Bill Text: OR HJR9 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Governor to withdraw from Western Climate Initiative.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HJR9 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HJR9-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                    House Joint Resolution 9

Sponsored by Representative THATCHER (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Governor to withdraw from Western Climate Initiative.

                        JOINT RESOLUTION
  Whereas there has been no credible economic analysis of the
costs associated with carbon reduction mandates and the
consequential effects of an increase in the costs of doing
business in Oregon; and
  Whereas forcing business, industry and food producers to reduce
carbon emissions through government mandates and cap-and-trade
policies under consideration for the Western Climate Initiative
will increase the cost of doing business, push companies to do
business with other states or nations and increase consumer costs
for electricity, fuel and food; and
  Whereas the Congressional Budget Office warns that the cost of
cap-and-trade policies will be borne by consumers and will place
a disproportionately high burden on poorer families; and
  Whereas simply reducing carbon emissions in Oregon will not
have a significant impact on international carbon reduction,
especially while countries like China, Russia, Mexico and India
emit an ever increasing amount of carbon into the atmosphere; and
  Whereas a tremendous amount of economic growth would be
sacrificed for a reduction in carbon emissions that would have no
appreciable impact on global concentrations of carbon dioxide;
and
  Whereas no state or nation has enhanced economic opportunities
for its residents or increased gross domestic product through
cap-and-trade or other carbon reduction policies; and
  Whereas Europe's cap-and-trade system has been undermined by
political favoritism and accounting tricks, and has failed to
achieve the carbon reduction targets; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  We, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly, urge
the Governor to withdraw from the Western Climate Initiative.
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