8/7 Catkin, BC emissions, Oly goats, BC old growth, Pacific garbage, Dakota Access pipe, Kitsap Lake, KNKX weather, Frognal bankruptcy

 

 

Catkin
A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster, with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated but sometimes insect-pollinated. They contain many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged closely along a central stem that is often drooping.

B.C.’s emissions reach highest levels since 2001
Greenhouse gas emissions in B.C. spiked in 2018, reaching the highest levels since 2001, with oil and gas extraction, off-road industrial transport and heavy-duty diesel vehicles among the culprits, according to data released by the provincial government on Thursday. The figures show 2018 gross emissions totalled 67.9 megatonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent , an increase of seven per cent since 2007and an increase of 2.2 Mt from 2017. The numbers push the province further away from its targets of a 40 per cent reduction from 2007 levels by 2030. B.C. is now 14 per cent further from its 2030 target than it was in 2007. Judith Lavoie reports. (The Narwhal)

Olympic goats take final flight to their new Cascade home
Not even a pandemic can stop scientists' multiyear quest to move invasive Olympic mountain goats by helicopter to their native Cascades. Hannah Weinberger reports. (Crosscut)

Starving for Old Growth Forests
On July 27, James Darling and Robert Fuller stopped eating. Equipped with signs and lawn chairs, they set up camp in front of the office of Sheila Malcolmson, NDP MLA for Nanaimo. In a letter to Premier John Horgan and all MLAs, the two men said they were launching a hunger strike until the government ended old growth logging in B.C. Natasha Simpson reports. (The Type)

Ship returns from Great Pacific Garbage Patch with 67 tons of plastic trash
In the fierce midday sun at Kewalo Basin Harbor Wednesday, elephantine mounds of algae-wrapped, tar-stained, red and yellow cordage, poison-green fishing nets and bleached consumer plastics in various stages of decay were being unloaded from the weatherbeaten hull of the tall-masted cargo ship KWAI, which had returned to Honolulu that morning with its hold bearing 67 tons of marine trash collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch during 35 days at sea. Mindy Pennybacker reports. (Star-Advertiser)

U.S. court allows Dakota Access oil pipeline to stay open, but permit status unclear
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) does not have to be shut and drained per a lower court order, but a legal battle continued over the permit that allowed the line to be finished. U.S. regulatory officials may still need to issue another environmental assessment for DAPL before deciding if the 570,000-barrel-per-day oil pipeline can keep operating, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said. (Reuters) See also: What's next for the Dakota Access Pipeline? Recent court rulings cast doubt on future  Lynda Mapes reports. (Seattle Times)

Goodbye, 'pea soup': City funding cleanup of Kitsap Lake's persistent algae blooms
It’s a familiar sight to residents living on the shores of Kitsap Lake: each summer, around the beginning of June, a bright green algae begins to creep across the water. Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, is a potentially toxic algae that has been a persistent problem for homeowners and lake-users for years. Blooms can be harmful to people and pets and have forced closures of Kitsap Lake and its beaches every year for the last five years, much to the chagrin of residents like Jay O’Connor. O’Connor, who has lived on the lake for 16 years, first noticed the blooms around 2008. The yearly explosions of algae seem to get worse every year, he said. Christian Vosler reports. (Kitsap Sun)

KNKX to stop airing Weather with Cliff Mass, effective immediately
"...We turn to our regular commentators for their expertise and points-of-view when it comes to sports, food and the weather. But if a commentator, even on his own independent platform, delivers rhetoric that is offensive and inaccurate, we cannot support it. This is the case today with Cliff Mass. His post on his personal blog compares recent events in Seattle to Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom carried out by Nazi Germany, and draws distorted, offensive parallels between protesters and Nazi Brownshirts. We abhor the comparison and find it sensationalized and misleading — it does not reflect who we are and what we stand for at KNKX. The segment Weather with Cliff Mass will no longer air on KNKX." (KNKX)

Frognal Holdings LLC Bankruptcy Filing
Frognal Holdings LLC filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 23, 2020, in the Western District of Washington. The debtor listed an address of 1610 Everett Mall Way, Everett, and is represented in court by attorney Christine M. Tobin-Presser. Frognal Holdings LLC listed assets up to $30,921,624 and debts up to $11,302,231. The filing's largest creditor was listed as Shaughnessy Capital LLC with an outstanding claim of $10,309,406. [Frognal Estates, formerly known as Horseman's Trail, is a proposed single-family subdivision project for 112 lots. It is an assembly of three currently forested parcels totaling 22.34 acres in the Picnic Point neighborhood, an area between Mukilteo and Edmonds.]

Now, your weekend tug weather--
West Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca-  232 AM PDT Fri Aug 7 2020   
TODAY  Light wind becoming E to 10 kt in the afternoon. Wind  waves 1 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at 10 seconds. A slight chance  of showers. 
TONIGHT  E wind to 10 kt becoming S after midnight. Wind waves  1 ft or less. W swell 5 ft at 10 seconds. Showers likely. 
SAT  W wind to 10 kt rising to 10 to 20 kt in the afternoon.  Wind waves 1 ft or less building to 1 to 3 ft in the afternoon. W  swell 5 ft at 9 seconds. A slight chance of showers in the  morning. 
SAT NIGHT  W wind 15 to 25 kt easing to 10 kt after midnight.  Wind waves 2 to 4 ft subsiding to 1 ft or less after midnight. W  swell 7 ft at 9 seconds. 
SUN  NW wind to 10 kt. Wind waves 1 ft or less. W swell 6 ft at  11 seconds.

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