Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.. like the fact that Intalco is cutting jobs all on its own, or that the coal industry is going bust, or that the Lummis have treaty rights, or that is the site of a marine reserve with several species that have been designated as biologically significant. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Cherry Point
Rick Larsen, protecting environment or supporting coal? / Facebook post, Sj Robson
December 13, 2015 Sandy Robson
Until Congressman Rick Larsen withdraws his support for GPT, his proclamations about his efforts to protect Washington state’s environment, ring hollow. Continue reading
Crossways with the Railroads
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Bob Simmons
Before Whatcom County citizens had a chance to speak their minds about closing Valley View Road, state and federal agencies appeared to have settled the matter.[…] Continue reading
Time to Tell Senators to Say NO to Amendment 13 Limiting Treaty Rights / Facebook post, Sj Robson
6 mins December 3, 2015 Sandy Robson ACTION
Politicians working on behalf of SSA Marine/Pacific International Terminals’ Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal (GPT) and coal industry interests, have managed to propose an amendment (#13) which would prohibit the denial of a permit for the construction, operation, or maintenance of an export facility until all reviews required under NEPA are complete. Continue reading
Climate Marchers: Listen with Your Heart / Cheryl Crooks Photography, Cheryl Crooks
I had planned to write something else for my blog post today, but decided after participating in today’s Climate March that I needed to write about this instead.
Melting Point / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Tim Johnson
MELTING POINT: Think of it as a mathematical formula that describes a physical reality: A metal melts at a precise temperature. It takes an equally exact amount of energy—expressed in thermal units—to produce that temperature. […]
A Page Right out of the GPT Playbook / Facebook post, Sj Robson
November 10, 2015 at 11:15am
The author of this letter to the editor [in this week’s Bellingham Herald] is Debra Scott. Continue reading
PDC Complaint Filed against Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals LLC) / Noisy Waters Northwest
October 30, 2015 Dena Jensen
As if you didn’t know it in your heart of hearts! Here’s an inside look by way of this Public Disclosure Commission complaint at how things went down when and where we, the public, couldn’t see it, with the last minute emergence of the Clear Ballot Choices political action committee formed by Gateway Pacific coal terminal project co-owner (with Cloud Peak Energy) and SSA Marine subsidiary, Pacific International Terminals. Continue reading
Trick or Treaty / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Tim Johnson
TRICK OR TREATY: The coal industry zombies and their hobgoblins were haunting Cherry Point again last week—Montana delegates and corporate shills arriving in hungry packs to scan our coast with red-rimmed eyes, drooling it might someday be theirs.[…] Continue reading
What Do Coal Port Interests’ Clear Choices Mean? / Coal Stop, Sandy Robson
10/23/2015 Facebook comment by Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals LLC) Campaign Manager and Committee Chair Ron Reimer after the date the PAC registered with the PDC.
October 26, 2015 Sandy Robson
News broke this past weekend in Whatcom County about a last minute coal terminal-funded PAC, formed by Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) applicant Pacific International Terminals LLC, to support Charter Review Commission-generated Props 1, 2, and 3, and to oppose citizen-proposed Prop 9, placed on the November election ballot, via ordinance, by the Whatcom County Council. The PAC is named Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals, LLC). Continue reading
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