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Category: Natural Resources

Community voices / Cascadia’s media ecosystem connects our cross-border bioregion

The views expressed in the essays, analyses and opinions as Community Voices are those of the author exclusively and not … More

business innovation, Cascadia, civic engagement, climate change, cross-border issues, nonprofit news, open-access publishing, urban sustainability

Oil train derailment in Whatcom County drives home transport risk concerns

By Kimberly Cauvel — When an oil train derailed in a fiery crash in Custer in December, about 29,000 gallons of the … More

Bakken crude, BNSF Railway, Cherry Point refineries, crude oil, Ecology, Lummi Nation, National Transportation Safety Board, oil spill, oil train derailment, Whatcom County

New thinking, new technology needed for ‘transformation’ to a greener future

By Heather Spaulding — For over a century, hydroelectricity has provided the Pacific Northwest with clean energy. But over the … More

dams, Environmental Studies Building, fossil fuels, hydroelectric power, renewable energy, salmon recovery, San Juan Islands, solar array, Southern Resident killer whale, Whatcom County

Vulnerable lands — and creatures — of San Juan Islands National Monument await management details

By Genevieve Iverson — One thousand acres of unique and fragile San Juan Islands land sit waiting for an imminent … More

Bureau of Land Management, camas, Coast Salish tribes, endangered species, national monument, Salish Sea, San Juan Islands, Tulalip Tribe of Washington

Unlikely partners’ compromise will halt new fossil-fuel development at Cherry Point

By Kimberly Cauvel — An effort to steer future development at Whatcom County’s primary industrial center away from fossil fuels … More

Cherry Point Refinery, climate change, economic development, fossil fuels, Whatcom County

Community Voices / Nooksack water rights adjudication is an existential threat to farming’s future

By Henry Bierlink — My friend Eric Hirst expressed his opinion that a water rights adjudication would be a step forward for … More

Nooksack River, water rights, Whatcom County

Proposed Roberts Bank terminal will add cargo capacity — but at what cost to Salish Sea

By Kimberly Cauvel  — Updated Aug. 26, 2020. In the shadow of the contested Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion is another … More

Commerce, Roberts Bank, Salish Sea, San Juan Islands, Shipping, Southern Resident orca, Whatcom County

More scrutiny sought on proposed logging around North Fork near Glacier

By Alex Meacham — The U.S. Forest Service has proposed logging about 5,700 acres near the North Fork of the … More

Commerce, logging

New oil spill response base in Friday Harbor will address present — and growing — threat

By Genevieve Iverson — Late one night, a fishing boat runs aground on the north shore of Patos Island with … More

clean water, oil spill, San Juan Islands

Water concerns spark funding request for groundwater studies for San Juans, Guemes

Update: As of adjournment of the 2020 state legislative session on March 12, Sen. Liz Lovelett’s office reported that funding … More

drinking water, Guemes Island, San Juan Islands, water supply, well water

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