From Stark
Communitywise Bellingham and Whatcom Docs are seeking private grant funding for an independent study of potential health impacts from the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal shipping pier proposed for Cherry Point.
At Monday’s City Council meeting, council member Michael Lilliquist will ask his colleagues to consider drafting a letter of support for the grant application being prepared by the two groups.
Here’s a link to the City Council’s agenda packet item that explains what’s going on. The City Council is scheduled to discuss the matter in committee at 1:40 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in chambers at City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
AFY should show up here soon.
I’s was waiting for something more to pounce on than a couple of our local NIMBY’s groups asking for help!!
Something that I do agree they need even if it is some bogus slanted study promoting their bias, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Wait a minute, I am confused. The Greenies have been screaming bloody murder, spouting off facts and figures, and have been quoting sources predicting the demise of Whatcom County for many months.
Now they are wanting a study, to look into possible health impacts? I thought they knew everything this entire time.
You know how it is, if people ain’t buying what you are selling, it helps to hire a new PR firm, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Keep in mind, AFY, that the everyman doesn’t have lobbyists and/or the big bucks to push an agenda.
When common sense doesn’t convince people, you have to appeal to authority. Since local government cannot figure out that importing coal from Wyoming and selling it to China causes pollution and degrades quality of life – both here and abroad – they need someone with a lot of letters behind his/her name to tell them what they should be able to figure out but lack the wit to comprehend.
What about this for an idea, say you only wanted the truth, instead of just talking to yourself why not team up(or offer to with only one condition consensus on all decisions including who does the study) with a group (unions, etc who want the new port) where the results should be not questioned for bias.
There is only one problem with this scenario, you might not like what you get, since the truth has no agenda, don’t ya know!
Off to the links!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Well AFY,
Like that CHEAP, clean CNG Station in Bellingham?
http://www.altfuelprices.com/stations/CNG/Washington/Everett/
“It’s the freight that pays the bills.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444273704577635410254717408.html?KEYWORDS=railroad
The EIS should include the health impact assessment. IMO it’s premature to fund an independent study. If the DEIS doesn’t properly scope it, or respond adequately to comments, then we need to get an independent study. Likewise proper economic impact assessment, rail traffic study, vessel traffic study, herring study, etc. Make them do proper studies, and sue them when they don’t. Why should we pay for what the regs require? Particularly given that the project proponent promised us the most comprehensive EIS ever known to man?
TW what about woman too?
Also I agree acting premature is more connected to politics than anything else, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Come on AFY and Globus – what is so wrong with the City writing a simple letter of support for the request? Why are you so afraid of the findings of a Health Impact Assessment?
It’s a free country and everyone should be able to study the heck out of anything and everything but if there is a particular slant of those promoting something; being that it is a free country those with a different slant should be able to provide their slant!
If you get enough slants than we all start to spin, that’s what makes the world go round, it an alternate form of energy without carbon, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
The cynic in me thinks that the choice of the author of the study will determine the results.
I am not optimistic that the study will be unbiased.
Don’t be a cynic Dave, it’s Organic to study the preconceived notions, and the biased results of these same people.
Dave, you mean the unbiased thief, from a school teacher, legislator, and now a local mayor?
How’s the mayors criminal action team doing today, stealing from the future kindergarden classes, where no study has ever been needed, right here in the 4th Corner, where the Dunce Cap is Supreme!
http://www.leg.wa.gov/History/Territorial/Pages/territory.aspx
SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That when the lands in said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the Government of the United States preparatory to bringing the same into market or otherwise disposing thereof, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to common schools in said Territory. And in all cases where said sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either or any of them, shall be occupied by actual settlers prior to survey thereof, the County Commissioners of the counties in which said sections so occupied as aforesaid are situated, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate other lands to an equal amount in sections, or fractional sections, as the case may be, within their respective counties, in lieu of said sections so occupied as aforesaid.
SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the Territory of Oregon and the Territory of Washington shall have concurrent jurisdiction over all offenses committed on the Columbia River, where said river forms a common boundary between said Territories.
1 Train and HOUR!
Mr. Peabody’s Coal Train, bringing power to the Chevy Volt!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444508504577591212039656948.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTSecondBucket
Liberty Bell, while WSJ’s reporting is acceptable, their editorials have a long history of just making stuff up. They even ran an editorial claiming that Xerox’s invention of the ethernet cable was the “real” invention of the internet, which anyone who knows would say pants-on-fire.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on bellingham. Regards