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April 2021
What the Frack?
Every day the push for concrete climate action seems to knock at the door, waiting for it to be opened and allowed a seat at the table. In 2008, when Pew Research asked U.S. adults what the top priority for … Continue reading
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January 2020
Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force Celebrates 30 Years
It’s 1988. A barge called Nestucca battles the stormy Pacific as it leaves Grey’s Harbor. A rescue tug comes to its aid. A faulty towline snaps and the tug tears a gash in Nestucca’s bow, releasing its shipment of heavy … Continue reading
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May 2018
Kinder Morgan Suspends Nonessential Spending
This article originally appeared on the Sightline Institute website sightline.org and is reprinted with permission. It’s a High-stakes Showdown of Cinematic Proportions In a surprise Sunday afternoon [April 8] announcement, the company backing a huge oil pipeline proposal in British … Continue reading
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March 2018
Another Disappointing Year For King Coal
This article is reprinted with permission from Sightline. A few silver linings, but mostly dark clouds for the coal industry. Despite the Trump administration’s promise of a coal industry rebound, data from the US Energy Information Administration show that King Coal … Continue reading
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Oct/Nov 2016
Letter From the Standing Rock Protectors
Hundreds of tribes from the United States and Canada are gathered along the Cannonball River next to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. They’ve come together to stand as one in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The … Continue reading
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Oct/Nov 2016
Carbon Tax Initiative On November Ballot
In the last year, Washington tate has been the center of many environmental efforts — from the governor’s Clean Power Plan to our county fighting to ban fossil fuel exports. Among these many battles against climate change has been a … Continue reading
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July 2016
Locals Work to Make Public Aware of Major Carbon Tax Proposal
Armed with clipboards, flyers and eye-catching bright green buttons, Rheanna Johnston and three other young volunteers spent a rainy Saturday, June 18, ringing doorbells and knocking on doors. They canvassed Bellingham to inform residents about I-732, a proposed initiative … Continue reading
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July 2016
Spills and Chills in Print
Reviewed by Terry Wechsler Superspill An Account of the 1978 Grounding at Bird Rocks by Mary Kay Becker and Patricia Coburn Madrona Press, 1974 161 pages, paperback, $3.95 ISBN 10: 0914842021 ISBN-13: 978-0914842026 Bellingham’s Mary Kay Becker sits on the … Continue reading
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June 2016
Coming Soon: The Frankenstein Zombie Terminal?
On May 9, 2016, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responded to the Lummi request of January 2015 that it deny federal permits for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) in accordance with the Treaty of Point Elliot of 1855. … Continue reading
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June 2016
Gateway Pacific Coal Port Rejected — At Last
by Michael Riordan This article is an updated and expanded version of an article originally published in the online journal Orcas Issues. In the end, after five arduous years of coal and controversy, it all came down to fish. On … Continue reading
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