Change of Circumstance, Law, Since Entry of Appeal
"beneficiary' with "standing" and lot's more, Click Below
Source and Full Document
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzn2NurXrSkiMkVoQUlWR1daSk0/view?usp=sharing
AND Memorandum Filing, Read all of Both. Very Good Stuff
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzn2NurXrSkiSm9KbnR4alhQYVE/view?usp=sharing
Friday, July 7, 2017
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Scientists seek to silence sonar in the Salish Sea
"The following open letter was sent today to Governmental and Naval leaders on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. As of 3/11/2012 it has been signed by 20 biologists and bioacousticians who have studied the killer whales of the Salish Sea. (When sent initially, 16 had signed).
To:
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, National Defence Headquarters ( dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca )
Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy ( ray.mabus@navy.mil )
Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, Office of the Undersecretary, US Department of Commerce ( jane.lubchenco@noaa.gov )
The Honorable Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State ( clintonhr@state.gov )
Subject:
Silence Sonar in the Salish Sea
As biologists and bioacousticians who study killer whales of the Salish Sea, we ask that the U.S. Navy and Canadian Navy cease using sonar in their critical habitat.
Polluting their environment with intense underwater noise like the “pings” from mid-frequency active sonar poses significant risks to these Federally-listed species.
On February 6, 2012, the Canadian Naval frigate HMCS Ottawa used its sonar system in critical habitat of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales during a training exercise east of Victoria, B.C.
The calls of the Southern Residents’ K and L pods were heard 18 hours later in Haro Strait, and sub-groups of K and L pods were identified 36 hours after the sonar use in Discovery Bay – a location where Southern Residents have never been sighted in 22 years of records.
These observations are reminiscent of an incident in May, 2003, when the USS Shoup’s sonar training exercise caused similar unusual nearshore surface milling behavior of Southern Residents in Haro Strait.
New limits should be put on the use of mid-frequency active (MFA) sonar, particularly in the critical habitat of the Southern Residents.
Killer whales are sensitive to the frequencies emitted by MFA sonar (2-10 kHz) and use the same frequency range to communicate with calls and whistles. Because MFA sonar is intense (source levels ~220-235 underwater decibels), it could permanently or temporarily deafen whales that are unexpectedly nearby and thereby impact their ability to forage, navigate, and socialize.
Even temporary threshold shifts could be deleterious because the recovery of the Southern Residents hinges on their use of echolocation to find, identify, and acquire their primary prey, Pacific salmon.
Current procedures for mitigating underwater military noise are inadequate to protect either the resident or transient ecotypes.
These procedures depend on the ability to detect whales within 1000 yards (U.S.) or 4000 yards (Canada), which neither passive acoustic listening nor visual surveillance can reliably accomplish.
The unprecedented sighting of Southern Residents in Discovery Bay suggests that they may have been present during the pre-dawn sonar exercise on February 6 while remaining undetected by the Canadian Navy’s marine mammal monitoring procedures.
Moreover, we know from the 2003 Shoup incident and the scientific literature that MFA sonar can disrupt marine mammal behavior well beyond the current mitigation distances, particularly in the sound propagation conditions of the Salish Sea.
We therefore urge the U.S. and Canadian Navies to restrict MFA sonar and other intense underwater sound sources in all training and testing conducted in the Salish Sea.
By protecting the whales’ acoustic habitat, our Navies can help further their respective country’s obligations to ensure the recovery of these endangered iconic populations while still fulfilling their important National security missions.
Signed (alphabetically):
David Bain, Ph.D
Robin Baird, Research Biologist, Cascadia Research Collective
Stefan Bråger, Research Director/Curator, The Whale Museum
John Calambokidis, Research Biologist, Cascadia Research Collective
Fred Felleman, Vice-President, Board of Directors, The Whale Museum
Andrew Foote, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Deborah Giles, MSc, PhD Candidate/Research Biologist, UC Davis
Rachael Griffin, B.Sc. Marine Biology, Aquagreen Marine Research, Victoria, BC
Erin Heydenreich, Field Biologist, Senior staff at the Center for Whale Research
Cara Lachmuth, MSc., Contract Biologist, Victoria, BC
Patrick Miller, Lecturer, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Joseph Olson, President, Cetacean Research Technology
Richard Osborne, Ph.D., Research Associate, The Whale Museum
Paul Spong, Director, OrcaLab and Pacific Orca Society, Alert Bay, BC
Helena Symonds, Director, OrcaLab and Pacific Orca Society, Alert Bay, BC
Scott Veirs, President, Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School
Val Veirs, Professor of Physics, Colorado College
Monika Wieland, BA in Biology, Reed College
Jason Wood, Ph.D., Research Associate, The Whale Museum
Harald Yurk, Research Associate, Vancouver Aquarium
The following recipients were copied on the email:
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Representative Norm Dicks
Representative Jay Inslee
Governor Chris Gregoire
Will Stelle, NOAA NW Regional Administer
Lynne Barre, NOAA NW Regional Office
Brad Hason, NOAA NWFSC
Dr. John Ford, DFO
Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet
Rear Admiral Douglass T. Biesel, Commander Navy Region Northwest
Renee Wallis, Navy Region NW
Lieutenant Diane Larose, Canadian Navy Public Affairs
Regional “Points of Contact” (POCs) for further information:
Admiral Cecil D. Haney
Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet
cpf.webmaster@navy.mil
(808) 471-9727
Rear Admiral Douglass T. Biesel
Commander Navy Region Northwest
(360) 396-1630
Lieutenant Diane Larose
Navy Public Affairs
(250) 363-5789
Source
Port Townsend City Mayor David King Letter to EIS Project Manager regarding Electronic Warfare Machines and Massive Jet Noise coming to Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula.
Click Below to Read the Letter From Port Townsend, Washington City Mayor David King to the NAVY / EIS Project Manager regarding the Electronic Warfare Training on our Coasts.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzn2NurXrSkiVjFZTmR4S05KelE/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bzn2NurXrSkiVjFZTmR4S05KelE/edit
Monday, December 22, 2014
Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism - Time for the TRUTH and to STOP Lies in Media to Protect Evil. Do your Homework. EXPOSE Corruption EVERYWHERE. Start a Blog, Video Events, Post Documents of Proof; YOU are the NEWS. YOU are the Media.
Outfoxed • Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism • FULL DOCUMENTARY • BRAVE NEW FILMS
Stop Believing your Television News; STOP LOOK LISTEN
Fear, Censorship, Flat out Lies and
So many Believed Blindly; STOP
Start a Blog, Be the REAL NEWS in your Area.
Take Videos, Record Events and Cops, Do Press Releases Yourself, Take Videos of YOU talking about what is really going on in your town, your local government and what you know and are seeing. Post Documents and Video of PROOF.
You are The REAL MEDIA.
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YOU ARE THE NEWS
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Port Townsend Paper, Mineral Technologies Looks Like YOU will be Paying a HUGE Tax for Poisoning US. Paying to POLLUTE.
"I had the opportunity to talk with then Congressman Jay Inslee at length at Netroots Nation 2009 in Pittsburgh. We spent most of that time talking about transitioning to sustainable energy. He coauthored a book about that very subject and named Apollo's Fire. I read Inslee's book. Jay Inslee gets it like few other politicians in this country do.
Today as Governor Inslee proposed a Carbon Charge assessing the state's largest GHG emitters when they exceed set emissions levels to help pay for transportation infrastructure projects, in a time when gas taxes are diminishing due to more efficient vehicles and other factors.
Inslee: Make big polluters pay for transportation projects
By Mike LindblomAfter two years of watching gas-tax increases tank in the Legislature, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed Tuesday to take a new approach: Charge major polluters for the right to emit carbon.Inslee’s plan, featuring a “cap-and-trade” system, would generate $400 million a year, he said, to cover nearly 40 percent of his $12 billion, 12-year transportation improvement plan. The remainder would come from bond debt, existing gas taxes, tolls and an assortment of vehicle fees.
“We can clean our air and water at the same time we are fixing our air and our roads,” Inslee said in Medina, overlooking the 520 construction site. “It is indeed a twofer.”This program would send energy consumers all the signals to help more toward a more sustainable energy system for the state of Washington.
Inslee, who is spending the week rolling out his budget wish list, is expected to announce further details about his Carbon Pollution Accountability Act, with his full budget proposal to come Thursday.What the Democratic governor did make clear Tuesday is that in the face of Republican gains in the Legislature, he is holding fast to his idea that climate-change legislation can pay for much of government’s costs.The governor said he aims to reach across the so-called Cascade Curtain and connect all of Washington through a “bipartisan spirit” that aims to “reduce the hours we spend on the roads away from our families.”
Taxing carbon is a more in the right direction. Last year Republicans blocked passage of a bill with proposed transportation infrastructure projects."
Source
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/17/1352606/-Washington-Governor-Jay-Inslee-proposes-a-Carbon-Charge-for-big-polluters#Port Townsend Paper Mill, Mineral Technologies, will most Likely be buying a few Bridges in Washington State along with lots of other projects paid for as they are one of Washington States BIGGEST Polluters and they are Jefferson County Washington's BIGGEST industrial polluter.
Washington's Governor Calling for Clean Air and Clean Water. WOW
What will the Port Townsend Paper Mill, Minerals Technology (MTX) do?
Well if the TRUTH is told and their POLLUTION in our air, soil and water is not covered up by the City of Port Townsend, Jefferson County, the Port Townsend Leader, the Washington EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology WELL then they will buying a multi-billion dollar floating bridge for the State of Washington.
However, for now they seem to be getting away with the LIE thanks to Jefferson County Commissioners, the Port Townsend Leader, one or more insiders at the EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology and the City of Port Townsend.
"Inslee to lay out ideas for cap-and-trade, carbon tax"
http://crosscut.com/2014/07/28/washington-governor/121225/inslee-set-lay-out-ideas-climate-change-cap-and-tr/Linked Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Tax
http://governor.wa.gov/issues/climate/documents/20140729_CERT_MeetingMaterials.pdf
Washington Gov. Proposes Major Carbon Tax To Fund Pressing Transportation Needs
"Inslee hopes to fund the $12 billion plan with bonds, fees and a carbon charge on the state's industrial polluters. The market-based carbon pollution charge will generate $7 billion over 12 years, he said. The fee will generate the equivalent of a 12 cent gas tax without hurting consumers, he said."
"All of this can be done with "a new and bold idea that will breathe new life" into the state - the polluter's fee, he said.
"We can clean our air and water at the same time we are fixing our air and our roads," he said. "It is indeed a two-for."
Source and Full Article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/17/washington-carbon-tax_n_6337242.html
Enforce the LAW.
Tax PT Paper Heavily.
Force them to OBEY the LAW.
Sue them, file criminal charges where it applies. As Governor Inslee said last night on the News, Clean Air is the LAW. Not just the right thing to do. It is the LAW.
The Port Townsend Paper Mill is Clearly Violating Washington Laws on Carbon aren't they? And they sure seem to be violating the clean air act and Jefferson County seems to be aiding and abetting this. Rumor has it that one of the County Commissioners is paid in an untraceable account to defend them at all county events, law making sessions and basically to aid and abet.
I say file complaints, lawsuits and even criminal complaints against Port Townsend Paper, Dale Stahl, Roger Hagan, AMCOL, and Minerals Technology Inc.
Port Townsend Paper is NOT above the LAW
Expose all people who are aiding and abetting them to
BREAK THE LAW.
File Charges against ALL acting in conspiracy
to Obstruct Justice.
WASHINGTON CLEAN AIR ACT
Air Pollution and the Clean Air Act
More information at
You have a Legal Right to Clean Air
(MTX) According to the Washington's Governor our "right" to Clean Air, is LAW. "the state’s major polluters" YA YOU Port Townsend Paper. You are going to PAY for all the Roads and Bridges in Washington. The EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology, as well as your "Commissioner" and local Paper all covering for you, well those days are soon to end. The TRUTH will SOON replace the LIE. And clean air will replace the Toxic Air you are serving us up.
Our Washington Governor Said it is the LAW that we have Clean Air
"Gov. Inslee Wants To Cap And Tax Emissions From Washington State’s Major Polluters"
"Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has big plans for carbon reductions in his state, as outlined in climate change and transportation proposals announced by the governor’s office this week.
On Tuesday, Inslee announced a proposed tax on the carbon emissions for Washington’s major polluters. The proposal, which is part of Inslee’s transportation plan, would force major polluters in the state’s oil and gas industry to pay for the carbon they emit. The revenue gathered from the carbon tax, according to Inslee’s office, would total about $4.8 billion over the next 12 years — about the same amount as would be raised by a 12-cent increase in the state’s gas tax."
"As part of the plan, the state’s major polluters — the “relatively small number of businesses” that, according to the governor’s office, are responsible for 85 percent of the state’s emissions — would have their emissions capped. Over time, that cap will be lowered, as a way to prod the businesses to transition to cleaner, more efficient energy sources."
"“I believe it’s our destiny to lead in clean energy. Washington may be less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the world’s population, but we’re number one in the world in software, in aerospace, in apples, in online retailing,” Inslee said in a statement Wednesday. “We can choose cleaner air, more efficient cars and a better transportation system. We can choose energy independence. We have a choice in our future, and we’re choosing to take action.”
These proposals aren’t yet a done deal: they’ll be introduced to the state’s legislature in 2015. But if they are approved, they would serve as a step toward Washington’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The proposals follow a April 2014 executive order by Gov. Inslee to reduce the state’s carbon emissions and increase its use of renewable energy."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/17/3604669/inslee-washington-state-tax-cap-emissions/
A Governor Hell Bent on Clean Air Rights; WOW
BAD News for Mineral Technologies Inc. (MTX)
Executive Orders, Law, Tax; How will Port Townsend Paper and Mineral Technologies stay in business? Well they will lie and the Washington Dept. of Ecology insider(s) will cover for them as well as the Washington EPA and the Port Townsend Commissioners. Oh and the Port Townsend Leader will report on the LIE as if it were the TRUTH and WaLa Magic Happens and you breath poison, get sick and are forced to leave Port Townsend.
Port Townsend Paper, AMCOL, Mineral Technology's paper plant in the state of Washington emits 1.6 times as much CO2 as ALL other sources in Jefferson County Washington.
Make sure that this is reported often. They will most likely pay for all the roads and bridges in the state as clearly they are a HUGE offender.
"Port Townsend Paper= 611,864 tons per year of CO2e"
Sourcehttp://ptairwatchers.org/2014/10/06/pt-paper-emits-1-6-times-as-much-co2-as-all-other-sources-in-jeffco-wa/
Those who work at the mill now can still work there another 20 years in clean up for good pay. So time to Shut Down the Toxic Air Factory and start the cleanup.
More at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Port-Townsend-Paper-Mill/245153762294452
http://rogerhaganporttownsendpaper.blogspot.com/
http://ptairwatchers.org/
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