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WEB3 days ago · The offshore energy industry is targeting the Pacific Coast and the Salish Sea. September 9, 2024. Commentary: Washington and Oregon are aggressively working to industrialize the coastal Pacific ocean and Salish Sea with offshore wind, wave, and tidal current energy projects. Elisabeth Robson.
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WEBThe Salish Current is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, online local news organization serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. Based in Bellingham, we serve 400,000 residents and tens of thousands of annual visitors to the three-county area. Our region is the ancestral home of Native treaty tribes including the Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Sauk ...
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WEBNewsletter. Whatcom Falls 1999 disaster memorial story pole, Lummi House of Tears Carvers (Matt Benoit) Salish Current ‘s newsletter delivers: our newest stories from and about Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties, and. a curated list of links to news stories published by U.S. and Canadian local news media around the Salish Sea.
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WEBMar 17, 2022 · Current Affairs 2024 Speaker Series. Truth, Trust and the News 2023: “Calling Bullshit “. Sponsored by Salish Current, Western Washington University’s Ralph Munro. Institute for Civic Education and Whatcom Community College, in partnership. with Village Books; April 13, 2023. Watch the video [talk begins at 25.30]. Read the book review.
2021: A look back at some stories from the first full year of Salish ...
WEBDec 31, 2021 · 2021 was a year like no other, with themes such as public health vis-à-vis COVID-19 and opioid addiction; social justice in the courts, the arts, housing and policing; and climate change and natural resources including water rights management. Salish Current offers a look back via articles published during the …
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
WEBSep 6, 2023 · The signs and attention are meant to prepare people, especially visitors, for the certainty of a tsunami, if not the precise timing and magnitude of it. But at times, fatalism settles in. Rusk said, “If the tsunami comes, then maybe it was sort of meant to be.”. Still, making a plan is smart. Ray has an informal one.
Have enough water? San Juan prepares to find out, with USGS study
WEBJul 21, 2021 · That survey was completed in 2002, when the county’s year-round population stood at 14,077, and was based on field work done in 1997 and 1998. “The total cost of the [new] study for San Juan County is $150,000, with USGS providing a share of $58,000,” said environmental health specialist Ethan Schmidt. The county has had some extra time ...
Anticipated Salish Sea vessel traffic increases spark calls for more ...
WEBJan 28, 2022 · Ready to assist large vessels transiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and outer coast, the tug Barbara Foss sits dockside at Neah Bay. As vessel traffic is expected to increase in the region, some are calling for additional safeguards against associated risks — such as devastating oil spills.
After the flood: still rebuilding amid uncertainty, anxiety—and ...
WEBNov 17, 2022 · Editor’s note: Salish Current continues its coverage of Nooksack flooding by revisiting the people and the places written about in earlier stories: “Flood survivors face next flood season while awaiting long-term fixes,” Sept. 15, 2022 “Flood recovery continues in Sumas, seven months on,” June 24, 2022 “Whatcom farmers face manure management challenges after flooding,” Dec. 22, 2021
Community Voices / Is time running out? Streamflow trends in the ...
WEBDec 15, 2021 · Over the past 55 years (1967–2021) Nooksack River summer streamflow, measured by the U.S. Geological Survey in Ferndale, has been declining, at an average of 0.5% per year. However, this adverse trend is accelerating: during the past 12 years (2010 through 2021), flows declined by 5% per year. Overall summer streamflow declines on the ...
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