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Tip Johnson is a longtime citizen interest advocate with a record of public achievement projects for good government and the environment. A lifelong student of government, Tip served two terms [...]
With such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.
No public fiber means we can’t compete with big telecom. EVER.
4 comments, most recent 3 weeks agoBiden administration is asking the public to report on bogus advertising claims of Medicare Advantage providers.
7 comments, most recent 4 months agoTuesday, Dec, 5, will be the first time ABC Recycling has agreed to answer the public. Don’t miss this meeting. Here are the issues.
6 comments, most recent 4 months agoThe effect of WWU students on Whatcom County’s rental housing market
5 comments, most recent 4 months agoAn insider’s view of rental inspections in Bellingham as experienced by a long-time renter.
5 comments, most recent 5 months agoGetting a letter that declares, “An exciting new prescription drug benefit for you!” should activate your BS detector.
7 comments, most recent 4 months agoOr at least, take a moment to learn about the privatization of Medicare, commonly called Medicare [Dis]Advantage.
1 comment, most recent 6 months agoAn in-depth look at local housing: insightful, researched, and provocative.
5 comments, most recent 6 months agoThe passage of time alone will not save Bellingham from this dangerous situation. Only strong and persistent action on the part of its citizens will be effective against this menace.
[Our Guest Writer, Scott Jones, is a Bellingham resident along with his family. He is President of ...
7 comments, most recent 6 months ago$3.5 million Point Roberts Broadband project: is it worth it?
1 comment, most recent 6 months agoThis legislation calls for a $5 trillion National Infrastructure Bank that will finance the nation’s infrastructure needs without involving the budget or adding to the national debt.
4 comments, most recent 7 months agoThe developer, who bought the property to build the private student dormitory, CityView, now has a very, very large white elephant on his hands.
3 comments, most recent 9 months agoThe Port contends it is mandated to increase revenue and jobs for the Port. But just what does that mean?
18 comments, most recent 10 months agoThe state of Washington has much to gain by the passage of a bill that will provide for $5 trillion to finance infrastructure nationwide.
3 comments, most recent 11 months agoThis is not a new phenomenon in our city.
[The following is reprinted from The Retiree Advocate, monthly newsletter of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA). &...
1 comment, most recent 11 months agoA review and update of Bellingham’s rental registration and inspection program is long overdue.
10 comments, most recent 11 months agoLong-time Port watcher, Doug Karlberg, suggests a different point of view on the waterfront scrap pile.
5 comments, most recent 10 months agoBan them all. Forever. Every single, solitary firearm in the U.S.
18 comments, most recent 11 months agoGarrett O’Brien guest writes. And just how do we get out of this housing mess?
21 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe Senate Committee on Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade failed to vote the bill out of committee, but it can be revived in the second year of the biennium.
The program appears to be dying of self-inflicted wounds that were long predicted. Supporters stiffened their spines instead, ignoring the obvious blood loss.
11 comments, most recent 11 months agoMillions of Medicare recipients have already been schnookered into Medicare Advantage. Don’t be a victim. Fight back.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoIf we do not speak out NOW on the privatization of Medicare, the system will effectively be eaten alive from within.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoWith the loss of Michael Gan, TAGNW has become a puppet organization of big telecom that is aggressively working against the public interest.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoExcellent and succinct overview of Traditional Medicare, now under a very real threat. People are now waking up!
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoPublic funds belong to all the residents of Washington state. Why give that money to private banks so they can make a fortune for themselves?
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoPublic Works successfully gave the impression of progress, without actually having to bother
A running Record of the Zero Transparency Policies of the PUD, Port, County and City Councils From 1/12/2022 Onward
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoCDN did a report on a report. Where was the investigative journalism?
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoPrivatization of Medicare has moved into the state of Washington. Beware of the Dirty Dozen.
11 comments, most recent 1 year agoNow is your opportunity to tell this administration that the steal from Medicare has to stop. Medicare Advantage only “advantages” the corporations that run it.
15 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe past actions of a presidential appointee are a good indicator of the direction in which the president wants to go.
9 comments, most recent 1 year agoTower to be built in residential neighborhood, near two elementary schools
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoTaimi Gorman guest writes a Grim Fairhaven Fairy Tale
15 comments, most recent 1 year agoFeds announce discounted/free high-speed internet, but the devil is in the details.
Biden missed a chance to truthfully address his administration’s actions to privatize Medicare.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoYet another un-affordable rental complex for Bellingham as we slide down the razor blade of housing affordability.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoIt seems that getting our congressional reps to directly oppose privatization efforts is too difficult a commitment.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoIf this story were a movie, nobody would go because it is so unbelievable.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoIf you put lipstick on a pig or polish a turd, you still have a pig and a turd.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe CDN internet article doesn’t question “high-speed” or “affordable” or “coming soon” in Whatcom County.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoIn the early hours of February 17th, Public Banking Bill SB 5188, weakened by toxic amendments, was found lifeless. Heroic attempts to keep it alive since early January this year had been unsuccessful.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoCityView is an oversized, misplaced, unnecessary, and virtually unadaptable apartment complex.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoIncome inequality is a national issue driving many social and health problems. This article explores income inequality in Whatcom County.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoWhatever happened to that multi-million dollar grant the Port got for rural broadband?
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoVirtual monopolies engender poor service and lack of customer focus.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoWe have an opportunity to assure affordable housing in Bellingham; let’s not squander it!
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoUnder Eric Johnston, they’ve been stalling, dragging it out, and protecting big telecom.
Guest Writer David Donohue explains Sunnyland’s experience with City Hall’s promises, code enforcement, and follow-thru.
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoPlaying along with YouTube is a losing game for Bellingham. It is time to break the ties that bind … and blind.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoBetween the professional service of Comcast, and the “professionals” at COB, start training Carrier pigeons.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoYet another eyesore bunker-like building for bunking students at market rental rates.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoEffective, efficient and low cost, high speed broadband service continues to elude Bellingham and Whatcom County
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoBellingham continues to have its mail dropoff options changed willy-nilly.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoTime to put the kibosh on the CityView private dormitory project for the good of the neighborhood and the good of the city.
Mail collection boxes seem to be a thing of the past. Why have one postal vehicle collect from the boxes when hundreds of people can drive to the post office to mail a letter?
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoA new and local county wide technology group of Internet and broadband experts has been formed. Jon explains why and lists the members.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoCity staff report outlines “issues” with megalithic CityView complex. You have a chance to comment.
1 comment, most recent 2 years ago“Differential Privacy:” A statistical adjustment system that may render 2020 census population data unusable.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoUgly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.
10 comments, most recent 2 years agoSB 5188 to establish a Washington state Financial Cooperative is in an uncertain state in the legislature
Broken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoAfter clearing the Senate, Washington’s bill to create a public banking cooperative advances to the Democratically controlled House.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoAtul Deshmane guest writes and provides us with a resume of the internet infrastructure issues now being discussed in Bellingham
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoPart of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoWith a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoFor the first time in a decade a hearing on a public banking bill found more supporters than detractors.
Regulatory standards in SB-5511 offer nothing but give the appearance of doing something.
A public bank in Washington is sorely needed for infrastructure projects and more especially with COVID-19 and the resultant severe economic downturn.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoPublic Works Director, Eric Johnston and Council Member Michael Lilliquist hand-picked their “perfect members” to determine our internet future.
14 comments, most recent 3 years agoGarrett O’Brien guest writes how a shift in housing policies is needed to avoid an escalation of our housing crisis.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoFrozen resistance in some quarters against public banking may find a thaw in 2021.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoSomething is amiss regarding the BNSF oil-train wreck in Custer on Dec 22, 2020. Why, after a week, are there no answers and a cause?
11 comments, most recent 3 years agoComcast inflicts $3/mo rate hike, data caps, and overage fees
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoCurrent flux in the composition of the Planning Commission means the group is overloaded with development-oriented members.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoHow Bellingham Schools fail the poor.
Chuck Robinson provides his knowledgeable perspective on Christmas and Holiday shopping. We asked Chuck, who is now retired, to write this for all of us.
Five years ago CenturyLink wanted their TV franchise to be in Bellingham in a big way. They failed and now want to pull out.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoIs it 219 days? Five years? It’s time to move forward on the Broadband Advisory Group. Now!
Six applicants for Bellingham’s Broadband Advisory Group are examined by Jon for their conflicts of interest with their business ties to the broadband industry.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoJon explains why the Starlink satellite Internet service will not be so great and why fiber is still best for reliability, speed, cost, safety and the environment. Really.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham is foot-dragging and Whatcom County gives nearly $1 million to “Big Telecom.”
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoChanging or eliminating the definition of “family” in our zoning codes is fraught with difficulties and likely inevitable unintended(?)consequences.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoSchools especially are losing out because of local government neglect of broadband access. And it isn’t getting better.
Mike Pellicciotti is the one to replace the current, Trump-loving incumbent Washington State Treasurer.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoA Public Works document on Bellingham’s fiber optic network leaves much to be desired.
Real progress on broadband and fiber optics is not what is being sold to the public by the city.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoAn undemocratic process awaits a workgroup on broadband.
In a specific and obviously sternly written request for information, the city outlined the deficiencies in the CityView project proposal.
WA State Department of Commerce Internet Access Test is a Scam to Protect Big Telecom
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoA writer has a conversation with an article about police unions.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoJohn and Janet Crews guest write how the Public Market building is in the middle of small downtown businesses. The mayor, after a secret process, now rushes this issue to the council on Tuesday.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoA developer’s meeting with Samish neighbors sheds more light on the Samish View Development.
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoOpponents of this project await a public meeting before the city’s Planning Commission, possibly in June.
Our guest writer takes us through an explanation of inflation and deflation in the time of COVID-19
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoOur guest writer makes a case for the minting of one or more trillion dollar coins as a funding mechanism in the time of COVID-19 and a collapsing economy.
18 comments, most recent 3 years agoHotspots like the one in the Benton county in Washington may prove to have a higher level, chronic COVID-19 infection rate as the governor attempts to re-open the economy.
David Swanson continues to keep us informed of the progress of the COVID-19 spread in Whatcom County.
4 comments, most recent 4 years agoWith his modelling skills David Swanson continues to keep us apprised of the COVID-19 spread in Whatcom County and its likely trajectory.
5 comments, most recent 4 years agoAn analysis of the COVID-19 situation in Hanford County on the eastern side of the state. We are all in the same boat, the Pacific Northwest.
Various topics discussed at the neighborhood meeting but renters’ complaints dominated the agenda.
4 comments, most recent 4 years agoState Senator Hasegawa continues to push for legislation creating a public bank in Washington.
7 comments, most recent 4 years agoInstalling that RING video doorbell may have a cost…your privacy.
3 comments, most recent 4 years agoBellingham to revise and update its codes to control motorized bikes, scooters and skateboards. Motorized scooter rentals are also on the docket…but beware.
3 comments, most recent 4 years agoWhy the Port selected Harcourt to be “master developer” should be an inquiry submitted through bullhorns and accompanied by clacking pitchforks.
18 comments, most recent 4 years agoCalifornia becomes the second state to enact public banking legislation. And the Evergreen State? Quo vadis?
Sen Hasegawa returns to Bellingham to address the topic of public banking before the Whatcom County Council on Tuesday, 24 September
The ban against the sale and possession of consumer fireworks in Bellingham is more than is apparent.
Iris Maute-Gibson submitted her letter of resignation to the mayor on June 1st.
Senator Bob Hasegawa brought information to the citizens of Whatcom County about the benefits of public banks and his bill to establish one in Olympia.
8 comments, most recent 4 years agoJason Hickel asks “Can we have perpetual growth AND a healthy ecology?”
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoMessaging by anecdotes, not facts, is becoming the watchword of creating ordinances in Bellingham
8 comments, most recent 5 years agoMyopic leadership in the NFL is the problem.
After 20 some years of owning and managing Northwest Citizen, I am retiring - and hopeful that some person or group will take ownership and go forward.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoBeware of the companies that will place that cute ADU in your backyard and turn you into a debtor overnight.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoGas hit $1.55 a litre in Vancouver this week. The safe prediction is that pump prices will never go down.
11 comments, most recent 5 years agoUpdate on efforts surrounding a publicly owned fiber optic network in Bellingham including a recently released fiber map from the COB including good news from the Port and State.
11 comments, most recent 6 years agoPeter Gigante of Fairhaven says Donald Trump will take action on the USA’s trade imbalance with China. This action should come soon.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoDistrict-only voting for Whatcom Council is having its intended effect, as one conservative takes a seat.
Fossil-fuel loving climate-change deniers—including Doug Ericksen—who have taken over the federal government are seriously endangering our nation and planet.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoOutlining our Bellingham need for a complete broadband Internet solution based on a public owned fiber-optic cabling system.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoRental inspections in Bellingham performed by private inspection services should be audited immediately.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoSulfurous gases released from crude-oil tankers anchored south of Bellingham appear to be a fairly common summer occurrence.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoStartling change in British Columbia government today, Monday, may lead to the cancelling pipeline and no increase in oil tankers in the San Juan Islands
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoTrump has been criticized for softening his stance on China. But Peter Gigante, who became Washington’s largest Trump donor largely because he supported the candidate’s trade policies, says “wait and see.”
11 comments, most recent 5 years agoRural Whatcom County farmers use a lot of water for irrigating their fields. How much is used? Eric Hirst tells us what is known and not known.
10 comments, most recent 6 years agoRight now - this week - a freight train is on its way from London to China - reopening the ancient land trade trail between China and Europe.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoWe need to pay more attention to the wage side of housing affordability.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoA continuation of the conversation about neighborhood character and infill proposals.
19 comments, most recent 6 years agoRental inspections have been taking place in Happy Valley. Results similar to York and Sehome Neighborhoods
Search warrant for facebook messages on the North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline has been withdrawn in face of ACLU court challenge
The newest members of the commission do not come from the development industry.
5 comments, most recent 7 years agoPublic banks are the answer to low cost financing and divestment from the private banking casino.
4 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe state of rental registrations and inspections after six months.
Stoney Bird explains the Community Rights movement and notes a documentary movie about this showing in March in Anacortes and Bellingham
4 comments, most recent 7 years agoTrump supporter: America must fight back against China
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoRental inspections are providing a window into the condition of rentals and the view is outrageous.
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoHow much have we ceded our rights in the workplace? David Ellerman tells us…a lot!
9 comments, most recent 7 years agoWherein citizens snooze, they lose
1 comment, most recent 7 years agoHow a grinch - and maybe two of them - are callously causing the post office of over 100 years to close in Fairhaven, an historic community on the south edge of Bellingham.
Today the city council unanimously approved an amendment to the Planning Commission ordinance to avoid group bias by limiting (to three) appointments of those with ties to development.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoWhile the push is for ever greater economic acceleration, deceleration is the counter-intuitive solution for the future.
There is renewed interest in yet another large student dormitory project in the Puget Neighborhood.
Neoliberalism: A political theory of the late 1900s holding that personal liberty is maximized by limiting government interference in the operation of free markets.
5 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe Bellingham Planning Commission lacks broad representation from the community. A simple fix is to limit the number of members involved with the building and development industries.
4 comments, most recent 7 years agoInitiative 732 may be the most important issue on our ballot. The pro and anti campaigns were instructive - until the last minute anti ad blitz. Time to call out the anti folks.
Updated on Monday. An elaborate tripod was erected over the railroad tracks on the bridge over Chuckanut Bay and protesters sat in a sling. 11 hour train stoppage.
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoJay Taber, a strong environmentalist for decades, guest writes a harsh critique of the 350 org anti-fossil fuel demonstrations at the Anacortes oil refineries last weekend.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe March Point protestors this weekend will hopefully show serious concern and not disturb the heron colony near the refineries.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe Seattle office of the Army Corps of Engineers has formally denied a permit for building a coal terminal at Cherry Point in Whatcom County. Updated at 4pm.
4 comments, most recent 7 years agoAlso to all U.S. Representative candidates in the 1st and 2nd U.S. Congressional districts for the election in 2016
1 comment, most recent 7 years agoLiquid natural gas terminal is rumored to be in planning stages for Cherry Point as the Oregon proposed LNG plan is abandoned.
6 comments, most recent 8 years agoAt Clayton Beach, we have tracked increasing erosion under railroad tracks and written to the railroads and federal inspectors. To no avail.
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoAccelerating efforts across the U.S. to install a $15 minimum wage are playing into the hands of big business and codifying enormously insufficient wages for years to come.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoWork on EIS put on hold as coal companies wait for Army Corps of Engineers decision. Well, it was not in March. This is not an April 1 gag.
3 comments, most recent 8 years agoActivist contests $10,000 fine for climbing on a Shell oil vessel. Rob Lewis guest writes this report.
Updated 4:30pm. Helena, Montana newspaper says GPT may be denied this week by Army Corps of Engineers. US Rep Zinke panics and accuses Army of politics.
4 comments, most recent 8 years agoNot even a letter from a coal terminal spokesman can save them now.
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoThe third annual deArmond dinner celebrated the work of Sandy Robson and Neah Monteiro.
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoWhat almost happened on the coast of Maine could happen here at Cherry Point. Portland, Maine, stopped oil exports - and Whatcom County can also. If we act.
Shell Polar Pioneer floating oil drill rig left the Pacific Northwest for Norway today. Nice holiday gift for all of us.
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoWhatcom group plans meeting workshop to submit comments to Washington Dept of Ecology against Skagit/Bakken oil trains.
6 comments, most recent 8 years agoAfter 126 years in business, Fairhaven Pharmacy closes for the last time at 6 p.m. today. Historic Fairhaven Association to do Halloween photos.
1 comment, most recent 8 years agoWendy DeFreest, of Avenue Bread, will open a new “burger joint” called The Filling Station by late October in Fairhaven. It will not be a sandwich cafe.
Moves to set the minimum wage to $15, even if successful, are woefully insufficient. And why aren’t people speaking out about abusive work scheduling?
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoThe fight to keep Point Roberts from becoming a Radio Tower Farm is not over.
3 comments, most recent 8 years agoTani Sutley writes a second article on the increasing number of vacation rentals - and the County Council bill to let them expand dramatically.
4 comments, most recent 8 years agoOne part of the environmental study for the proposed Cherry Point mega coal terminal has been completed and released. It deals with ship collisions - they call it “vessel traffic.”
2 comments, most recent 9 years agoBellingham Public Works shows how tone deaf they can be to business concerns. They insisted on street work that takes away up to 80 parking spaces in Fairhaven during the biggest shopping week of the year.
Sandy Robson guest writes of the need for real prosperity at Cherry Point, not a destructive short term coal port that destroys the fishing grounds.
5 comments, most recent 9 years agoLandlords are so caught up opposing a licensing and inspection ordinance, they cannot see the upside for them in ridding the city of bad rentals.
19 comments, most recent 9 years agoGuest writer Sandy Robson breaks the story of officials from Washington treated to a coal-promoting junket to Wyoming.
2 comments, most recent 9 years agoIn the Weekly, Tim Johnson left out three words in quoting Craig Cole - and his story misleads readers. Guest article by Sandy Robson.
11 comments, most recent 9 years agoWyoming Senators and coal honchos were in Whatcom County June 10 - to hold a news conference with select reporters.
7 comments, most recent 9 years agoA Venn diagram where coal, the Endangered Species Act, Republicans, and Wyoming’s Board of Education collide.
2 comments, most recent 9 years agoA perspective by guest writer Ellen Murphy reflects on the Whatcom Watch and the threatened law suit by Craig Cole.
22 comments, most recent 9 years agoWyoming is ready to try and legally force us to limit our environmental scoping for the Cherry Point coal terminal
4 comments, most recent 9 years agoWhy Washington must step in and assume lead agency status in Skagit County for the Shell crude by rail proposal.
6 comments, most recent 9 years agoA closer look at Whatcom County’s industrial “stewards of the environment.”
4 comments, most recent 9 years agoWhy commenting on the EIS for Comp Plan revisions for Cherry Point means demanding an EIS in the first place.
5 comments, most recent 9 years agoRiley digs into an unusual hiring decision at the County Planning Dept
1 comment, most recent 10 years agoThe editor of the Whatcom Watch, Richard Jehn, has resigned effective today. Chalk up a victory for Craig Cole and Pacific International Terminals.
8 comments, most recent 10 years agoThe full text of Craig Cole’s threatening letter of libel against the Whatcom Watch. And the emptiness of the threat.
16 comments, most recent 10 years agoCraig Cole, the local contact for the proposed Cherry Point coal port has threatened the Whatcom Watch with a libel lawsuit.
6 comments, most recent 10 years agoThe old empty Reid Boiler Works industrial building in Fairhaven burned to the ground Saturday night.
Riley uncovers how the Coal Industry is funding conservative candidates in Whatcom County
11 comments, most recent 10 years agoJeffrey Margolis urges us to request the Nooksack South Fork Valley be included in the Coal Port environmental study.
3 comments, most recent 10 years agoHelp fund a scientific study looking for links between diesel locomotives, coal trains and unhealthy air.
New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has a masterful short article that explains why austerity is not working.
3 comments, most recent 10 years agoRiley details upcoming merger between PeaceHealth and a much more conservative entity
1 comment, most recent 11 years agoWherein artists have to eat, too!
Links to a few noteworthy GPT scoping comments .
1 comment, most recent 11 years agoRiley looks into Ericksen’s legislative efforts this session
1 comment, most recent 11 years agoA dramatic video of yet another mudslide near Everett - and what will be coming down on coal trains. Amtrak service to Bellingham is shut down.
4 comments, most recent 11 years ago
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David Camp
Jul 16, 2012They’re doing the same thing in Delta, BC, I presume for their trains bound for the Roberts Bank coal port. Here they disregarded environmental laws and damaged a salmon stream:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/07/09/Delta-Salmon-Stream-Rocked/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=160712