "There needs to be one definition of fuel that aligns with state regulation.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1536", "start": 10105.074, "end": 10105.267, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Robert McCullough" }, { "id": "cue-1537", "start": 10106.213, "end": 10123.092, "text": "The draft plans need to— the plan needs to be cleansed of any and all loopholes that allow for expansion of fuel storage facilities for new construction, retrofits, expansion of transloading facilities, exemption requests, and fuel transfers.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1538", "start": 10123.589, "end": 10132.021, "text": "There needs to be one review protocol with a clear set of criteria which require demonstrated evidence of reduced risk, increased safety, and public benefit.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1539", "start": 10132.101, "end": 10132.405, "text": "Councilmember Herbold.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1540", "start": 10132.97, "end": 10147.267, "text": "There must be deep and repeated engagement with the impacted communities, particularly the neighboring poor and BIPOC portions, where decision makers are required to respond to concerns before making decisions.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1541", "start": 10147.687, "end": 10159.207, "text": "Finally, and crucially, the plan needs to be include— needs to include consequential incentives for the public to transition away from fossil fuels to truly sustainable energy sources.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1542", "start": 10159.32, "end": 10159.417, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-1543", "start": 10160.153, "end": 10163.744, "text": "Without that, a complete drawdown is not doable.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1544", "start": 10164.786, "end": 10165.122, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-1545", "start": 10165.908, "end": 10166.645, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1546", "start": 10167.591, "end": 10172.897, "text": "Okay, colleagues and the friends of the public, thank you all so much for showing up to testify today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1547", "start": 10172.977, "end": 10175.526, "text": "We have 17 minutes left scheduled for the day.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1548", "start": 10175.623, "end": 10191.271, "text": "That is not enough time for us to meaningfully engage in discussion of the amendments, and so I will preview for the community that we will be back to, uh, hear this and have more public discussion on this on— sorry, grabbing the date— October 1st.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1549", "start": 10191.415, "end": 10193.372, "text": "We'll be back to do more work on this.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1550", "start": 10193.42, "end": 10203.795, "text": "So, uh, councilors, rather than move to any amendments, I'm going to open the queue to see if there's any additional thoughts, comments, or discussion, and then we may get out of here on time.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1551", "start": 10204.068, "end": 10204.613, "text": "Councilor Knoll.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1552", "start": 10205.511, "end": 10207.708, "text": "Yeah, thanks everybody for testifying.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1553", "start": 10207.757, "end": 10209.456, "text": "I really appreciate it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1554", "start": 10209.537, "end": 10223.607, "text": "I did want to note that someone mentioned in testimony looking at Directive G on document, um, I don't know, it's the one that says, uh, city bureaus including PP&D, PBEM, and Portland Fire and Rescue shall continue collaboration and coordination.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1555", "start": 10224.184, "end": 10228.11, "text": "Um, and I would just welcome any specific things there because I'm absolutely going to be looking at that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1556", "start": 10228.19, "end": 10228.719, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1557", "start": 10229.472, "end": 10231.411, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1558", "start": 10232.533, "end": 10232.981, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1559", "start": 10233.734, "end": 10237.18, "text": "I just want to thank everyone for the testimony today.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1560", "start": 10237.404, "end": 10243.178, "text": "Uh, a lot of people I just want to say I didn't work alone on this.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1561", "start": 10243.403, "end": 10245.331, "text": "So there's a number of co-sponsors on this.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1562", "start": 10245.54, "end": 10249.477, "text": "We all worked together to get this there, and we worked with you and the staff.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1563", "start": 10249.557, "end": 10251.102, "text": "So just want to give credit where it's due.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1564", "start": 10251.248, "end": 10251.572, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Rob Galanakis" }, { "id": "cue-1565", "start": 10252.122, "end": 10252.995, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1566", "start": 10255.374, "end": 10256.118, "text": "Okay, colleagues.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1567", "start": 10257.461, "end": 10258.367, "text": "Oh, Councilor Ryan, great.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1568", "start": 10259.667, "end": 10262.325, "text": "Thank you, first of all, for all of you for being here and the testimony.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1569", "start": 10262.827, "end": 10269.162, "text": "For the record, I actually do enjoy Public testimony, and there were some really entertaining moments today, so thank you for that.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1570", "start": 10269.791, "end": 10274.54, "text": "I do want to make sure we have time for a full legal risk review of each amendment.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1571", "start": 10274.653, "end": 10275.859, "text": "Has that already taken place?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1572", "start": 10275.956, "end": 10280.126, "text": "And I just don't know because I also received some of these just prior to the meeting.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1573", "start": 10282.044, "end": 10283.031, "text": "I can direct respond.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1574", "start": 10283.096, "end": 10297.283, "text": "I mean, I can't speak for other amendments, but the ones that are Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Clark, Koyama Lane, Councilor Sameer Kanal, were developed in sort of constant communication with City Attorney Lauren King.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1575", "start": 10298.279, "end": 10307.367, "text": "That's not exactly the same as, you know, pencils up, sit with it for a period of time, and go through a full long think on it.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1576", "start": 10307.415, "end": 10311.622, "text": "And so I think between now and October 1st, I expect that that's what's going to happen.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1577", "start": 10312.393, "end": 10318.413, "text": "But I want you to know we work directly with our land use attorney who has Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1578", "start": 10318.478, "end": 10320.172, "text": "And did you want to add anything, Lauren?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1579", "start": 10322.37, "end": 10323.688, "text": "Not, not in the council meeting.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1580", "start": 10325.707, "end": 10333.566, "text": "And then my other question is, um, I'm trying to sort through all of the amendments within the amendment that you all did.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1581", "start": 10333.743, "end": 10334.548, "text": "Good work, by the way.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1582", "start": 10335.035, "end": 10340.379, "text": "And the one that I want to separate and spend more time on is the aviation fuel exception.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1583", "start": 10341.126, "end": 10348.142, "text": "Would that be possible, or is it all I can't tell if it's a separate amendment within amendments or—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1584", "start": 10348.142, "end": 10351.764, "text": "I'm getting the nod from the council president that it's okay to respond.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1585", "start": 10352.296, "end": 10352.377, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Sarah Kowalewski" }, { "id": "cue-1586", "start": 10352.457, "end": 10355.871, "text": "I'm used to us being able to do this, so sorry, I have old habits.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1587", "start": 10355.952, "end": 10364.363, "text": "The reason that we formatted the amendment in the way that it is formatted is to make it easier to guide ourselves to discussion of different concepts.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1588", "start": 10364.929, "end": 10366.982, "text": "It is introduced as a single amendment.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1589", "start": 10367.781, "end": 10371.521, "text": "I would say as a co-sponsor, my hope personally is to be able to pass it as a single amendment.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1590", "start": 10371.586, "end": 10389.808, "text": "But I think it's important to note that But it was introduced in that way so that we can dig in on different pieces, think about what's in each of them with those separate listings and headers to guide us to those places, knowing that there would be portions of the amendment that are potentially—.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1591", "start": 10390.786, "end": 10392.855, "text": "That potentially raise more questions than others.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1592", "start": 10392.999, "end": 10395.581, "text": "Like the one I mentioned?", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1593", "start": 10395.693, "end": 10396.671, "text": "Like the one you mentioned.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1594", "start": 10396.896, "end": 10397.233, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ann Turner" }, { "id": "cue-1595", "start": 10397.602, "end": 10401.286, "text": "I'll get out of here since there's not much time But wanted to get that into the record.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1596", "start": 10401.367, "end": 10401.691, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1597", "start": 10401.918, "end": 10402.712, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Ryan.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1598", "start": 10406.669, "end": 10407.849, "text": "Pausing for dramatic effect.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1599", "start": 10408.593, "end": 10420.065, "text": "Okay, colleagues, the hearing on the recommended draft of the CEI Hub Policy Project is continued to an additional meeting before the City Council on October 1st, 2026, at 2:00 PM.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1600", "start": 10420.616, "end": 10431.595, "text": "The hearing on the Bulk Fuel Terminal Capacity Reduction Regulations, amendments to Title 17, Is continued to a meeting before the Portland City Council on October 1st, 2026, also at 2:00 PM.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1601", "start": 10432.316, "end": 10438.775, "text": "As a point of information, we are also tentatively holding time for these items as necessary on October 7th, 2026.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1602", "start": 10439.287, "end": 10442.605, "text": "The record for oral testimony on these 2 ordinances is now closed.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1603", "start": 10443.149, "end": 10448.213, "text": "The written testimony will remain open until 12:00 PM on Thursday, October 1st.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1604", "start": 10451.788, "end": 10452.382, "text": "That doesn't mean—.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1605", "start": 10453.49, "end": 10463.119, "text": "Based on how council deliberations on, uh, based on council deliberations on possible amendments, council may decide to reopen the record for oral or written testimony at a future meeting.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1606", "start": 10464.146, "end": 10467.196, "text": "I'm looking to my land use attorney to see what else I need to say.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1607", "start": 10467.677, "end": 10476.344, "text": "Uh, you did a great job, and I'll just recapture, um, so everyone understands that this item, both of the items are coming back October 1st at 2 o'clock.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1608", "start": 10476.44, "end": 10478.93, "text": "At this At this point, the oral record is closed.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1609", "start": 10479.011, "end": 10490.934, "text": "That means there'll be no more public testimony on that date, but the written record— so your opportunity to submit written testimony remains open until October 1st at noon.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1610", "start": 10492.478, "end": 10500.893, "text": "Council may, in its deliberations on October 1st, decide to reopen the record for additional oral testimony.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1611", "start": 10500.973, "end": 10507.867, "text": "So continue to follow along, uh, because there may be more opportunity for oral testimony, but at this point it is closed.", "speaker": "Lauren King" }, { "id": "cue-1612", "start": 10508.814, "end": 10509.36, "text": "Thank you, Lauren.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1613", "start": 10510.018, "end": 10512.025, "text": "Thank you all so much for your testimony, for being here today.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" }, { "id": "cue-1614", "start": 10512.186, "end": 10513.47, "text": "With that, we are adjourned.", "speaker": "Jamie Dunphy" } ] }