County Council’s Special Committee of the Whole Meeting held Tuesday morning, July 10, 2018 – by Mike Curtiss for CTNW Whatcom County Council members continued their discussion of preliminary draft comprehensive plan and zoning code amendments for Cherry Point during their Special Committee of the Whole on Tuesday morning, July 10. For the last 4 meetings, council members have been …
Citizen Journalist – WC Council Meeting and Planning Unit Meeting for July 10, 2018
Whatcom County Council Evening Meeting, Tuesday, 7/10/2018. Whatcom County Council meeting had some ominous business, normal politics, and some enjoyable, humorous moments. The ominous is the anti-growth anti-Cherry Point crowd, directed by the leadership within RE Sources and their apparent control of five of the WC Councilpersons. They have been working on the Cherry Point Urban Growth Areas (UGA) Comprehensive …
County Council Continues Discussion on Regulations to Cherry Point With Moratorium That Will Restrict Growth and Jobs
The Whatcom County Council continued their discussion of a “temporary” Cherry Point permit moratorium during its Special Committee of the Whole meeting, on June 19th. Councilmembers had asked staff to prepare Comp Plan amendments in an effort to write regulations that would interrupt Cherry Point-based industries to expand business growth and avoid a lawsuit for Whatcom County. Some ideas Council …
Whatcom County Council Studys How to Prevent Increased Train Oil Car Traffic. Will They Spend More to Study How to Prevent Increased Pipeline Traffic and Processing at Cherry Point, Too?
In 2016 the Whatcom County Council passed a moratorium on permitting for new projects related to fossil fuels in the Cherry Point Industrial Zone. At the same time the Council also approved spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a study to stop the expansion (growth) or exports of fossil fuels from these facilities, too. The focus of that study was …
Citizen Journalism Report: Whatcom County Council Meeting Apr. 10, 2018
Last Tuesday, April 10th, 2017, Whatcom County Council addressed and acquiesced to taking public comments on the contentious moratorium placed on Cherry Point Industrial businesses back in September of 2016. This report on the meeting has been provided for public released to CTNW for our Citizen Journalism reporting, courtesy of the Whatcom Business Alliance. Temporary, Cherry Point Moratorium Could Remain in …
Citizen Journalist Report: WC Public Utilities District Meeting 3/27/2018
Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:33 AM Subject: 3/27 Whatcom County Public Utilities Dept. (PUD) Meeting In comment period, WC PUD was asked why they have not supported their customers, Cherry Point Industries, who they serve with process water and one Refinery with electricity, also? This is their business and income and the WC PUD has been absent from …