- This Business Supports
Whatcom Watch
Article Categories
- Cover Story
- Beaks and Bills
- Dear Watchers
- Being Frank
- Watching Government
- Agriculture
- Ballot Measure
- Bay Cleanup
- Bellingham City Council
- Bellingham Parks
- Beyond Fossil Fuels
- Bird Watching
- Book Review
- Campaign 2016
- Candidates
- Climate
- Commentary
- Community Service Providers
- Community Service Spotlight
- Conservation
- Conservation District Election
- County Charter Review
- County Elections
- Dear Sasquatch
- Development
- Earth
- Editorial
- Education
- Election 2017
- Election 2024
- Election Results
- Energy
- Fossil Fuels
- Full Bloom Farm
- Gardening
- Global Warming
- Guest Author
- Health/Digital
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Human Rights Film Festival
- I-1631
- Incarceration
- Internet
- Journalism
- Kushan Carbon Trust
- Lake Whatcom
- Letter to the Editor
- Life Before Flowers
- Looking Back
- Lummi
- March Election
- Marine Life
- media and publications
- Natural Biology
- Natural History
- Northwest Gardening
- Obituary
- Opinion
- pipelines
- poetrywatch
- Pollution
- Port of Bellingham
- Puget Sound
- Recreation
- Recycling
- Red Wheelbarrow Writers
- Salish Sea
- Salmon
- Salmon Streams and Tributaries
- Solar Power
- Stormwater
- Talk to Us
- Transportation
- Trees and Forestry
- Twenty Years Ago
- Unsung Heroes
- Watch Out!!
- Water
- Whatcom: Chronic & Acute
- Whatcom County Council
- Wildfire
- Wildlife
Previous Issues
Search Results for: giovanni roverso
January 2024
Scrap Metal Meeting Spurs Opposition
by Bill Craven ABC Recycling is the Canadian scrap metal company with eyes on Bellingham for its expansion plans. It already has a lease on the waterfront from a docile and submissive Port of Bellingham where unsightly stacks of … Continue reading
Comments Off on Scrap Metal Meeting Spurs Opposition
December 2021
Post Point Renovations
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from an article about anaerobic digesters and the Post Point plant that appeared in the September 2020 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Giovanni Roverso Anaerobic digesters are projected to replace a pair of aging … Continue reading
Comments Off on Post Point Renovations
Oct/Nov 2021
Harcourt Falls Short on Condo Project
by Giovanni Roverso After Two Missed Deadlines, Will Harcourt Meet Third? You should have been able to see three condominiums rising up from behind the graffiti wall along Granary Avenue by now. The original contracted called for condominium occupancy to begin … Continue reading
Comments Off on Harcourt Falls Short on Condo Project
June 2021
City Council Moves Forward With Single-Use Plastic Ban
by Giovanni Roverso The Bellingham City Council is moving forward with its ban of single-use plastics. The final vote was scheduled for May 24. At a Committee of the Whole meeting on May 10, Councilmember and Committee Chair Hannah Stone … Continue reading
Comments Off on City Council Moves Forward With Single-Use Plastic Ban
June 2021
Whatcom’s Recyclers Face Uncertainty
by Giovanni Roverso Old Town Prepares for Redevelopment Whatcom County’s curbside recycling system went through a bit of a shakeup recently. Sanitary Service Company Inc. (SSC) trucks still collect recycling from customers in Bellingham, Ferndale, Blaine, and much of unincorporated … Continue reading
Comments Off on Whatcom’s Recyclers Face Uncertainty
April 2021
Bellingham Pondering Single-Use Plastic Ban
by Giovanni Roverso The city of Bellingham’s Public Works and Natural Resources Committee began discussing a draft ordinance on single-use plastic in 2020. The ordinance would ban most forms of single-use plastic foodware and hotel personal care mini-containers. However, in … Continue reading
Comments Off on Bellingham Pondering Single-Use Plastic Ban
March 2021
Zero Energy Buildings Promise Affordable Housing
by Giovanni Roverso If people had more affordable housing options to choose from, more people struggling with homelessness would be able to find a place to rent, John Moon, Habitat for Humanity Whatcom executive director said in a statement. When … Continue reading
Comments Off on Zero Energy Buildings Promise Affordable Housing
February 2021
Solar Industry Has Grown in Whatcom County
by Giovanni Roverso Environmental laws have been burgeoning in Washington state recently, despite the federal downplaying of environmental stewardship under the Trump administration. Governor Jay Inslee announced an array of new climate-related policy proposals in mid-December 2020. If passed, these … Continue reading
Comments Off on Solar Industry Has Grown in Whatcom County
December 2020
Washington Conservation Corps Replenishing Bellingham’s Waterways Since 1999
by Giovanni Roverso Like their shoreline neighbors at the heart of the Salish Sea, Whatcom residents are fortunate to live in an iconic region with a taste of the ocean, mountain views and sweeping rainforests, accompanied by a temperate climate. … Continue reading
Comments Off on Washington Conservation Corps Replenishing Bellingham’s Waterways Since 1999
September 2020
Post Point Treatment Plant Renovations
by Giovanni Roverso Big changes, namely anaerobic digesters, are in store for Bellingham’s wastewater treatment plant at Post Point, Fairhaven. The digesters would replace a pair of aging incinerators. They are the core features of the Resource Recovery project which … Continue reading
Comments Off on Post Point Treatment Plant Renovations
