Our Whatcom County Planning and Development Services Department (PDS), which is part of our County Administration under the direction of County Executive Jack Louws, needs to start being fully transparent with the public in matters relating to the Gateway Pacific Terminal project. Continue reading
Click the link to view a PDF file of the WBA’s SEPA Appeal paper work
–Whatcom Business Alliance’s SEPA appeal of the DNS issued for the Cherry Point Amendments is scheduled for a March 15, 2017 hearing, at 1:30 PM–
The Whatcom Business Alliance (WBA), headed up by President Tony Larson, filed a SEPA appeal of the Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) that was issued by Whatcom County Planning and Development Services, for the Cherry Point Amendments to the 2016 County Comprehensive Plan Update. Continue reading
February 5, 2017
I sent an email letter today to the Whatcom County Planning Commission and the County Council, regarding Tony Larson’s Whatcom Business Alliance’s (WBA) claim that “school districts” are members of the WBA Cherry Point coalition/stakeholder group. I looked into this matter and sent my findings to the Commission and Council. Continue reading
Highlighted excerpt from the January 2017 Whatcom Business Alliance Newsletter. Click the graphic to access the full newsletter.
January 19, 2017 Dena Jensen
Tidbits have been surfacing about educational programs in our region that are being boostered by GPT and Cherry Point fossil fuel industry enthusiasts, The Whatcom Business Alliance (Tony Larson, President) and Liberty Road (affiliated with Kris Halterman of the Whatcom Tea Party, the board of Social Alliance for a Vibrant Economy and host of KGMI’s Saturday Morning Live radio show). In the pics are screen shots of a recent Liberty Road post about the “Growing the Economy with Raspberry Pi,” program in the Burlington-Edison school district and an excerpt from the Jan. 2017 WBA newsletter. Continue reading
January 18, 2017 Dena Jensen
Our dear community friend Paul Anderson has made another wonderful contribution by offering his outstanding photography skills to this important book! Please order a copy and spread the news. Click through [the graphic above] to a great write up on the Huffington post. Continue reading
Page excerpt from “Protecting Treaty Rights, Sacred Places, and Lifeways: Coal vs. Communites,” presented by Jewell James, Lummi Tribal Member and Head Carver, Lummi Tribe’s House of Tears Carvers
January 14, 2017 Dena Jensen
At the most recent Planning Commission meeting on the Cherry Point Amendments this last Thursday, a lady spoke near the tail end of the comment section on the amendments who identified herself as Erin Anderson and said she was speaking on behalf of the Whatcom Business Alliance. Continue reading
January 10, 2017 Wendy Harris
Dear County Council,
As you are aware, it is a fatal flaw in the CAO that the county lacks baselines standards to help measure and monitor the county’s success in meeting no net loss standards. Thus, I had begun reviewing this information on my own in an attempt to help the county better achieve GMA compliance. Continue reading
Click the graphic to listen to the audio recording of the October 27, 2016 Planning Commission work session on the Cherry Point amendments.
Click the graphic to listen to the audio recording of the October 27, 2016 Planning
November 6, 2016 Sandy Robson
Whatcom County Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Royce Buckingham, addressed the County Planning Commission during its October 27th work session on the 2016 Docket Cherry Point Amendments. The attached photo shows an excerpt of the dialogue between Mr. Buckingham and a Planning Commissioner that I transcribed from the County’s posted audio recording of that meeting. Continue reading
Click the graphic to view the November 1, 2016 Cherry Point Memo and attached documents which are part of the meeting materials for the November 10, 2016 Planning Commission work session on the Cherry Point amendments
4:25am November 5, 2016 Wendy Harris
The County Planning Commission is meeting on Thursday, the 10th, (6:30 PM in council chambers) and I was extremely disappointed to review on the agenda the ridiculous “alternative approaches” for the SEPA review, trumped up by the administration in the hopes of derailing the Weimer Cherry Point amendments. Continue reading
November 3, 2016 Wendy Harris
The council agenda for next Tuesday is out.
Want to see how seriously the county really values restoring Lake Whatcom? It is proposing $50,000 for a homeowner incentive program that will go into retrofitting watershed homes to achieve better on site infiltration and reduce stormwater run-off. Continue reading
noisy waters northwest 
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