Last Tuesday afternoon, Journal reader Rachael Brilbeck went for a stroll on the beach on the North Spit, right across from the Evergreen Pulp Mill, which is currently shuttered. Everything was normal when she set off on her walk, but when she returned an hour and a half later she saw something strange. At some […]
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Rep. Mike hits ground running
This just in from Mike Thompson’s office: Congressman Thompson Introduces Bill to Permanently Ban Drilling on North Coast WASHINGTON – On the first day in the 111th Congress, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) introduced a bill that would permanently prohibit oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. […]
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Driving into the Hydrogen Future
Humboldt State unveiled its hydrogen fueling station today with Rep. Mike Thompson here to help with the ribbon-cutting and talk about the role the Schatz Energy Research Center is playing in our renewable energy future. He’s shown above driving HSU’s hydrogen-powered car, which he’d just helped fill with fuel. Here’s a soundbite from Rep. Mike’s […]
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Eureka declared one of the best
The folks over at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau want you to know that Outside Magazine selected Eureka as one of the best towns in the America, ranking it No. 8 on a list of 20. The blurb incudes shout-outs to the Accident Gallery , the Boardwalk, the Arkley Center (identified as the […]
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Gold war
Tis the season for dredge miners to dust off their campers and mosey into the mountains for river gold. Tis also budget season, and the Karuk Tribe and California Trout have asked Gov. Schwarzenegger to endorse a provision that the state legislature added to the 2008 Budget Bill that would place a moratorium on suction […]
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Will the dams come down?
A recent AP story reports that the U.S. government and PacifiCorp are involved in talks that may eventually lead to a plan for dam removal on the Klamath River: PacifiCorp, the federal government and the states of Oregon and California are in talks over how to resolve a proposal to remove four hydroelectric dams on […]
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Dirty birds
Dear old Clam Beach has made the list that no self-respecting body of sand and surf would want to be on: The Top Ten Beach Bummers. Heal the Bay, a nonprofit environmental group, puts this list together each year as part of an annual water quality report card issued for more than 500 California beaches […]
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Van Eck Forest
NPR’s Weekend Edition has a story about the carbon credit industry in California that focuses on the Van Eck Forest in Humboldt County. Tamara Keith of the California Report reports. Listen here . Also, read this December, 2007 Journal story about the forest if you haven’t already.
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Harvard wants Humboldt redwoods (update)
from the AP wire service via Forbes online: Harvard endowment wants to take over bankrupt Pacific Lumber Harvard University’s endowment said Thursday it’s interested in buying more than 200,000 acres of timberlands in California as part of a plan to take over logging company Pacific Lumber Co. and bring it out of bankruptcy. An attorney […]
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Oops: Local Power Plant Belches Black Smoke
A Loleta resident called the Journal today to tell us she had seen black smoke “belching” from the stacks of the PG&E power plant early yesterday afternoon. About an hour later she called the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District to file a complaint — the NCUAQMD told her they weren’t aware of a […]