New "Grass Roots Nonprofit" Group Seeks Changes in Dungeness Valley Water Rule
3,000 post cards will be mailed out to Clallam County residents, asking them to help change the new water rule for the Dungeness Valley. These cards are being sent by the Olympic Resource Protection Council, which is funded by the North Peninsula Building Association.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:32 AM
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"Olympic Resource Protection Council" Oh, that sounds like they want to PROTECT the environment, not relax laws so that they can destroy even more of it by building all over it.
But we see it is actually a front for the real estate industry: ".. which is funded by the North Peninsula Building Association."
The American Way. Say anything you need to in the pursuit of profit. Who cares that already, more water has been allocated from the Dungeness River, than there is water flowing in it? That if everyone with water rights exercised their "rights", there would be NO water in that river. No problem, as far as these people are concerned. All they care about is making more money, no matter what the impacts.
These people should be ashamed of themselves.
What a clever ruse to masquerade as an "educational" non profit. Wealthy Wall Streeters and greedy "let's exploit all we can for personal gain" types elsewhere in the USA have successfully enhanced their personal ambitions and increased their political influence by raking in "charitable contributions" for dubiously legitimate non-profit entities.
Predictable that the phenomenon would be imported to Clallam.
Need another example of how stupid the leadership in Port Angeles is? How about yesterday's story about the City offering sponsorships for the construction of new beaches as part of their multi-million dollar waterfront project?
As governments around the world plan for the continuing rise of the sea's level, moving critical infrastructure to higher ground, Port Angeles spends millions to build new facilities ON the water's edge, and to build new BEACHES!!
Really! I'm not kidding!
Not all surprised to see Kaj behind this one. Their website doesn't say anything about being a 501(c)(3) so it must just be a state non-profit. At least they aren't getting tax deductions from it.
And the whole waterfront project is so ridiculous I have a hard time comprehending it.
The Parks advisory board met last night to talk about the Lincoln park plan to send to the City Council so you can look forward to another ridiculous project soon.
I'm also pretty pissed about this $5/month harbor study "fee" just showing up on my utility bill without any vote.
Let's review the major projects going on now:
* Rayonier clean-up, probably will never finish but at least it doesn't cost us much
*Combined Sewer Overflows and massive tank of shit on the shoreline, with huge fees for all utilities customers, tens of millions
* Harbor Clean-up Study (and eventual clean-up with more "fees")
*Multi-stage Waterfront improvement (millions of dollars for a few blocks that most residents don't even use), tens of millions
* Lincoln Park master plan, $30 million easy, not to mention ongoing maintain of all the new "features"
* Re-routing the truck route across Lauridsen, right by one school and library and near another school, and lots of residences
* Landfill bluff stabilization that will cost millions
Almost a quarter of my property taxes go to the City, not to mention sales taxes from "buying local" and another few hundred from the CSO and harbor study fees Those projects are not the ways I want my money spent.
This article is on the front page of today's PDN but it's not anywhere on the PDN website. I bet the powers that be don't want the riffraff commenting on it.
I'm trying to decide if I'm part of the riffraff.
More details are in the Sequim Gazette on-line version, including the info that the organizers are applying for federal 501(c)(3) status as a charitable non-profit.
Interesting that the PDN story wasn't on-line.
NOTE: Sorry for the long delay in publishing that last comment. My computer crashed yesterday and it'll be a few days before I can get it fixed. I don't have a laptop or smart phone or anything. I'll try to make it to a public computer when I can, but there'll probably be long delays between comments being published.
You don't have a smart phone? Dat's interesting, I don't have one either, but I do have a notebook dat I can take to the library to get on the internut with.
Wow, Seattle Times is going to start charging to make my computer crash! ...good luck Tom.
Ownership of "property" is THEFT!
Very funny letter and discussion, online, at the Leader's website about dogs and leashes...and the PA hater has a twin:
Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Article comment by: Innocent Bystander
I'm so glad I don't live in Port Townsend anymore. It's just a polished, hollow facsimile of its former remarkable self.
I'D LIKE TO SEE HOW THE SCAN TURNED OUT.
This "grassroots" group is about as "grassroots" as the Federal Government. The well established economic interests looking to continue to rape, pillage and plunder, regardless of any negative impacts to anyone else.
We want Mayor Max, not Mayor Smokestax!
Shame we don't elect a mayor AND a manager, in ONE position. Such a money grab....fucking makes me boil. Max would win.
There needs to be SOME appearance of fairness in government. Of course, this does not apply in Port Angeles.
The Dungeness Valley Creamery whole, raw, Jersey cows' milk in my fridge has been open for fourteen days and it is still good.
However, the "organic", dead milk in my fridge (for guests) five days open, tastes funny, has one more day left, tops, till it enters the Straits.
We are very lucky to have an outstanding operating raw milk dairy in our area. Long live the Dungeness Valley.
Max will never be mayor. He is not a savior. There is no savior, no hope, for Port Angeles.
I heard that the Dungeness River Management Team plans to celebrate the fact that they've been in existence and collaborating to solve the valley's water problems for 25 years. A quarter century of "stakeholder involvement" and collaboration on water problems has led to ---- what that is positive except for the salaries of all the public officials who are paid to attend DRMT meetings and alternately wring their hands or celebrate that they hold a statewide record for the longevity of locally run watershed (mis)management.
At Anon 5:16
I've spent quite a bit of time in local government, and also with the DRMT. It is hard to believe you know much about the DRMT, if you can come up with such knee-jerk comments.
You might try to look up all the salmon restoration, watershed conservation and restoration projects the DRMT has reviewed and advised upon, over the last 25 years. The amount of scientific studies and other ACTUAL information that has been brought to public attention through the DRMT.
Compared to most of the other local groups, the DRMT is actually a productive and important group of professionals who put a lot of effort into improving the area.
Having said that, I do think the "Water Banking" idea is less than wonderful. That was pushed onto the community by the Dept. of Ecology.
There is no doubt something has to be done to address the over allocation of the water in Dungeness River. Denying a problem exists, and mis-informing the public with a shill group is not the answer.
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