Help fund a scientific study looking for links between diesel locomotives, coal trains and unhealthy air.
Help fund a scientific study looking for links between diesel locomotives, coal trains and unhealthy air.
Courtesy of Cliff Mass' weather blog, here is a University of Washington professor of Atmospherics Science, Don Jaffe, who wants to do a study of impacts from trains on our air. However, because of politics, no public funding is coming forth. So Don has turned to crowd funding. Check it out at the Microryza site for Don Jaffee and consider contributing. Even $10 will help toward the goal of $18,000. They have $3,000 as of this writing.
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John started Northwest Citizen in 1995 to inform fellow citizens of serious local political issues that the Bellingham Herald was ignoring. With the help of donors from the beginning, he has [...]
Pacific Northwest organizers join a global campaign to abolish all nukes and push for a city council resolution to start
4 comments, most recent 2 days agoPort of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
5 comments, most recent 3 weeks agoWe needed a hook, and we think we found it.
13 comments, most recent 2 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 truth is out there; Jon Humphrey has researched the issues and concisely compiled the results.
5 comments, most recent 5 months agoWendy was an intrepid voice for the environment and the humane treatment of animals. May her memory be for a blessing.
3 comments, most recent 5 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 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 Port contends it is mandated to increase revenue and jobs for the Port. But just what does that mean?
18 comments, most recent 9 months agoToxic waste, scrap recycling, jarring noise, and dubious processes on the waterfront: How did this happen?
10 comments, most recent 8 months agoA review and update of Bellingham’s rental registration and inspection program is long overdue.
10 comments, most recent 11 months agoDavid Netboy contends “business as usual” is no longer acceptable, and here’s why.
15 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 agoDavid Netboy writes: So how, exactly, does ABC Scrap Metal “restore the health of the land and water” on our waterfront?
11 comments, most recent 1 year agoGarrett O’Brien guest writes. And just how do we get out of this housing mess?
21 comments, most recent 1 year agoBoard member acknowledges illegal contract
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe baton has been passed to the developer to perform on this private dormitory complex. We shall see…
Liz Marshall writes about her concerns of our local governments and their environmental actions
Or how supposed progressives in our state legislature work against clean energy and the environment
14 comments, most recent 1 year ago“Alarmist” article is unfair to needed new technology
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoTwenty-two years, hundreds of volunteers, thousands of hours, their own lawyer, and the herons won!
8 comments, most recent 2 years agoAgent Orange is the “gift” that keeps giving.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoCityView is an oversized, misplaced, unnecessary, and virtually unadaptable apartment complex.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoIrrigation water usage in Whatcom County is estimated, and Eric puts forward reasons why we need meters to accurately measure usage.
Vote No On The Bellingham Public School 2022 Facilities Bond to Protect the Environment
15 comments, most recent 2 years agoBellingham Public Schools Learns Evasive Maneuvers from City Hall
12 comments, most recent 2 years agoReplacing all 71 buses would cost $6,035,000. Maybe later…
17 comments, most recent 2 years agoAfter twenty years of fits and starts, there is a time-sensitive opportunity for the city of Bellingham ...
11 comments, most recent 2 years agoAnd our long-term approach to climate change is…?
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoA summary of the Douglas Avenue right-of-way petition effort.
The Push is on!
Neighborhoods beware: City Hall is selling our public rights. Your neighborhood could be next.
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoGuest Writer David Donohue explains Sunnyland’s experience with City Hall’s promises, code enforcement, and follow-thru.
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoBut ever so s_l_o_w_l_y
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoPreserve public property rights & save the trail
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe city granted building permits while the Planning Department knew this was a state historical Indian village site.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoWhat does a little stream matter? Spoiler alert! It’s not a joke and, if it were, it would not be a nice one.
5 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 agoDespite willing property sellers, and Fleetwood’s campaign promises, and the unanimous Greenways Committee vote …. sigh.
6 comments, most recent 2 years agoAn essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoCityView, the project that will not die, will soon be subject to scrutiny during an extraordinary meeting of the Planning Commission.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoDaniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.
9 comments, most recent 2 years agoBroken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources
4 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 agoFor the first time in a decade a hearing on a public banking bill found more supporters than detractors.
New Roberts Bank container-ship terminal proposed by the Port of Vancouver would generate additional vessel traffic that will impact endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.
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 agoOlivia Hobson gives us a reprise of the last year under COVID-19 from the point of view of a WWU student.
1 comment, 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 agoDaniel Kirkpatrick guest writes how he, with encouragement in 1994 from the city of Bellingham, organized dozens of Happy Valley residents to build a trail on a city right of way.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoRepublicans who are silent during this disaster of a transition should be held to account in the next elections: county, state, and national. Here’s one example of their hypocrisy.
2 comments, most recent 3 years ago4th Update posted. We will provide short updates to the article “Cougar Trapping … Maybe,” to keep you informed of the cougar’s status.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoAn effort to trap a cougar that has been hanging around the southside too long is in place.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoStudents returning for the fall semester at WWU present the greatest threat to local residents during this pandemic.
An undemocratic process awaits a workgroup on broadband.
Enoch J. Ledet guest writes, advocating for a better method of cleaning Lake Whatcom of the phosphorus. The phosphorus that our drinking water must not contain.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoNo kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoSo far, so good for San Juan County. The July 4th holiday visitors have not led to either a “Yellow” or “Red” alert for covid-19 cases among its residents
Bringing thousands of students back to campus in the fall is a recipe for a disastrous spread of COVID-19. Restart in the fall of 2021.
23 comments, most recent 3 years agoWith this year’s crop about to fly the coop, it’s time to contact Mayor Fleetwood to seal the deal and create a permanent, protected wildlife reserve — the first of its kind in Bellingham.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoAuthors find that their method produces estimates of unconfirmed cases consistent with an announcement by the CDC that there are ten times more cases than reported.
Are politics driving new COVID-19 infections as Whatcom and Skagit counties reopen from the shutdown?
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoSummer visitors are likely to bring COVID-19 to previously unaffected or lightly affected seasonal communities requiring a model for risk evaluation and adaptive responses.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoHaving certainty about one’s water rights would allow users to negotiate with greater confidence than they now have.
Opponents of this project await a public meeting before the city’s Planning Commission, possibly in June.
Western Washington University seems to hate trees as they remove 48 more beautiful fir trees this week from the campus.
9 comments, most recent 3 years agoTo remember the victims of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Dr. Swanson leads us through some of the issues involved in pandemic modeling, especially with insufficient data.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoThis is a personal and professional look at the topic of delayed action on the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
16 comments, most recent 3 years agoDavid 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.
It is time to get serious about social distancing and public safety in the face of the COVID-19 virus. Half measures will not work.
13 comments, most recent 4 years agoJamie K writes a brief article for us on the herons. Amongst all our human travails, we need to still protect our natural environment.
1 comment, most recent 4 years agoThe best kept secret in the west?
5 comments, most recent 4 years agoA superb update of where we are as a community on protecting Bellingham’s only Great Blue Heron colony.
Why 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 agoJamie Donaldson urges us to contact the Bellingham City Council again as it appears there is foot dragging on acquiring the buffer woods by the heron colony nests.
1 comment, most recent 4 years agoThe herons that we enjoy watching all over Bellingham actually all live in one colony of nests in Fairhaven. This is an overview of efforts to protect their colony.
In meeting with Jamie K, Mayor Kelli commits to the city purchasing the land for the heron reserve.
3 comments, most recent 4 years agoCity planning - and the developer - abandoned their defense of the illegal permit to build in the critical area by the heron colony.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe developer and city have surrendered in their effort to allow building new homes in the Critical Area that protects the Great Blue Heron colony on Bellingham’s waterfront.
2 comments, most recent 4 years agoThe ban against the sale and possession of consumer fireworks in Bellingham is more than is apparent.
It is too early to determine the effects of a new code on accessory dwelling units aimed at improving housing affordability. Experience elsewhere says they will not.
2 comments, most recent 4 years agoFragrances cover up odors that should be eliminated by cleaning, not chemicals.
Updated May 21. How each of us can help protect the Great Blue Herons nesting trees from city proposed approval of development in the buffer trees.
4 comments, most recent 4 years agoJamie K clarifies several issues that Gabe Rogel posted about the protective woods buffer to the heron colony.
Bellingham’s Only Great Blue Heron colony Faces Human Threats - Again. Who Wants to Help?
6 comments, most recent 4 years agoCanada continues to push forward on its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion despit overwhelming opposition and damning evidence — as well as serious economic headwinds — against it.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe need immediate action to save the canaries in our coal mine, the Southern Resident Orca and Salmon. Take down obsolete salmon-blocking dams before it’s too late.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoBellingham Public Schools staff Greg Baker and Ron Cowan display contempt for public involvement, the environment, and public disclosure with the bus barn issue on Whatcom Creek.
15 comments, most recent 5 years agoJason Hickel asks “Can we have perpetual growth AND a healthy ecology?”
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoUpdated Oct 23… Initiative 1631 creates a carbon tax, which is good, but gives the money to private political organizations and even exempts the biggest polluters from the tax.
18 comments, most recent 5 years agoSince 1917, Washington’s water laws have become increasingly complicated and counterproductive. Eric explains the major problems and suggests an alternative for a sustainable future.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoTwo developable lots with over 50% of their property in Padden Creek and its wetland should be purchased by Greenways as they fit all the criteria.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoUpdate: comment extended to May15 for requesting public shorelines hearing, EIS, and public hearing - else city poised to approve townhouses by Derek Stebner be build virtually in Padden Creek.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe take an early look at who is running for office this year in Whatcom County. Voters will elect a state senator, state representatives, a county councillor and prosecutor.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoToward a more comprehensive approach to human health and the environment
6 comments, most recent 6 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 agoA good explanation of the amount of water in the Nooksack River on a seasonal basis - and the demands that people and salmon make on that flow. Eric is the expert.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoEric’s perspective on the state wide new rural water fix legislation, ESSB 6091. Governor Inslee signed it last Friday, and it went into effect immediately.
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed bipartisan legislation today that resolves the rural water permits for homeowner uses.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoIrrigation, the use of huge field sprinklers, is the big user of unpermitted water in our county. Not family households. Eric presents a solution.
10 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 agoCNN interviews Darell Hillaire of the Lummi Nation about the Salmon Emergency, Rosalinda Guillen about the Detention Center hunger strike and Satpal Sidhu about the Arch of Healing
The Trump regime has turned its back on science and reason, endangering democracy in America.
The author of “The Mushroom Hunters” takes on the Pacific Northwest’s signature environmental issue.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoBelingham School District is installing Crumb Rubber artificial turf fields for high school football and soccer. Made with old car tires. They appear to cause cancer in kids.
5 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 agoThe President’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement flies directly in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. It calls into question his ability to lead this great nation.
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 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 ago84% of the respondents to the 2017 Bellingham Residential Survey are homeowners. What?
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe state supreme court ‘Hirst Decision’ has a lot of false information swirling in our county. Eric Hirst takes on seven myths and tries to clarify the issues.
5 comments, most recent 6 years agoOur rural Whatcom County residents are being denied the right to have water for new homes, and this in a county that has no idea how much water it has, but has a lot.
22 comments, most recent 7 years agoSearch warrant for facebook messages on the North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline has been withdrawn in face of ACLU court challenge
At least Doug Ericksen showed up, but he didn’t say anything to reassure a largely hostile audience at Saturday’s town hall meeting.
5 comments, most recent 7 years agoWhatcom County has plenty of water in winter, when people need it least. But in summer, when demand for water is at its peak, it is often in short supply.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoMichael Riordan guest writes about state senators Doug Ericksen and Don Benton being appointed by President Trump to bring his changes to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency.
5 comments, most recent 7 years agoStoney 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 agoEric Hirst writes an overview of seasonal water use in Whatcom County - and supports his views with a well researched report that he also wrote.
7 comments, most recent 7 years agoA brief primer on the options for handling sewage sludge, and how B’ham has chosen the worst, from a planetary perspective.
6 comments, most recent 7 years agoA counter to Hirst’s position. An insightful overview of the current situation with Whatcom County’s exempt water wells and the unfair building moratorium the council has put on rural property owners.
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoA brief essay, an homage, to people of the country. Country People.
2 comments, most recent 7 years agoA rainy autumn is worsening the Swift Creek landslide, and a long-term fix seems nowhere in sight.
While the push is for ever greater economic acceleration, deceleration is the counter-intuitive solution for the future.
Eric Hirst responds to Elisabeth Britt’s article about the legal and physical issues of our rural Whatcom County water wells for homes, farms and businesses.
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe state DOE has prepared an interactive map that allows rural property owners to check on water resources for their property.
3 comments, most recent 7 years agoA counter to the Eric Hirst inspired decision of the county council to clamp a total moratorium on drilling new water wells in Whatcom County - and thus a home building ban.
1 comment, 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.
The city has given an extremely short notice for comments on a substantial logging operation for 110 acres of Samish Hill. The city has known about this project since May.
4 comments, most recent 7 years agoToday the Washington Supreme Court ruled Whatcom County Comp plan does not protect water resources, providing a victory for local environmentalist litigants Hirst, Brakke, Harris & Stalheim.
6 comments, most recent 7 years agoUpdated 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 agoThe Greenways Advisory Committee meets this evening and may reverse their May decision to purchase the heron colony buffer woods.
10 comments, most recent 7 years agoBellingham’s only heron colony needs forested buffer - and the land owner is willing to sell. Greenways has voted to buy it, but our city council must act.
5 comments, most recent 7 years agoThe planned concrete walkway from Boulevard Park to the Cornwall landfill, using millions in Greenway funds, has been abandoned by Bellingham. We again thank the Lummi.
11 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 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 7 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 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.
Chiara D’Angelo comes across as emotionally intelligent and uncompromising in her high-stakes Coast Guard hearing.
1 comment, most recent 8 years agoThe Coast Guard has levied $30,000 in fines on two Bellingham climate activists. They will fight to have the fines dropped.
16 comments, most recent 8 years agoThey are less famous than the eagles on the Skagit but closer to Bellingham, fewer people and still lots of eagles. A great January afternoon outing.
1 comment, most recent 8 years agoShell 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 agoTani Sutley writes on the continuing issue of houses in residential zones that are used essentially as hotels and disrupt quiet neighborhoods.
Statement by Whatcom Family Farmers on “Eric Hirst and his water ideas” and Hirst’s Reply
1 comment, 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 agoPadden Creek daylighting project strays far from city promises to homeowner that his property would remain intact.
4 comments, most recent 8 years agoEric Hirst provides us all with a well researched report on Whatcom County water issues - rights, Lake Whatcom, ground water and more.
10 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 agoLois Garlick has died. For many decades, she and George served as environmental stewards and leaders in preserving wildlife and nature.
2 comments, most recent 8 years agoYoung Chiara spent 3 nights hanging from the anchor chain of Shell Oil’s Arctic Challenger as a protest to arctic oil drilling.
Updated | Ski to Sea race does not need to race through sensitive Chuckanut Community Forest Park for special mountain bike leg. City did not renege.
10 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 agoAdd your thoughts and remembrances. Robyn du Pre` was a stalwart and true environmental advocate for Bellingham and Whatcom County. She died this week.
9 comments, most recent 9 years agoTani Sutley guest writes about the vacation rentals situation and presents goals for the county council to consider for improving our rural neighborhoods.
1 comment, most recent 9 years agoDuuhhh! Try doing without it. Marian Beddill provides an overview of our rural Whatcom County water situation and the efforts to find fair solutions.
3 comments, most recent 9 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 agoTani Sutley writes of how unregulated vacation rentals are invading the Lake Whatcom watershed. She urges action before the Planning Commission meeting on 11 December.
4 comments, most recent 9 years agoUpdate Oct 22: John Lesow has posted a comment with considerable more information on this issue.
1 comment, most recent 9 years agoSandy 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 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 agoBellingham’s annual water quality report indicates that city hall’s propoganda machine is going strong
1 comment, most recent 9 years agoPart 1: Introduction to the Bellingham Basin’s Potential for Fracking, Earthquakes, and Earthquakes Due to Fracking
3 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 agoThe public needs to support city council and request that a waterfront habitat assessment include terrestrial species and habitat connectivity.
or How Not to Plan for Future Generations’ Water Needs
12 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 the county’s plan to buy the county morgue
3 comments, most recent 10 years agoFukushima radiation has been found 20 miles from Whatcom County farmland along the Fraser River in British Columbia.
1 comment, most recent 10 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 county will be required to consider water quality and water quantity when planning rural growth.
3 comments, most recent 10 years agoThe city staff considers the overwater walkway a done deal before official approval or resolution of treaty right conflicts
4 comments, most recent 10 years agoRiley uncovers how the Coal Industry is funding conservative candidates in Whatcom County
11 comments, most recent 10 years agoBellingham City Council ready to approve $500,000 of trails money for resurfacing plastic grass on Civic Field.
15 comments, most recent 10 years agoRiley Sweeney examines Sen. Ericksen’s legislative methods
Jeffrey Margolis urges us to request the Nooksack South Fork Valley be included in the Coal Port environmental study.
3 comments, most recent 10 years agoMarian Beddill provides a general guide for the public, with a look at the history of water rights in Washington state.
4 comments, most recent 10 years ago