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Top UN Court Orders Japan to End Antarctic Whaling Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States issued the following statement on the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Japan’s whaling program is a breach of the global whaling moratorium and lacks scientific legitimacy in regard to the quotas set and the numbers taken....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 4:55pm PDT
Injunction Sought to Halt Unnecessary Caltrans Highway-widening in Smith River Canyon CRESCENT CITY, Calif.— Conservation groups filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court on March 20 to halt construction of a Caltrans highway-widening project that would harm threatened coho salmon runs and undermine public safety along the wild and scenic Smith River Canyon in California’s remote Del Norte County. The project is aimed at widening narrow sections of highways 197 and 199 to provide access for oversized trucks. The conservation groups had challenged Caltrans’ approval o...
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 6:49pm PDT
North Coast Fracking, Mendocino and Humboldt County The presence or absence of 'known' producible areal extents of hydrocarbons shifts, bounded by the historical and chronological use of available of technology, and the shifts in area operations due to asset maturity, unstable political climate, citizen actions, Legislative actions, and investments as detailed in a company's forward looking (SEC) profile and production portfolio....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 2:32am PDT
More Whales Slaughtered in Whale Sanctuary - Bob Barker under attack for the third time Today, Sunday March 2, at approximately 10:05 AEDT, Sea Shepherd located the factory vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet, the Nisshin Maru, at 74°23’ S, 178°55’ W inside the Ross Sea Dependency, with a dead, protected Minke Whale onboard, and blood running from the side of the ship. Slabs of whale meat were also photographed on the deck, along with the severed head of a recently butchered whale....
Posted: Sun, Mar 2, 2014 1:24am PST
Update To 25 Years Of Ocean Protection - No Offshore Oil Drilling North Coast This Interim Moratorium On Fracking In Mendocino County, also seeks to employ language that encompasses evolving technologies which may attempt to open up or seek access to, untapped reservoirs or known reserves, whether onshore or offshore, in the unincorporated areas of Mendocino County....
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 1:23am PST
2014 Ocean Fracking Investigation Coastal Commission Report The California Coastal Commission Has Authority to Halt Offshore Fracking. “Approximately half the oil platforms in federal waters in the Santa Barbara Channel discharge all or a portion of their wastewater directly to the ocean, according to a California Coastal Commission document. This produced wastewater contains all of the chemicals injected originally into the fracked wells, with the addition of toxins gathered from the subsurface environment.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 4:49am PST
A Victory for Richardson Grove SAN FRANCISCO— The California Court of Appeal today ordered Caltrans to reevaluate the environmental impacts of a controversial highway-widening project in Humboldt County that would harm irreplaceable old-growth redwood trees in Richardson Grove State Park. The appeals court unanimously found that Caltrans failed to follow the law in assessing impacts on ancient redwoods and providing mitigation measures to reduce potentially severe harm to the trees. Caltrans’ project — intended to allow bi...
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2014 5:20pm PST
$350 million available to North Coast, Central Coast and San Francisco Bay The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Flood Protection Act of 2014, SB 42 authored by Senator Lois Wolk, addresses California water woes in ways that strive protect the rights of and needs of people and their health and safety throughout the State. SB 42 is a Capital budget language equivalent, of numerous concerns related to the December 24, 2013 addition of clarification language to SB 4. In it's own way, SB 42 addresses, among current neglected impacts, potential cumulative impacts i...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 1:34pm PST
Frac ALERT for Coastal and Northern California Basin Aquifers Two weeks ago, and with just 7-9 days left to make comments, - Clarification language was added by DOGGR that an aquifer deemed exempt under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act is not protected water. Much of this comes from the Underground Injection Program, basically left out of the 'new' fracking regulations. Except, that is, as it benefits the industry, with clarification of remote aquifer exemptions to assist extractive industrial surface leases by alter-legal claims on subsurface water rig...
Posted: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 2:22pm PST
Federal Court Allows Destructive Willits Bypass Project to Move Forward SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge ruled on December 19 that the California Department of Transportation’s environmental review and permits for the Willits Bypass were adequate and the agency can continue construction of a four-lane freeway around the community of Willits in Mendocino County. The disappointing ruling comes despite the fact that construction has destroyed and damaged sensitive wetlands, the headwaters of salmon-bearing streams, oak woodlands and endangered species habitats....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 8:47pm PST
State Acknowledges Wolves Returning to California, But Wavers on Protection SAN FRANCISCO— Documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity — which petitioned in February 2012 for state protection for gray wolves — show state wildlife officials and independent scientists agree that wolves are likely to return to California. The prediction has been reinforced over the past two weeks, when the wolf known as OR-7 made two more forays into the state from Oregon....
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 5:42pm PST
California's Lone Wolf Returns, Highlighting Need for Wolf Protection SAN FRANCISCO— California’s first confirmed wild wolf in nearly 90 years made a return trip to the Golden State for a brief visit this past weekend. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the wolf called OR-7 crossed the border into Siskiyou County on Dec. 7, then returned to Oregon. His brief foray back into California supports the position advanced by wolf advocates that wolves from Oregon will continue to make their way into the state and that the species thus warrant...
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 3:47pm PST
Elevated Rates Of Thyroid Disease In California Newborn Linked To Fukushima Fallout A new study indicates that rates of a thyroid disease in California newborn spiked after they were exposed to fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011....
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 9:58pm PST
Senate Legislation Legitimizes Lawless Surveillance police state...
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 12:13am PST
Denim Jeans are Destroying the environment... If everyone who cared realized how blue jeans were manufactured, perhaps they would think twice about buying them. I saw this on the website below. It is quite bleak....
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 6:42pm PDT
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