News Articles and other items of interest
"An afternoon on Hood Canal"

7/23/08   PT Leader   (Read entire article)
7/22/08   Commissioners Letter   Read letter
7/04/08   Puget Sound Partnership   Puget Sound Partnership Document
7/02/08   Doug Sutherland   Commissioner of Public Lands comments on FHM Pit to Pier Project
7/02/08   Jay Inslee   Read Jay Inslee letter opposing the FHM P2P proj.
6/30/08       Norm Dicks - The Hood Canal Science Summit
4/17/08       Peter Goldmark's recent statement on the pit-to-pier project
4/3/08   Seattle PI  

This guest column appeared Thursday, April 3rd.

2/18/08   Congressman Jay Inslee   Letter to John Fabian voicing his opposition to the Pit-To-Pier project
10/18.07   Olympic Peninsula Environmental News   (Tribes way in on Pit To Pier)
10/09/07       Navy Raises New Concerns About Pit-to-Pier
9/02/07   Kitsap Sun   Read editorial
8/27/07   EIS Document PTP   Read entire document
8/22/07   Port Townsend Leader   Public comment starts on pit-to-pier project
7/11/07   Port Townsend Leader   Fred Hill Materials, county at odds over consultant
4/4/07   Port Townsend Leader   FHM pushed bills to make point on pit-to-pier process
4/4/07   Seattle PI   We have to 'tell the truth' to save orcas and Puget
Sound
11/11/06   The SeattleTimes   Gravel-mine plan threatens Sound by J.W. Turner
10/18/06   Port Townsend              "The Leader"   Navy may oppose pit-to-pier
9/28/06   HCC News letter   Jefferson County issued a Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance
8/18/06   Port Townsend Leader web site   Read interesting comments by FHM and HCC
8/10/06   Environmental News   Read article on Maury Island pit to pier court cases
7/11/06   HCC Update   Commissioners decided not to amend the county code to allow 24-hour mining operations.
6/2/06   Kitsap-Sun Editorial   Industrialization Has Potential Environmental Perils for Canal
5/30/06   Press release   Realtors® Oppose Industrialization of Hood Canal
03/06   John Fabian Letter   Letter to the Jefferson County Commissioners. regarding SEPA as Lead Agency.
12/05   Sierra Club Newsletter   Hood Canal In Peril - Seirra Club Nov/Dec Newsletter
07/07/05   HCC response   Letter to Al Scalf of the request by FHM for a new MDNS to mine the Whal Lake area.
05/2005   new sections to chapter 90.-- RCW   Relating to establishing a management program for Hood Canal rehabilitation
05/12/05   Al Scalf memo 5/12/05   Jefferson County has now issued a Determination of Significance  
12/15/04   Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society   Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society, on behalf of its 500 members, sent the Hood Canal Coalition a letter opposing the Fred Hill Materials pit-to-pier project
9/19/04   Bremerton Sun   OUR VIEWS - A first step to saving Hood Canal
8/04   Rock Products   Commissioners' approval of a 690 acre mining district for Fred Hill Materials
7/01/04   Bremerton Sun   The Bremerton Sun article on the commissioners approval of the MRL
6/30/04   MRL Decision   Commissioners approve MRL
6/28/04   The Daily Herald   Snohomish County temporarily shuts down a gravel pit near Gold Bar that residents say is ruining their water supply
6/28/04   Sierra Club Press Release   Full text of the Sierra Clubs press release
6/27/04   Letter to Commissioner   Text of letter sent to Commissioner Titterness
6/11/04   Peninsula Daily News   Now it's up to county commissioners to decide
6/10/04   Port Townsend Leader  

This from the PT Leader Home Page, June 10th

6/09/04   PSAT Comments   Puget Sound Action Team written comments to the commissioners
6/06/04   Washington Public Interest Research Group   WPIRG letter to the Jefferson County Commissioners
5/26/04   Bremerton Sun   Angry crowd forces meeting postponement
5/2/04   Bremerton Sun   Bob Dietz's (COMMUNITY COLUMNIST) latest article in opposition to the Fred Hill Materials "Pit to Pier" project.
4/27/04   Van De Wege Opposes Pit to Pier  

Read the news release that highlights the decision of Kevin Van De Wege and his opposition to the Fred Hill Materials "Pit to Pier" project

4/24/04   Resolution adopted   Read entire resolution adopted by the Democrats in Jefferson and Clallam Counties in opposition to the Hood Canal pit to pier project at their party conventions on Saturday.
3/30/04   State Democratic Hqts   Message to the WA Democratic party   from John Fabian of the Hood Canal Coalition
3/30/04   Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe   Correspondence with Governor Locke
3/08/04   Peninsula Daily News   Jefferson: County issues revised Fred Hill gravel mining report
3/04/04   North Kitsap Herald   Still not taking a Shine to plan
2/20/04   Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe   Correspondence with Governor Locke, Commissioners Huntingford, Titterness, and Rodgers
2/06/04   Maria Cantwell E-Mail   she will continue to carefully monitor this situation and take our views into consideration as this process moves forward
1/27/04   Port Townsend Leader   Norm Dicks opposes pit-to-pier project - Tour of Shine Pit fails to dissuade him of bridge, environmental concerns
1/25/04   Bremerton Sun   Bob Dietz's (COMMUNITY COLUMNIST) on "Let's work together to preserve Hood Canal"
1/20/04   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Air pollution from cargo ships stirs growing concern
1/18/04   Bremerton Sun   Bob Dietz's (COMMUNITY COLUMNIST) on how the   "Pit-to-pier plan threatens Hood Canal's health".
    The Hood Canal Environmental Council   a member of the Hood Canal Coalition, issued a statement from its Board of Directors in their latest newsletter.  This statement relates to tactics used by proponents of the pit to pier project.
12/31/03
 
  Tacoma News Tribune   about the environmental risks of the pit-to-pier project. "Hood Canal's pier of peril."
4/4/07   Port Townsend Leader   FHM pushed bills to make point on pit-to-pier process
4/4/07   Seattle PI   We have to 'tell the truth' to save orcas and Puget
Sound

Date of last update
 07/24/2008

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