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February 14th, 2014 | Tags: 100-car oil trains, Anacortes, Functions and Values of Wetlands, Improving Rail Integrity, JARPA, Keystone XL Project, March's Point Heron Colony, oil trains, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve, PEIS, PHS Single Page Management Recommendations: Great Blue Heron, Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Shell Oil, Shell PSR Mitigation Bank Use Plan, Shell SEPA Checklist, Track Safety Standards, Washington train disaster | Category: Action Alerts, Action Alerts, Community Rights, Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, Statewide, United States, Video, Washington | Tom Glade, President
Evergreen Islands, Anacortes, Wash.
PUBLIC COMMENT DEADLINES (MONDAY IS PRESIDENTS DAY!):
BY HAND: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 3:30 PM BY MAIL (ANACORTES PO): SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 15, 1:30pm BY INTERNET: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM BY FAX: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM (FAX: 360-336-9416)
Since Skagit County’s environmental review is only about potential environmental impacts
that occur on Shell’s property, the environmental impacts of oil train disasters en route will not
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Continue reading Proposed Shell/Equilon Oil Train Terminal, Anacortes
February 5th, 2014 | Tags: Brent Bower, Dan Partridge, Lower Columbia Basin 45 percent of normal, Natural Resources Conservation Service in Mount Vernon, Olympic peninsula basin 50 percent less than average, Scott Pattee, snowpack levels 50 percent less than average, Washington drought, Washington dry weather, Washington possible drought, Washington snowpack levels | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Seattle Times, Jan. 31, 2014
Officials monitoring lower than usual snowpack levels in Washington state say it’s not time to panic, but they’re nevertheless preparing in case of a possible drought.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE —Officials monitoring lower than usual snowpack levels in Washington state say it’s not time to panic, but they’re nevertheless preparing in case of a possible drought.The Department of Ecology plans to ask the Legislature for drought-relief money in case dry [...]
Continue reading Dry Winter Causes Concerns About Possible Drought
February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: Advanced H2O, Advanced Refreshment, bottled water, Concrete, Jason Miller, LTI Inc., Niagara Bottling Company, Superior Spring, Wash. | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | By Kimberly Cauvel | Jan. 28, 2014
CONCRETE — The town decided Monday to turn down Niagara Bottling’s interest in purchasing its pristine water, partly to protect the town’s ongoing relationship with another bottling company and partly because of a lack of detail in Niagara’s request.
An LTI Inc. driver fills two trailers with water from the town’s well in April 2011. LTI transports the water to Advanced H20 in Burlington for bottling. [...]
Continue reading Concrete, Wash., Turns Down Bottler’s Request to Buy Town’s Water
February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: 200 miles of tributaries, 464 miles of salmon-rich Olympic Peninsula rivers, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Dave Reichert, Illabot Creek, Middle Fork Snoqualmie, national Wild and Scenic Rivers system, Oregon's rivers, Pasco Republican Rep. Doc Hastings', Pratt River, Reagan Dunn, Rep. Derek Kilmer, Sen. Patty Murray, Skagit's wintering bald eagles, Washington rivers, Wild Olympics bill | Category: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States, Washington | Congress should approve bills adding more Washington rivers to the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system, where the state is now woefully underrepresented.
Seattle Times Editorial
GABRIEL CAMPANARIO / THE SEATTLE TIMES MORE than 1,900 miles of Oregon’s rivers are protected in the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
Washington, in contrast, has fewer than 200 designated miles. That’s downright embarrassing for a state with thousands of miles of rivers that clearly [...]
Continue reading Time to Catch Up to Oregon in Protecting Rivers
January 19th, 2014 | Tags: 81 killer whales, Center for Biological Diversity, Killer whales, National Marine Fisheries Service protect critical habitat, Puget Sound killer whales, Sharah Uhlemann, Southern Resident population, Southern Residents | Category: Action Alerts, Action Alerts, Feature, News, United States, Washington | January 16, 2014
Center for Biological Diversity.
Contact: Sarah Uhlemann, (206) 327-2344, suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org
Declining Salmon Populations, Pollution, Ocean Noise Threaten Iconic Species Off Coasts of Washington, Oregon, California
Photo courtesy NOAA.
SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal petition today with the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect more critical habitat for the endangered Southern Resident population of killer whales. If successful the proposal would extend Endangered [...]
Continue reading Expanded Habitat Protection Sought for Endangered Killer Whales on the West Coast
January 18th, 2014 | Tags: Cherry Point coal export terminal, coal industry, fundamental environmental laws, largest coal export terminal in North America, stand up against efforts to weaken SEPA, Tiffany McGuyer, Washington Department of Ecology, Washington Senate Environment and Economic Development, Washington SEPA | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Wash. Conservation voters Tiffany McGuyer @ wcvoters.org
Jan. 17, 2014
When a proposal was created to build the largest coal export terminal in North America – you got loud. Over 124,000 concerned citizens submitted comments and more than 8,200 people attended hearings on the Cherry Point coal export terminal.
Thankfully, the Department of Ecology determined that such an unprecedented project deserved a comprehensive review.
Yet yesterday, a joint work session in the [Wash.] State Legislature by the Senate Environment [...]
Continue reading Stand Up for Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
January 16th, 2014 | Tags: 25 acres of wetlands, Alaska oil decreasing, Anacortes 100-car trains carrying Bakken oil, Anacortes North Dakota's Bakken oil, Bakken oil, build new wetlands, Burlington, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway line onto Shell property, East March Point Road, March Point, Mount Vernon, Nookachamps Wetlands Mitigation Bank, Paul Queary, Shell Anacortes refinery, Shell Oil, Shell's Puget Sound Refinery, Skagit River, Thomas Rizzo | Category: Anacortes, Feature, News, United States, Washington |
Shell Oil Company located on March Point, Anacortes, Wash.
Posted by: Mark Stayton for Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash. in Bakken News, Energy, Dec. 21, 2013
ANACORTES — Shell’s Puget Sound Refinery on March Point is moving closer to building a rail offloading facility for crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation now that high-level design [...]
Continue reading Anacortes–Shell’s Bakken Rail Unloading Facility Moves Forward
January 15th, 2014 | Tags: Anacortes Ad Hoc Committees, Anacortes Community Coordination Commission, Anacortes First-Year Outlook, Anacortes Mayor's Advisory Committee, Anacortes Transition Team, Brad Adams, Coffee with Laurie Gere, Eric Johnson, Erica Pickett, Gere-a-Deli, John Archibald, Liz Lovelett, Matt Miller, Mayor Dean Maxwell, Mayor Laurie Gere, Ryan Walters | Category: Feature, News, Uncategorized, United States, Washington | Alliance for Democracy note: Mayor Laurie Gere defeated incumbent Mayor Dean Maxwell, 62 percent to 38 percent of the vote. Mayor Maxwell had promoted a water agreement with Tethys Enterprises in order to build the largest bottling plant in North America, which would have been entitled to five million gallons of water per day. The bottling plant had been a hot issue that worked against the vote for Mayor Maxwell.
Mayor Gere ready with plan for 2014
First-Year Outlook [...]
Continue reading Anacortes Mayor Gere Wants Open and Transparent Government
December 20th, 2013 | Tags: acting deputy director of NOAA's Coastal Services Center, EPA, Gov. John Kitzhaber, John King, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nina Bell;Oregon coastal pollution regulation, NOAA, NOS, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, Oregon 90-day public comment period, Oregon coastal pollution;'Tags: ', ', ', ' | ' million annually, Oregon coho salmon habitat, Oregon logging, Oregon pollution from aging and leaky septic systems, Oregon storm water management for new development, Oregon water pollution;Northwest Environmental Advocates, Richard Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: 0-a-month sewer bills, Association of Washington Business, Dave Clark, Department of Ecology, fish consumption issue, HDR Engineering, HDR study, human fish consumption, Kelly Susewind, Maia Bellon, PCBs, plans to adopt new rules for surface-water discharges, populations that eat the most fish, Puget Sound, Schroeder, sewer bills, The Association of Washington Cities, tribal fish consumption, Washington State Association of Counties, Waterkeepers Washington | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Posted December 11th, 2013 ‘Fish consumption’ issue could mean $200-a-month sewer bills — business, local-government organizations sound alarm as Ecology seeks standards no one can meet.
By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
Boise Cascade’s Wallula mill: Pulp and paper industry would be sharply affected.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 10.—$200-a-month sewer bills, anyone? Business and local governments are sounding a new warning about a Department of Ecology plan to impose water-quality standards so tough no one can [...]
Continue reading Study: New Water Quality Standards Would Cost Billions, Produce Little Benefit
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Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution