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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, 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
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)
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
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: climate legislative and legislative work group, climate skeptics, conceptual agreement, Ferndale, Governor Jay Inslee, Joe Fitzgibben, Science Applications International Corp., Sen. Doug Ericksen, Washington carbon footprint, Washington carbon pollution | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Showdown postponed on sweeping carbon-pollution policies for State. Climate panel likely to continue next year. Dec. 19, 2013 By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
The Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup holds a public hearing last week. Left to right, state Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas, filling in for Shelley Short, R-Addy, Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, and Joe Fitzgibbon, R-Des Moines; non-member Rep. Jake Fey, D-Tacoma is in second row.
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Continue reading Climate Task Force Cancels Final Meeting–No Recommendation for 2014 on Cap and Trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standards
Senate Question 10-29-12
Link to article and video.
by WABI-TV5 News Desk – October 29th 2012 11:09am – Read more 2012 Candidate Profiles
The campaign trail is heating up as the campaign season winds down.
TV 5 has been featuring the three major candidates running to replace Sen. Olympia Snowe in the U.S. senate.
We asked our Facebook fans to post questions, and we then posed those to Angus King, Cynthia Dill and Charlie Summers. Here […]
Continue reading Senate Candidates share position on E/W Corridor
Plus this update: LePage’s private dealings with TarSand companies
Defending Water for Life in Maine and Stop the East-West Corridor members have anticipated exposure of the link between tar-sands oil and the East-West Corridor due to pressure to get the oil from Alberta to east coast ports.
While other environmental groups are focused on opposing the reversal of the Portland-Montreal Enbridge pipeline to transport tar sands from Montreal to Portland, we believe the East-West Corridor is a very viable option […]
Continue reading E/W Alert! Canada to send Tar Sands Oil East, all articles here!
The first article, East-West Maine highway may be privately built toll road, is from October 23 and announces Brown’s upcoming October 29 meetings in Aroostook County. This provides a good outline of proponent talking points.
The second article, Proposed Highway To Bring Great Development, is from October 29. It includes a video with many of Brown’s powerpoint slides, which are new. One new selling point includes a multi-use recreation trail. Also of note, the reporter says […]
Continue reading Darryl Brown in Caribou – 2 Articles
In 2009, there was a huge pot bust in Washington County. Then just last week, federal prosecutors in Maine said that they may seize most of Township 37. There is additional land in surrounding townships that may also be seized, pending the outcome of this case.
About 5 miles of this land goes along the Stud Mill Road, and lies dead on the proposed East-West Corridor route.
Here are links to several news stories:
Drug Forfeiture May Lead […]
Continue reading E/W Alert! Drug Forfeiture May Lead to Seizure of Township 37
September 26th, 2012 | Category: Maine, News, Statewide, United States | Mill executives say Maine paper industry viable, but there are challenges
By Andrew Neff | September 26, 2012
Link to Original Article
Continue reading Paper Industry mostly wants Rail Connection
By Dawn Gagnon, BDN Staff | Sept. 13, 2012, at 11:44 p.m
Link to Original Article & Video
BANGOR, Maine — Given its location, if Maine is to prosper in the evolving global economy, it must take advantage of every potential opportunity that it can.
And when it comes to competing, the state needs to address some major shortcomings in terms of getting goods and products to major markets in the Midwest and such major Canadian cities […]
Continue reading Peter Vigue takes east-west highway gospel to forest resources group
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