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 A collaboration by Oregon HEAT with an award winning oil recycler is preserving Oregon’s environmental quality while helping families in need. Oregon HEAT and Oil Re-Refining Company (ORCCO) are working to recycle oil from decommissioned oil tanks and from contaminated oil products produced by Oregon businesses and industries.
With the price of oil at a record high and the strain those prices put on low income households, this innovative program is catching a lot of attention in neighboring states, as well as nation-wide, according to Roger Rees, Oregon HEAT Executive Director. “The recent record-breaking costs of heating oil can leave families with a terrible choice – heat their home or pay for food or health care,” Rees says. "ORCCO’s commitment to the community will make a huge difference for local families in crisis – not to mention the difference it will make to our ecosystem."
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By Melissa Torgerson, Oregon Housing & Community Services
February 7, 2008
Every Oregonian is impacted by skyrocketing energy costs, however, rising prices influence low income households disproportionately. For example, in 2006, the poorest 68,000 Oregonians (≤ 50% of federal poverty level) were paying over 36% of their monthly budget toward utility bills.
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The CAPO Low-Income Energy
Assistance Snapshot
By Jim Abrahamson
Community Action Partnership of Oregon
Each January the Community Action
Partnership of Oregon (CAPO) produces the Oregon Low-Income Energy
Assistance Snapshot. The Snapshot reports on the status of
low-income bill payment assistance programs throughout Oregon during
a one week period in January. This year, the Snapshot will cover
the week of January 14 – 18, 2008.
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