9/24 Vine maple, 'green scam,' BC LNG, entangled humpback, AK oil leasing, democracy watch

 Vine maple [Native Plants PNW]

Vine Maple Acer circinatum
Vine maple, although not really a vine, has very slender, often sprawling, branches. We have three native maple species in the Pacific Northwest:  Big-Leaf Maple and two more shrubby cousins, Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, and Douglas Maple, Acer glabrum. (Native Plants PNW)

Today's top story in Salish Current: Orca lost, orca born

'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change
In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues. (Associated Press) 

LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat 
The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal. Zoë Yunker reports. (The Tyee) 

B.C. spent $200 million to connect one LNG plant to the electrical grid
What happens when energy-intensive industries want to go electric at minimal cost? B.C. may be about to find out. Shannon Waters reports. (The Narwhal) 

Another humpback found entangled in fishing gear off B.C.
Efforts were underway Tuesday to free another entangled humpback whale from fishing gear, this time near the Ballenas Islands off Parksville in the Strait of Georgia. Jeff Bell reports. (Times Colonist) 

No public comment or hearings on environmental review of oil leasing in Alaska’s Cook Inlet
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is cutting out a public comment process, citing a Trump administration policy aimed at ‘streamlining’ development. (Alaska Beacon) 

Democracy Watch

• ICE recruitment ads in Seattle target law enforcement (Seattle Times) 
• FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump about autism, Tylenol and pregnancy (AP) 

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Here's your tug weather—
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  209 AM PDT Wed Sep 24 2025    
TODAY  W wind around 5 kt, rising to 5 to 10 kt late. Seas 3 to  5 ft. Wave Detail: W 5 ft at 10 seconds. TONIGHT  W wind 5 to 10 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Wave Detail: W 6 ft  at 11 seconds.

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