2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘impacts’
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Housing Element EIR recirculated
Posted in current events, local, tagged ceqa, housing, humboldt, impacts, local, planning, politics on 18 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Received from the Humboldt County Planning Division yesterday; if you’re interested in commenting, note the date of the public hearing, which is tonight in Eureka. This is a revised version from the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that was prepared in February and circulated in April. According to its introduction, the Supplemental EIR was [...]
Melting glaciers mean redrawing border between Italy and Switzerland
Posted in current events, environment, tagged climate, environment, google earth, impacts, maps, politics on 25 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to global climate change and the resulting world-wide glacier meltdown, Switzerland and Italy now have to redraw their border. The draft law has already been endorsed by the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, and is expected to become law before the end of April; Switzewrland has already agreed to the new border. The current [...]
U.S. bird populations and diversity in decline?
Posted in current events, environment, science, tagged birds, environment, habitat, impacts, science on 20 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the recently released U.S State of the Birds 2009 report, a study prepared under the Bush administration by 13 major agencies and conservation organizations, almost one third of the 800 species of birds found in the US are “endangered, threatened or in significant decline”, particularly due to the influence of human activity, loss [...]
Napa to Willits rail: draft EIR released
Posted in current events, local, tagged california, ceqa, impacts, local, planning, transportation on 16 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Monday, March 9, the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) released a draft environmental impact report (EIR) disclosing the expected environmental impacts of reestablishing freight train operations on the Russian River Division, a 142-mile stretch of the Northwestern Pacific (NWP) line between Lombard in Napa County and Willits in Mendocino County. This signals the start [...]
U.S. House approves funds for dredging Crescent City harbour
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged california, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, transportation on 2 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Crescent City Daily Triplicate announced on Saturday that an appropriations bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives included $1.6 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Crescent City’s harbour. The bill stills needs to pass the Senate vote and be signed by President Obama before the Corps officially gets [...]
Northwest Training Range Complex: comment period extended
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged california, humboldt, impacts, local, nepa, oregon, planning, washington on 18 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The comment period for the Navy’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Northwest Training Range Complex (NWTRC) has been extended. It was originally closing on February 11, but has been prolonged to March 11 — instead of April 11, as the Oregon congressional delegation had requested. A hearing was recently held in Eureka on [...]
Housing Element Draft EIR
Posted in current events, local, tagged ceqa, housing, humboldt, impacts, local, planning, politics on 17 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Housing Element portion of the Humboldt County General Plan Update has been released. The EIR is required under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). And to kick off this part of the planning process, I will discuss the basics of the CEQA process in upcoming posts, [...]
Navy hearing: Northwest Training Range Complex
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged california, humboldt, impacts, local, nepa, oregon, planning, washington on 29 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As pointed out in Monday’s North Coast Journal and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Navy plans to increase training for Washington-based units in the waters off the Northwest that it has been using since World War II — all the way to California coastal waters. The Northwest Training Range Complex includes several areas in the Pacific; [...]
Richardson Grove EIR comments
Posted in current events, environment, local, tagged ceqa, environment, impacts, local, nepa, planning, transportation on 28 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I wrote a couple of times in December about the draft environmental impact report (EIR)/environmental assessment (EA) prepared by the California Department of Transportation for the Richardson Grove improvement project. I thought I’d share the comments I sent to CalTrans. As a reminder, the comment period has been extended by one week to end on [...]
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