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If you like to watch: New NASA images show the Earth's electric light show
As part of setting new limits on water pollution based in part on how much fish people eat, state government is convening meetings of interested parties. But the state’s Indian tribes are refusing to participate. Discouraged by lack of progress, and asserting their rights as sovereign nations, tribes are trying to bypass the state’s process. “We want action, not further discussion,” Andy Whitener of the Squaxin Island Tribe wrote to Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant in a letter turning down an invitation to join a group providing advice. Jordan Schrader reports. As water-quality rules are hatched, tribes sit out
An organization that wants the West Coast’s largest coal export terminal built near Bellingham, Wash., has been hiring temp workers to queue up for hours in advance of public hearings. The tactic has ensured that export terminal backers get to testify while others are turned away from the microphones. But a federal agency insists it won’t be the same story next week in Seattle and Vancouver, Wash., where hearings continue on the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal. Patricia Graesser, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the public meetings, confirmed that the Corps had heard that people were being paid to stand in line. “It has been brought to our attention and our intent for the next two meetings is to ensure that the people who are standing in line are the people who are speaking,” she said. So, the message to both supporters and opponents of the coal export project is clear: no more place-holding at the upcoming meetings – paid or not. Ashley Ahearn reports. Paid Temps Do the Waiting So Coal Backers Don’t Have To See also: NW coal port hearing draws 800 at fairgrounds
Plans to build new and expand existing coal-port facilities in Metro Vancouver should not go ahead until the public gets a better chance to discuss the proposed developments, Mayor Gregor Robertson says. In a letter released Wednesday, Mr. Robertson told Robin Silvester, the president and CEO of Port Metro Vancouver, that there has not been adequate opportunity for people to comment on the coal projects. Mark Hume reports. Vancouver mayor urges more public input ahead of coal-port expansion
The Haisla First Nation has pulled out of an organization that has ardently fought the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and called for greener practices in the export of natural gas. The Haisla said they have withdrawn from Coastal First Nations, amid a debate among aboriginal groups about the environmental impact of West Coast industrial development that has now blown out into the open. The move comes as the Haisla shift their position on oil exports from their traditional territory, which some see as evidence that opposition to Gateway is beginning to wane. Nathan Venderklippe reports. Haisla First Nation withdraws from anti-Northern Gateway group
A large contingent of brown pelicans has dropped into Victoria harbour for what's expected to be a short stay. About two dozen pelicans, including at least two adults, are hanging out on rocky outcroppings - from Ogden Point and Fishermen's Wharf to the small island in the harbour where a wind sock assists the takeoff and landing of float planes. It's not the first time brown pelicans have been spotted in Greater Victoria, but there are more of them than Victoria birder Ann Nightingale has seen at one time. Flock of brown pelicans make rare appearance in Victoria's Inner Harbour
Now, your tug weather--
WEST ENTRANCE U.S. WATERS STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA- 300 AM PST THU DEC 6 2012
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING
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SW WIND 15 TO 25 KT...BECOMING W 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT...SUBSIDING TO 2 FT OR LESS. W SWELL 7 FT AT 11 SECONDS.
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SW WIND 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING W 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 2 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT. W SWELL 6 FT AT 11 SECONDS.
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That NASA image shows so clearly the 100th meridian - the line demarking where there is enough rain to grow crops reasonably. Everybody living in the US of A west of the 100th should read Wallace Stegner's book "Beyond the 100th Meridian"!
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