{"id":36462,"date":"2018-08-05T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36462"},"modified":"2018-08-05T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T13:35:11","slug":"portland-oregon-wins-court-battle-to-ban-new-oil-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36462","title":{"rendered":"Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In a big win for the City of Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a ruling<\/a> that the city had not violated the U.S.<\/span>Constitution’s Commerce Clause by voting to ban any new fossil fuel terminals within its\u00a0borders.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This is a major victory for the climate and our communities,\u201d said Maura Fahey, staff attorney at Crag Law Center, which represented environmental groups intervening in the case,\u00a0in a statement.<\/a> \u201cIndustry couldn\u2019t even get its foot in the door of the courtroom to try to overturn the City\u2019s landmark law. This sends a powerful message to local communities that now is the time to take action to protect our\u00a0future.\u201d<\/p>\n

This ruling could have important implications for other communities fighting fossil fuel projects because\u00a0the court ruled that the city’s ban did not violate the Commerce Clause, which is the main argument the oil industry has used against bans like the ones in Portland, Oregon and other\u00a0cities.<\/p>\n

The Commerce Clause gives Congress the sole power to regulate interstate and foreign trade, and oil companies have argued that bans like the one in Portland are impacting interstate trade. With this ruling, the Oregon Court of Appeals has dealt\u00a0a significant blow to that legal\u00a0argument.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This decision sends an important message at a time, when our federal government is dropping the ball on climate change, that cities can and will lead,\u201d said Bob Sallinger<\/a>, Conservation Director at Portland Audubon\u00a0Society.<\/p>\n

Port Cities Targeted by Industry for\u00a0Exports<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Canadian tar sands industry has been looking for more ways to get its product to foreign markets, especially after the cancellation of TransCanada’s\u00a0Energy East pipeline<\/a>\u00a0to Quebec and New Brunswick and the delays in the Trans\u00a0Mountain pipeline expansion<\/a>\u00a0in British\u00a0Columbia.<\/p>\n

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Portland, Oregon Wins Court Battle to Ban New Oil Infrastructure In a big win for the City of Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued a ruling that the city had not violated the U.S.Constitution’s Commerce Clause by voting to ban any new fossil fuel terminals within its\u00a0borders. \u201cThis is a major victory for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[5317,11782,21126,8125,17210],"class_list":["post-36462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-desmog-blog","tag-justin-mikulka","tag-oil-infrastructure","tag-oregon","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36463,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36462\/revisions\/36463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}