7/11 Seattle fault, Lummi mitigation bank, Embridge spill, Orton Junction, Sliammon treaty, Shell drill, Bob Marley

French grunt with Gnathia marleyi. (Elizabeth Brill)

The last time the Seattle fault ripped, it jolted shorelines and unleashed a tsunami. Now a new study suggests that quake might have rocked an even bigger area than anyone thought. Sandi Doughton reports. Ancient quake and tsunami in Puget Sound shake researchers  

The Lummi Nation is enhancing nearly 2,000 acres of habitat in the Nooksack and Lummi river deltas as part of the first federally backed tribal wetland and habitat mitigation bank. Eventually, credits in the bank will be sold or transferred to developers who are required to mitigate for unavoidable adverse effects their projects might have on wetlands and associated buffer areas. These projects are expected to include homes built on tribal members’ land assignments and Lummi Nation projects as well as development off-reservation.  Lummi Nation creating first federally backed tribal mitigation bank

Opponents of Enbridge’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline are pointing to a scathing report into a spill in the United States to bolster their argument that the company’s proposal to transport oil over remote areas of British Columbia is too risky. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board issued a report Tuesday into a July 2010 spill that saw more than three million litres of crude oil spill into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River and nearby wetlands. The board concluded Enbridge failed to fix a defect discovered five years earlier and then responded poorly when the spill occurred.  U.S. oil spill report adds fuel to opposition to Enbridge pipeline in B.C.  

In a ruling that disappointed government officials and developers but thrilled some local farmland preservation activists, the state Growth Management Hearings Board has sided with opponents of a controversial project in the Sumner area. The board’s decision, made public Tuesday, means the future of the Orton Junction mixed-use development anchored by a YMCA is in limbo.  Ruling freezes Orton Junction  

Friends of the Hidden River are holding the Ground to Sound STEM Camp Challenge 2012 this week at the Brightwater Environmental Education Center in Woodinville. The science-based day camp program will reconnect students to the natural and reclaimed environment through a series of original motivating challenges designed to promote awareness and action to improve the health of Puget Sound.  Ground to Sound STEM Camp Challenge on tap this week

Members of a B.C. First Nation have approved a treaty with the federal and provincial governments. Residents of the Sliammon First Nation voted 318-235 in favour following a court ruling that guaranteed the polling station would be accessible. After the vote, Chief Clint Williams told about 60 people at the Salish Centre that it was not a victory but “just another step toward nationhood.” Sliammon First Nation approves treaty  

Environmental groups are suing the federal government, arguing that Shell Oil does not have an adequate plan to deal with a spill. The coalition says the goal is not to delay drilling this summer. The brief was filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage this morning, practically as the doors opened for business. It’s just the latest suit in a string of them filed over Arctic drilling and it takes aim at the Department of Interior, specifically, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, or BSEE.  Environmental Groups Say Shell’s Spill Response Plan is Inadequate  

President Barack Obama has one. Comedian Stephen Colbert has one. Elvis Presley has one. Even computer software magnate Bill Gates has one. And now, Bob Marley--the late popular Jamaican singer and guitarist--also has one. So what is it that each of these luminaries have? The answer: they each have a biological species that has been named after them.  New Parasitic Coral Reef Crustacean Named After Late Reggae Performer Bob Marley  

Now, your tug weather--
WEST ENTRANCE U.S. WATERS STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA- 900 PM PDT TUE JUL 10 2012
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W WIND 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 3 FT AT 14 SECONDS.
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W WIND 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 3 FT AT 14 SECONDS.

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