OREGON'S ENVIRONMENT

NOW PORTLAND IS GETTING UP TIGHT ABOUT SHIPBREAKING IN THEIR BACKYARD!!

OREGON'S ENVIRONMENT: "OREGON'S ENVIRONMENT
No ship-scrapping with weakened DEQ
Friday, January 27, 2006

Give us your tired, your poor, your aging contaminated hulks, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores.

Got an environmentally harmful enterprise that simply won't be tolerated by the regulators in your state? Oregon may be just the new home you are looking for. Anyone harboring the illusion that Oregon has been engaged in anything other than a race to the regulatory bottom in recent years need look no further than the red carpet that state leaders are rolling out to Bay Bridge Enterprises, the ship-scrapper looking to set up shop in Oregon."