Governor Kulongoski Signs Off-Reservation Casino Compact
4/7/05 CASCADE LOCKS, Ore.
"Warm
Springs Tribal chairman Ron
Suppah, right, provides Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski with a promotional
casino hat after the two signed a compact
between the State of Oregon
and the Confederate Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation at a
ceremony in Cascade Locks, Ore.
(AP
Photo)"
"As part of the approval process for the casino, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a gaming compact on Wednesday, moving the Warm Springs tribes toward the building of the first off-reservation casino in Oregon."
"The casino still needs federal approval from the U.S. Interior Department before it can be built. Already, it has drawn fierce criticism from some conservation groups such as the Friends of the Columbia Gorge, who vow to fight the casino at the federal level. They fear a new casino will generate increased pollution and traffic."
"Kulongoski's predecessor, Gov. John Kitzhaber, had turned down the project in 1999 because he opposed off-reservation casinos."
"kgw.com/Friends of Columbia River
Gorge
An aerial view of the land that is the proposed site for a Cascade
Locks casino."
See NorthWest Cable News for full
story (Some
Gorge Casino Money to Help Environment, Education 4/7/05)
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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