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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS January 13, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
Paper mill ahead of carbon rule Proposal targets emissions cuts already reached in PT BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS
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PORT TOWNSEND — Proposed state regulations requiring the state’s largest industrial emitters to reduce carbon emissions by 5 percent every three years would not affect Port Townsend Paper Corp., because the factory is already within acceptable levels, according to the company. “Port Townsend Paper Corporation is currently in full compli-
ance primarily because of the work we’ve done over the past several years,” said company spokesman Felix Vicino in an email. “And we expect to stay that way.” The state Department of Ecology’s proposed Clean Air Rule would initially apply to about two dozen manufacturing plants, refineries, power plants, natural gas distributors and others that release at least 100,000 metric tons of carbon a year.
Ecology’s proposal would have the threshold drop by 5,000 metric tons every three years — thus applying to more entities until it reaches a point under 70,000 metric tons. The mill is already there, Vicino said, reporting an annual emission of 61,300 metric tons in 2015, a significant decrease from the 2005 level of 151,000 metric tons. “Our current emissions are about 61,300 tons because we have already done much of the work to reduce them,” Vicino said. “Through improved maintenance, operational efficiency improvements and the boiler controls improvements implemented, we have reduced over 59 percent
in about 10 years.” The state listed Port Townsend Paper as one business that could be affected by the proposed rule after 2017 because the list was based on projections based on 2012-13 data, said Ecology spokeswoman Camille St. Onge. No other North Olympic Peninsula businesses were listed on the Ecology website. Vicino said that if emissions never increase above the threshold, the mill will not be in the program because it already did the work. St. Onge agreed that if the reported emissions continue at levels below the threshold, the mill would not be subject to the rule.
Public comment on the proposed rule will be accepted until April 8. Ecology expects to finalize the rule by summer.
Voluntary work “Port Townsend Paper voluntarily started early doing the things this rule targets because it makes sense to do so,” Vicino said. The draft rule comes after Gov. Jay Inslee failed last year to get legislation passed on his ambitious cap-and-trade plan that would have charged industrial facilities a fee for carbon emissions. TURN
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Making peace with what was lost Fire claims records, but man keeps perspective BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Jim Dickie lost 25,000 record albums when his garage caught fire Saturday. He won’t have to start a new collection from scratch, as there are another 8,000 records in his house.
PORT TOWNSEND — The owner of an extensive collection of vinyl records, puzzles and compact discs that burned in a garage fire has come to terms with the loss he estimates at about $100,000. Jim Dickie lost some 25,000 albums, 7,000 CDs and a number of vintage puzzles in a garage fire that erupted at 10:35 p.m. Saturday. “I’ve lived through open heart surgery and cancer,” said Dickie, who moved to his home in the 600 block of Crutcher Road, about 5 miles southwest of Port Townsend, last month and had just finished storing the collection. “You have to put all of this in perspective.” TURN
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Navy: Peninsula SEAL training only proposal Sound, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and on the Washington coast, including Kitsap and Island counties — with most to be used made on anything. “Everything is speculation at two to eight times annually. A training request specific to this point.” She referred further inquiries fiscal year 2016 listed 28 sites. to Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mark Walton, media officer for Navy Special Cycles Warfare Command in San Diego. According to the fiscal year Walton did not return repeated 2016 document, one training cycle calls for comment Tuesday. would be from mid-January to The website www.truthout.org mid-February 2016 and the secpublished two Navy documents ond from mid-February through with a story Monday titled “Pro- mid-April 2016. posed [Naval Special Warfare] According to the 2016 fiscal Training Within the Pacific North year document, the Navy was West.” seeking “environmental and real An overall training request estate support” for six new trainsaid 68 training sites “more or ing areas in addition to 21 already less are requested” in the Puget granted and one in an environ-
Website had said start was near BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Marinas and parks in Clallam and Jefferson counties could be included in a staging area for the Navy’s special forces SEAL teams. But action won’t begin Thursday, as suggested Monday by the website www.truthout.org, a Navy spokeswoman said. “As far as I know, everything is in the very, very beginning planning stages, period,” Navy Region Northwest spokeswoman Sheila Murray said Tuesday. “There has been no decision
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“There has been no decision made on anything. Everything is speculation at this point.” SHEILA MURRAY Navy Region Northwest spokeswoman mental impact statement. The 2016 Navy document listed Port Townsend Marina, Fort Flagler State Park, Indian Island, Port Ludlow, Mats Mats Bay, the Toandos Peninsula and Zelatched Point as training areas in Jefferson County. The overall request also included Sequim Bay State Park in Clallam County and Port Hadlock Marina, Discovery Bay and Fort Worden, Fort Townsend and Dosewallips state parks in Jefferson County.
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Environmental activist Connie Gallant of Quilcene, president of the board of the Olympic Forest Coalition, likened the proposal to the Navy’s planned expansion of electronic warfare range activities over the Olympic Peninsula and noise-generating Navy jet flights emanating from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. “It really is all kind of connected,” she said.
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