2 hrs August 30, 2015 Wendy Harris ACTION
IT IS NOT RESTORATION WHEN YOU REMOVE ALL VEGETATION AND ALL WILDLIFE, BULLDOZE EVERYTHING AND CLAIM THINGS WILL GET BETTER IN THE FUTURE. FOR WHOM? Continue reading
Tag Archives: Whatcom County
No Fine for Nooksack Nine / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
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
Status of COB Streams: Justification For A Stronger CAO / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
16 hrs August 25, 2015 Wendy Harris
According to the City of Bellingham’s 2014 Stream Monitoring Report:
“The status of Bellingham’s urban streams for the period ending in 2014 is mixed. Only Hanna Creek was able to meet all Department of Ecology standards ensuring the highest water quality. Continue reading
Keep getting the word out / Noisy Waters Northwest, Dena Jensen
August 24, 2015 Dena Jensen
Hey, today is the one-year anniversary of the Coal Stop blog. I had no idea when I started it, whether it would still be alive 365 days (or 7 days, for that matter) down the road. Continue reading
Bellingham Herald Article Regarding Bikes… Interesting Comments / Politics Whatcom, James Gibson
August 20, 2105 James Gibson
Since I don’t have Facebook account and therefore can’t comment on Bellingham Herald articles, I decided to make a blog post addressing some of the comments on one specific article, where I found many false and inflammatory comments as a bicyclist (the article is about bicycle projects/ safety). Continue reading
My message to Montana Congressman Zinke / Facebook post, Sj Robson
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
Fatal Flaw In City/County Critical Area Ordinance Must Be Fixed / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
14 hrs August 20, 2015 Wendy Harris ACTIONPlease mark your calendars for next Thursday for the COB planning commission hearing on the Critical Area Ordinance. Continue reading
Whatcomcentric, Political, and Wonky Charter Stuff / Reading the Washington Landscape, Dan McShane
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Dan McShane
I previously posted about the obscure Charter Commission (charter-review-whatcomcentric). This post is a modified version updating where things are at. Continue reading
Ballew to Daines: ‘That day is no more’ / Coal Stop, Sandy Robson
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
COB Issues a SEPA Addendum To the Critical Area Ordinance Updates / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
9 hrs August 17, 2015 Wendy HarrisThe SEPA review is the environmental analysis required under state law to determine if there will be significant impacts, and if so, whether they can be mitigated. Continue reading
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