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December 4th, 2013 | Tags: 1996 agreement, 2001, 2001 Instream Flow Rule, April 14, City of Anacortes, Commissioner Sharon Dillon, Department of Ecology and Skagit County, Jacque Klug, John Roozen, Kyle Brown, Loranger, rural landowners, Skagit landowners, Skagit PUD, Skagit River Basin, state Department of Ecology, Supreme Court ruling, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tom Loranger, water meeting | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:00 am
MOUNT VERNON — State officials urged Skagit landowners Tuesday to “start fresh” and not rehash the past fights over water rights as the state searches for solutions.
“We’ve lost 12 years. And now we’re back to where we started from,” said Tom Loranger, program manager of the water resources program at the state Department of Ecology. “My hope is that we can start…with [...]
Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology Seeks to Ease Tensions at Water Meeting
November 22nd, 2013 | Tags: Brian Cladoosby, Jacque Klug, Salmon, Skagit County, Skagit River, Skagit River Basin, Stillaguamish River, Sun Peaks Estates, Swinomish Tribe, Wash. State Dept. of Ecology, water rights | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:00 am
Seven landowners in the Skagit River’s Carpenter-Fisher sub-basin have reached a settlement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and the state Department of Ecology that will allow them to get water to their properties.
Landowners in the Sun Peak Estates subdivision, located about one mile south of the Skagit County line and east of Interstate 5, will each be able to use 350 [...]
Continue reading Tribal & Wash. State Pact Allows Some in Carpenter-Fisher Sub-Basin to Use Water
October 10th, 2013 | Tags: 2001 Skagit Instream Flow Rule, 2006 reservations, 500 landowners, instream flow, Maia Bellon, Skagit Basin well owners, Skagit County, Skagit River system, Swinomish, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v.Department of Ecology, Wash. Dept. of Ecology, Washington State Supreme Court | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Joint News Release: Washington State Department of Ecology and Swinomish Indian Tribal Community – October 10, 2013 (13-258)
Ecology and Swinomish Tribe agree 2001-2013 Skagit groundwater use secure while water supply solutions are developed
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will not require Skagit Basin well owners who established groundwater rights between April 14, 2001, and Oct. 2, 2013, to curtail their water use after a recent court decision overturned a 2006 state water rule.
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Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology and Swinomish Tribe Agree on Temporary Groundwater Use
October 7th, 2013 | Tags: 1 million square-foot bolting plant, 5 million gallons of water per day, Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, governmental transparency, largest bottling plant in North America, Mayor Maxwell, rail lines, Steve Winter, terminates water contract with Anacortes, Tethys 30 acres of land, Tethys Enterprises, Tethys letter of termination, Washington bottling plant | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:15 am | Updated: 1:38 pm, Thu Oct 3, 2013.
By Mark Stayton
ANACORTES — Tethys Enterprises recently terminated its water contract with Anacortes, cutting the last ties to a long and controversial project to build a 1 million square-foot bottling plant there.
Tethys notified Anacortes that it would stop pursuing the proposed plant on Sept. 9, Anacortes Mayor Dean Maxwell said previously.
In a letter dated Oct. 1 [...]
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October 26th, 2012 | Category: Health, Legal, Oregon, United States | Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission today rejected a petition from Northwest Environmental Advocates to increase regulation of pesticides that can harm salmon and steelhead on the endangered species list.
The commission voted 5-0 to reject the petition from Nina Bell, the environmental group’s director. Among other measures, Bell’s petition would have required significantly increased buffer zones for spraying certain pesticides near streams.
The petition focused on pesticides that the National Marine Fisheries Service has identified as harmful to [...]
Continue reading Oregon Environmental Quality Commission rejects petition for more pesticide regulation
October 22nd, 2012 | Category: Health, Legal, News, Oregon, United States | Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 16, 2012. The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) is looking to revamp the way it enforces the 1993 Agricultural Water Quality Management Act in order to decrease the amount of pesticides that end up in the state’s waterways from agricultural nonpoint source pollution. The new plan, which was unveiled last December, will work by taking a firmer approach than the current plan, which on sporadic complaints for enforcement and cooperative action by residents through soil and water conservation [...]
Continue reading Oregon’s Department of Agriculture Looks to Protect Waterways from Pesticide Runoff
October 21st, 2012 | Category: Legal, Nestlé, Other States, United States | By Gavin Broady
Law360, New York (October 11, 2012, 1:36 PM ET) – Nestle Waters North America Inc. has been selling bottles of municipal tap water and falsely marketing it to consumers as 100 percent natural, spring-sourced water, according to a putative class action removed to Illinois federal court Wednesday.
Plaintiff Chicago Faucet Shoppe Inc. claims that Nestle — which removed the suit to federal court — has falsely represented to consumers that 5-gallon bottles of Ice Mountain water [...]
Continue reading Nestle Peddling tap Water As Spring Water, Suit Claims
October 20th, 2012 | Category: Legal, News, Oregon, United States | October 19, 2012
GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — The state of Oregon has denied a water permit for an Australian mining company that wants to develop a gravel pit along a tributary of the Rogue River.
The Oregon Department of Water Resources said there is already too much water being taken out of Grave Creek, which flows into the Rogue at the start of the section that is one of Oregon’s most popular whitewater runs.
Water rights program manager Tim [...]
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http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/10/05/first-nation-launches-constitutional-challenge-to-shell-canada-expansion-in-oil-sands/
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation spokesperson Eriel Deranger speaks out against the oilsands at a recent event in Vancouver.
by David P. Ball Indian Country Today October 5, 2012
A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the vast industrial development, which has generated controversy because of its massive carbon footprint, untreated tailings ponds and at [...]
Continue reading First Nation launches constitutional challenge to Shell tar sands expansion
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