by Sandy Robson
An August 13, 2015 joint press release issued by SSA Marine, Cloud Peak Energy, and the Crow Tribe announced that, “the Crow Tribe and Cloud Peak Energy are joining SSA Marine as partners in the Gateway Pacific Terminal.” Continue reading
Fri, Aug 28, 2015, 11:16 am Tip Johnson
The Lummi are fishers and according to an article in the Bellingham Herald are “done talking” about the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal. I don’t blame them. Continue reading
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 Tim Johnson
With August arrives the earliest and most vulnerable of the Cascadia salmonids. Chinook require abundant cold, clean water to spawn, and the challenged species is returning to find the Nooksack River historically low, warm and cloudy with glacial milk.[…] Continue reading
2 hrs August 21, 2015 Dena Jensen ACTION
For over a decade Lummi Elder and House of Tears Carver Jewell James has been creating totem poles and taking journeys to deliver them, which have allowed people to meet together over those totem poles and heal. Continue reading
54 mins August 20, 2015 Sandy Robson ACTION
The recent Herald article (advertisement is more like it) about the Montana delegation coming to town to tour the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal site at Cherry Point really irritated me—for many reasons. Continue reading
Coal train near Coal Strip power plants in Colstrip, Montana. Photo by Nick Mullins, summer 2015
August 15, 2015 Sandy Robson
United States Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) is on a mission. His mission is to do whatever it takes to get the Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT), a 48 million metric-ton-per-year coal export terminal, permitted and built. The GPT project is proposed in Whatcom County, Washington, and would be sited at Xwe’chi’eXen (Cherry Point), along the shoreline, which is part of the Lummi Nation’s traditional fishing area. The company proposing GPT is Pacific International Terminals (PIT), a subsidiary created for the project by SSA Marine. Continue reading
Portion of August 13, 2015, SSA Marine Press Release published on Business Wire online, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150813005969/en/#.Vc6ImkXfUu0
19 hrs August 13, 2015 Sandy Robson
Let’s review this bs partnership: Continue reading
Steve Daines is not happy with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and that agency’s decisions about the handling of the review process for the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal pier proposed for Cherry Point.[…] Continue reading
21 hrs July 25, 2015 Sandy Robson
I like Lloyd Zimmerman. I’m voting for him for Port of Bellingham Commissioner. I’ve gotten to know him over the last year and a half, not super-well, but well enough to want to support his candidacy, and to call him a friend. Continue reading
by Sandy Robson
After reading their 2015 Whatcom County Voters’ Pamphlet, some voters could wonder if Port of Bellingham Commissioner candidate Gary Jensen’s pants are on fire. Current Ferndale Mayor Gary Jensen’s candidate statement in the “Whatcom County Official Local Voters’ Pamphlet” seems to be an odd manifesto which contradicts the mayor’s actions. Continue reading
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