November 13, 2015 at 7:24pm “Clear Ballot Choices” is behind a 2016 referendum petition which was filed with the Whatcom County Auditor on August 6, 2015. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Coal
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
Snuffing out coal on the front page / Noisy Waters Northwest, with gratitude to The Western Front
Election Day, November 3, 2015 Dena Jensen
Dear Western Front,
You know how there are dream-weddings, and dream-homes, and dream-boats? Thanks for serving up a dream-headline on your front page today. 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
Musical interlude: “Leave it in the Ground” by Tracy Spring/ Noisy Waters Northwest
October 26, 2015 Dena Jensen
Today, there is a great, fresh musical YouTube video by Bellingham songwriter Tracy Spring that is being shared about on Facebook. Continue reading
The coal wizard behind the curtain has been revealed! / Facebook post, Coal Stop
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” – From the movie, The Wizard of Oz
October 25, 2015 Dena Jensen
There is a newly discovered, fully blackened Political Action Committee: Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals LLC). Continue reading
More reasons NOT to vote for Gary Jensen for Port of Bellingham Commissioner / Facebook post, Sj Robson
3 hrs October 24, 2015 Sandy Robson
Port of Bellingham candidate Gary Jensen finally got around to filing his campaign contributions (late). In reviewing those Public Disclosure Commission C3 reports, I can see why he waited. Continue reading
Things might have gotten a little too hot for the Whatcom Tea Party / Facebook post, Sj Robson
15 hrs October 24, 2015 Sandy Robson
Tonight DOVE Whatcom PAC Facebook deleted a comment I made and blocked my ability to comment, and deleted everyone’s comments on that thread. I had replied to a comment (shown in the screenshot photo) by Sandra Belzer Brendale from Yakima, on an Oct. 21 Facebook post on DOVE. Continue reading
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