This Harvey was no six-foot invisible rabbit. This Harvey dropped four-feet-two-inches of rain on millions of Texans in less than a week. When that many inches of rain land in your community in one storm, you can bet on a flood of tragic proportions. In Texas, 1 million people evacuated and hundreds of thousands are …
Stop Pipeline threat to Puget Sound
Recently Todd Paglia and Karen Mahon wrote the Seattle Times concerning the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline. They argue that If built, this Canadian pipeline project would increase the marine traffic by more than 400 tankers per year. This poses unacceptable risks to our Sound. Read the letter here: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/stop-canadian-pipeline-that-threatens-puget-sound-orcas/
More Tanker Traffic in the Strait?
In a letter to the editors of Peninsula Daily News, November 6, 2017, Brian Grad wrote: Oil tankers have delivered North Slope crude for decades through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and although that history hasn’t been spill-free, we’ve come to accept that traffic, governed by federal law, as an acceptable risk. Would it …
Climate Science Special Report
"WASHINGTON — Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization." "Despite the scientific consensus presented in the report, the …
Mazaska talks; the banks are listening!
Indigenous people just led the largest EVER protest of bank financing of fossil fuels. DAPL was just the beginning. https://t.co/TwvsyRFTPp — Mazaska Talks (@MazaskaTalks) October 27, 2017 BREAKING: The 91 Equator Banks are revising their principles on indigenous rights & climate change for the next 18 months! Keep up the pressure by taking the pledge …
Olympic Climate Action 