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Previous Issues
Cover Story
July 2024
Upcoming: Major Increase in Oil Tanker Traffic
Are we ready? Completion of a Canadian pipeline expansion means more crude-carrying vessels passing through the Salish Sea en route to the Pacific, amplifying spill concerns. Jointly published by Salish Current and Washington State Standard. Editor’s Note: Whatcom Watch has … Continue reading
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July 2024
Articles You Might Have Missed
Climate Good News Around the world people are taking the initiative to mitigate climate change. Here are some good news briefs compiled by the Climate Issue group of the LWV of Bellingham/Whatcom. Transparency and New Regulations Bolster Carbon Credit Markets … Continue reading
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June 2024
Biden Administration to End Coal Leasing in Powder River Basin
The Bureau of Land Management released a final environmental impact statement for two Powder River Basin resource management plans, finding that there would be significant impacts to our climate, human health, and the environment from continuing to lease the region’s … Continue reading
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January 2024
Lummi Nation Opposes Sale of Cherry Point Site to British Petroleum
The Lummi Nation opposes an attempted purchase of the site, known by Lummi people since time immemorial as Xwe’chi’eXen. BP’s interest in purchasing the site came as a surprise when the oil company presented it to Lummi for the first … Continue reading
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February 2022
New Bill Would Hold Big Oil Accountable
by Laura Feinstein HB 1691 protects taxpayers from the cleanup costs that should be the responsibility of the oil industry. Takeaways • “Self-insurance” has proved an insufficient financial protection for communities against oil spills, explosions, and leaks. • Washington communities too often … Continue reading
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February 2022
Refinery Communities Deserve a Transition Plan
by Zane Gustafson The long-term stability of Washington’s five oil refineries is in doubt. But that doesn’t mean the workers and local communities who support this industry have to share its fate. If local leaders start planning now, communities like … Continue reading
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January 2022
Danger: Marine Vessels That Serve Refineries
Every transportation method carries the risk of environmentally catastrophic oil spills. by Eric de Place and Zane Gustafson Northwest refineries receive crude oil — the raw material they use to manufacture consumer fuels — via three modes of transportation: pipeline, … Continue reading
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April 2021
What the Frack?
by Hailee Wickersham 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 … Continue reading
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January 2020
Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force Celebrates 30 Years
by Jacob Pederson 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 … 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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