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This 28-page booklet provides a close-to-comprehensive overview of false solutions to climate change. Fifteen concise articles—complete with photos and illustrations—cover more than 20 false solutions to climate change, from Clean Coal to Biomass incineration, providing an easy-to-read introduction to the ever expanding market place of climate crisis techno-fixes.  CLICK on the following link to download/read.

False Solutions To Climate Change – 2d ed.

With the incredible pace of the climate policy debate, the 2nd edition provides key updates to crucial topics like REDD (a major new commodification of forests and lands), which was just emerging at the time of initial publication.

After The Gold Rush

Equally important, the booklet expands to more technologies that are being branded as “green” despite the grave dangers associated with them, such as waste incineration, biochar, and genetically engineered “carbon sucking” trees. We’ve also included much more information on real solutions and positive steps communities can we can take to stop the climate crisis.

The booklet includes contributions from ETC Group, the Indigenous Environmental Network, Movement Generation, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, and International Rivers as well as art and photography from across the movement for climate justice.

USA TODAY examines the impact of air pollution outside the nation’s schools and explores how toxic chemicals shuttered one elementary school in Addyston, Ohio, three years ago. Medical Experts investigate the long term injury to children’s development, health, and ability to learn.  Note how journalists discover government agencies aren’t monitoring. (Part 1)

USA TODAY takes a snapshot of air quality outside of almost 100 schools around the nation. Its findings, experts say, should prompt the government to take a harder look.  The implications for Shelton school children are grave.  Unfortunately, most of the officials concerned parents are urged to contact in this clip (school, EPA, county) have ignored the pleas of local residents objecting to the proposed plants expected to emit just such toxins.     (Part 2)
USA Today journalists Blake Morrison and Brad Heath discuss research methods for their Grantham Prize Winning story “The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools”. The greater vulnerability of children is discussed and, shockingly, the current harm done. Video courtesy of the Journalism Center on Children & Families

http://www.journalismcenter.org

Bless the Beasts and the Children…they have no choice, they have no voice – Karen Carpenter

Intel Thumbs Its Nose — Like Adage, Simpson, Tim Sheldon, and Jay Hupp, Intel (another wealthy corporation) thumbs its nose at Corrales residents complaining about the toxic emissions.  However, the locals seem willing to cast the toxic burden onto others not in the immediate vicinity just as some Mason County residents are.  This ‘Devil take the hindmost’ approach is counter productive and plays into the strategy of these monstrously huge corporations intent on dividing citizens while the companies destroy the environment AND the community!

Visit the following link for insight on recent medical evidence of how wood smoke kills and the grave risk sub 2.5 micron particles along with other toxins  present to the most vulnerable, especially children:

How Wood Smoke Kills

Toxins/Poisons not listed by ORCAA, Adage, and Simpson include radioactive Cesium, Mercury, Dioxins, and sulfur dioxide.  Some that ARE listed include fine particles (2.5 microns and less) that will amount to tens of tons annually suspended in the air column for long durations and difficult if not impossible to remove from the emissions stream.

Dioxin – Mercury – Cesium The amount of radioactive Cesium that will be discharged amounts to 100X the maximum allowed from existing nuclear plants.  Yet it doesn’t appear on any permit applications for the pending BioMassacre and ORCAA has not implemented any monitoring/detection methods.

Wood ash is highly radioactive with Cesium & Strontium from atmospheric nuclear tests.

ORCAA admits no sensors will be installed at the stack for monitoring Dioxins despite the dissembling to the public  on the anticipated amounts by profiteers such as Eric Hanswen, principal at Envviron, an environmental consulting company employed by Simpson timber company.  (“Our calculations right now are showing .000005 pounds per year [of dioxin released], said Eric Hansen at a public information meeting held by Shelton City officials to answer questions about a proposed bioincinerator to be placed in downtown Shelton on 9-23-10).  That’s about 6 – 7 orders of magnitude lower than that hazarded by an ORCAA engineer.  When contacted for a verifiable source of such data, an Environ employee could not provide it.  An inconvenient truth was again hidden from the view of residents.

Debunking Waste to Energy – Cesium, Mercury, Toxins and Development

Dioxin Impact Reassessed

BioMassacre Resistance in Michigan

Health Effects from Burning BioMass and Coal

No Monitoring for Mercury, Arsenic, Chromium, Dioxin, Cesium

WI Sierra Club Makes Pact With the Devil

Mercury Content in Wood Smoke

Smoke Source Differentiation Analysis & Hg Content

BioMass CO2 Neutrality Canard Exposed

Wood Smoke produces from 10 to 167 milligrams of highly carcinogenic dioxins per kilogram of fuel burning (Abelson). Wood burning is responsible for about 3 percent of the total suspended particulates, 6 percent of the total carbon monoxide, and 51 percent of the highly carcinogenic polycyclic organic matter produced by all US sources (EPA, 1986).  Simple calculations reveal that’s on the order of 10,724 pounds (5.36 tons) to 179,091 pounds (89.5 tons) per year of dioxin.  Adage (ignoring Simpson for the moment) alleges they will be emitting a ‘mere’ 97 tons/yr of PM2.5, 98 tons/yr of PM10, and 100 tons/yr of PM.  That’s roughly 300 tons/yr of various PM particulates.

Even giving Adage (and by implication, Simpson) the benefit of the doubt by reducing my calculations proportionately still shows Adage and Simpson reps are gulling the public and our regulatory agencies.  e.g.  5.3 pounds/yr to 89 pounds/yr of dioxin assuming the self serving rose colored  figures submitted by these companies were even distantly realistic based on their own numbers of particulates to be released.

That’s not to say, in truth, that far (by orders of magnitude) greater amounts of dioxin would not be released.  I’m simply giving the most charitable analysis based on the assumption the dioxins would be attached to the particles released into the air.  It’s entirely possible the dioxins could be released as vapors INDEPENDENTLY from attachment to the surface area (very extensive!) of the particles (PM) themselves.

In any event, Mr. Eric Hansen’s representation to the public stating, “Our calculations, right now, (how about tomorrow?) are showing .000005 pounds per year (of dioxin released)”, cannot be relied on because it was a crass attempt to dissemble to and mollify the public.  If these companies are willing to be so disingenuous on such a critical and dangerous poison, why would they tell the truth about ANY representation they make?  And why are our city/county/port officials choosing to believe them without verification or any plans to monitor these toxins (e.g. Dioxin, mercury, cesium, strontium, arsenic) at all?

The dirty truth is even without these exorbitantly deadly compounds, the PM emissions themselves are guaranteed to harm public health, shorten lifespans, inflict suffering, and visit chronic diseases on residents.  Medical experts have repeatedly warned there is NO ‘safe’ level of PM exposure.  The more you breathe, the shorter your life expectancy–a similar mechanism to smoking cigarettes.  But we can choose not to smoke.  We can’t choose not to breathe what’s being crammed down our throats.

604,000 Tons/yr - Adage

Iowa Residents Discuss Biomassacre

Oregon’s Wood Smoke Warning

BioMass Emissions Table & HCN (cyanide)

Why BioMass Pyrolysis isn’t Green

BioMass Toxins Table & Cyanide

Please have your children (and you) view the following video.  It’s well worth the couple of minutes to see.

Click the following for the latest BioMass newsletter including a lawsuit filed against the Port of Shelton by Concerned Citizens Of Mason County opposed to the BioMassacre:

Biomass Busters News

I’m listing all the shots in Jay Hupp’s slide show presented circa 2006, a classic example of premeditated permitting, to go along with a video of his exultant lecture during the presentation which can be found at the following link:

Jay Hupp’s self immolation and premeditated permitting

You can follow along by playing the youtube (above) clip in one table to listen to Jay unwittingly concede the inferiority of BioMassacre as a virtual caveman technology adverse to people and the environment while scrolling to the images here he’s referencing.

Coastal Bio-Energy Forum:

Sharing experience and exploring the future of bio-energy in the coastal region. (But Hupp concedes he knows very little about biomass to energy or biomass to anything!) Jay Hupp, Business Development Services University of Washington, Olympic Natural Resources Center, Forks, WA April 4, 2006

“If you can imagine trying to catch a hog fuel truck in front of a sub-station, that’s not easy!” -Jay Hupp-  (no, but he’s pretty glib for a guy who admits he’s not an expert on anything to do with biomass incineration.)  “My name is Jay Hupp, and I’m in the business of helping businesses to develop”      -JH-

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“I’m absolutely not an expert on biomass to energy or biomass to anything.” -J. Hupp-

Jay admits doing a feasibility study for BioMassacre as far back as early 2005.  He admits there were a number of problems including regulations which he later brags were eliminated with the help of his good buddy, Tim Sheldon.

“We ran into a difficulty with the availability of cooling water….where it becomes a big deal is when you run into water rights issues. The water is there. Can you get your hands on it. That’s the question!” -J. Hupp-

“Other things that come into concern, we talked about the water, fuel availability and alternative fuels…co-firing a facility where it’s desirable or necessary to have.”                 -JayHupp-

Here we see the forest soil is already sorely stressed after a typical clearcut.  Jay and his cohorts propose stripping even this scant remainder.  Having robbed the baby of its clothing, they now want to strip it of its undergarments, bankrupting forest soils, biodiversity, stream and water protection in the process.  They refer to this highly necessary organic material as if it were garbage, a nuisance.

“What’s the opportunity, how do you get to the opportunity, and what happens when you get there?  What kind of risk do you run into if you decide to get there?” -JH-

Alternative Fuels? “I want to make sure we’re all on the same track.  The biomass that surrounds all of us, the logging slash–unorganized, land clearing activity, land clearing DEBRIS, construction/yard waste, URBAN WASTE…” -JH-

“…residuals out of mills, sawdust, bark, shavings, and the intentionally ground biomass that comes from larger otherwise less usable forms of wood.” -JH-

“Now the opportunities have been there for a long time.  ” -JH-  (Here Hupp refers to the many other uses forest products are put to other than the torch, e.g. paper, pulp, bedding, landscaping, particle/chip board, insulation, flooring, etc. without even mentioning the myriad forest based cottage industries such as wreaths, mushrooms, tourism, recreation, value to the environment and humanity itself.)  “You like that?” -JH-

If the buffalo herds still roamed the prairies today, Jay would be foremost among those slaughtering them.

“The next level (future) will be the gasification of wood.” -JH

“This is *my* idea, and I’m not an engineer, of how a co-generation (incinerator) facility ought to work.” -JH-

Get Our Hands On It? “We ran into a difficulty with the availability of cooling water….in the past it has not been a big deal.  Where it becomes a big deal is when you run into water rights issues. The water is there. Can you get your hands on it. That’s the question!” -J. Hupp-

“Other things that come into concern, we talked about the water, fuel availability and alternative fuels…co-firing a facility where it’s desirable or necessary to have.” -JH-

Consumption of Biomass?

“Some of these operate with the opportunity to use alternative fuel in case you lose your primary source of fuel to keep the generator turning which makes Rick happy. It’s wise, if you have a large load consideration, to have some way to drive that generator other than your primary source of fuel. As we look across the country, historically, a number of them are gathering rust today that were good facilities 10 or 15 years ago.” -J. Hupp-

“In most cases, it is the source of fuel that has dried up, changed, or the cost of fuel has become such that it no longer makes it economically wise to run the facility. We stand here and say, water?, it’s out there. Biomass?, it’s out there. But when you make an investment…there are subjects that need to be looked into…that may not be obvious. Permitting costs? Obviously we can permit them because we have them operating all over western Washington.” -J. Hupp-

Premeditated Permitting?

“But that is not an easy subject. It’s not an inexpensive subject either. One of the other things that we ran into with a look into Mason County, there was a restriction on the height for buildings of 36 feet. Well that incinerator down at Sierra Pacific is over 100 feet high. And we looked at that and said, How does this fit? So I got together with Tim (Sheldon) and we changed the regulation. Right? So now we no longer have a 36 ft. restriction in Mason Co.” -JH

Encouraging Other officials to follow suit:

“But what’s the restriction in your county? You know, those kinds of things.” -JH-

“The location to the grid, the proximity to the fuel source is critical. It’s particularly critical when you begin to look at alternative fuel sources or co-firing fuel sources. Are you close enough to get it?   What’s the transportation cost factor if you have to haul it in? What if you want to increase generating capacity?…Logs are getting expensive. All that hog fuel generated by the mill may not be sufficient to generate where you want to go. It’s important to look at alternative sources.”

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Fuel Supply?

“The Risks? There’s 2 gorillas in the room, 1, a 900# gorilla and 1, a 600# gorilla. The 900# gorilla if you look at the big picture and the history of biomass, the 900# gorilla is the fuel source. It’s not only the availability of the source itself, it’s the nature of the source and it’s the cost of the source. So we’re in a very dangerous position here if it looks like fuel is not a problem. Take the time, the effort, and the energy to make sure it’s not a problem. Don’t just assume.” -JH

Jay never mentions or considers the costs to people, their health, the environment, or their consent.  He’s utterly singular and rapacious in his thinking while conceding such issues only as obstacles to be overcome.

“The 600# gorilla in the room is the regulatory environment, which is a kind of unpredictable animal. As we all know, unexpected regulatory changes happen that cause a devastating impact on a facility of this nature.” -Jay Hupp-

Click HERE for The Story Of Stuff

Click HERE for The Story Of Cap And Trade

Click HERE for a docudrama about the BioMassacre crisis in Shelton

Click HERE to see Adage reps dissemble from their fair booth in 2010

Click the following link to see:

Gregoire’s Perfidy – The Politics of Poison

https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/?p=252

Chief Seattle’s letter can be found at the end.

Click on the following two links to see more details about a candidate (NANCY WILLIAMS) running for 35th District Senate who opposes the BioMassacre promoted by Jay Hupp and Tim Sheldon.  She also opposes corporate welfare which is bankrupting the public and further impoverishing our most vulnerable citizens.

https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/?p=134

https://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/?p=5

Most importantly, attend rallies and meetings, talk to all your neighbors about this issue and the impact it will have on them.  Encourage everyone not to ‘sell’ their children, but to come up with novel/creative ideas for protesting against this travesty.  Take every opportunity to educate others and do not dismiss anyone as ‘unreachable’ when it comes to the effort to enlighten everyone.

Notice Jay Hupp is not preaching about actually protecting air and water quality, only about regulations that might impact industry in the course of defending these vital resources.

The following 2 links are interviews of Vermont low income residents forced to live beside a 50MW bioincinerator:

http://www.youtube.com/user/deadlybiomass#p/a/u/2/iREYS12Gy_o

http://www.youtube.com/user/deadlybiomass#p/a/u/1/i-X_2YVJiu8

Elected to protect and to serve, how could a Governor reputed to be a liberal bastion of the people sell them so cheaply?

In fact, the enabling legislation kicking off the gold rush on the forests of the pacific northwest was passed unanimously by our elected representatives in Olympia. How could so many fail so dismally to protect the public?

A combination of Federal $, poor tax revenue streams, payola scientists, and lazy/ignorant/greedy politicians has lead to citizens being force fed a toxic airborne stew over their heated objections by the very officials we elected to protect us, our families, our children, our communities and our future.  The tin ear those officials have developed is a measure of how far their arrogance has grown at our expense and the need for dramatic wholesale change starting at the top.

The additional pollution of the air we all breathe on top of currently inadequate air quality regulations due to legal fictions such as the ‘carbon neutrality’ of forest based bioincineration will have a devastating impact on our health and quality of life. Forest soils already stressed by current logging practices will be bankrupted by being strip mined of their last vestiges of organic matter and biodiversity.

No critically thinking citizen can accept the vacuous notion that burning northwest forests will improve the environment.  Nor should such activity be rewarded with carbon credits (cap & trade) which is leading the charge against the people in the region, and the environment itself…all shrouded in the disingenuous self serving propaganda of ‘jobs’ and wages.  Do we sell our children so easily?  The community, after due consideration and investigation has passionately denounced this scheme.  Yet the torches are being lit as we speak, threatening our homes, our lungs, our communities and our very lives.  Shockingly, some biomassacre PR types have suggested we deserve this conflagration because we’ve used wood burning stoves.  The opposite tact was taken by Adage representatives who suggested they should be permitted to set up operations here because our air quality was better than California’s. This is tantamount, in my mind, to suggesting we should allow them (in the latter instance) to sleep with our underage daughters because the girls are virgins…or (in the former instance) because they AREN’T!  I don’t know which brazen proposal engages the more deplorable logic.  I do know that it’s offensive and has met stout resistance from the people to be affected.  Still, our elected officials (with rare exceptions) are not standing in solidarity with the people.  In all this, they’re acting as handmaidens to the very industry seeking to extract, exploit, and devour the people.  Click Story Of Stuff to see how this works.

As to Simpson Timber Co. vs. Adage?…I know Simpson and their attitude toward the environment starting many years ago in the 70’s when en route to Washington State.  Congress was debating extending protection to more of the few remaining redwood trees in northern Calif. During the hearings and debates, Simpson (same owners, corporate culture, and arrogance) elected to cut every redwood tree they could get under a chain saw, reasoning once they’d been cut, not even Congress could save them.  The same company pillaged the forests in the ‘sustainable yield’ tract in Mason County so badly it destroyed the area stream beds, silted the rivers and creating the worst flooding problems the area had ever witnessed.

Simpson is the same company whose treatment of its workers, workplace safety, and their health was so cavalier one embittered crippled logger in a wheelchair who’d been discarded by the company gunned down Sol Reed, one of the owners, in front of the timber baron’s mansion in Shelton on June, 1930. The family soon retired from the area.

I’ve seen Simpson’s training film for new hires (prior to exhausting the most merchantable local timber) encouraging them to be aggressive in cutting forests while spooking them with images of ghost towns left from boom times.  This company’s emphasis has always been to invest in capital intensive technology to eliminate/reduce labor.  It is hostile to labor unions, the watershed, the air we breathe, and the environment in deference to it’s mantra: PROFIT!  A corporation (Simpson is no exception) is a virtual machine designed with one purpose:  To make money and shield its owners from accountability/liability.  If you cut a corporation, it does not bleed, it has no conscience or heart, it has no creed or remorse, no compassion or loyalty, no ethics or morality.  It does not worry about where it’s next meal will come from or struggle for breath.  It does not suffer.  And it will crush all who stand in its way as effortlessly as a tank.  Having no conscience, ethics, or morality, it effortlessly dissembles to the people, orchestrating their undoing while in its pursuit of profit.  That our public officials have bought into this cynical pandering reveals much about the demise of our democracy and the process itself.

Make no mistake, dioxins, sub-2.5 micron particulates, mercury, lead, arsenic, creosotes, benzofurans, watershed destruction, contamination of our bays & estuaries, depletion of our scarce public tax dollars, and excessive burdens on our public infrastructure will follow closely on the heels of these bioincinerators engulfing the northwest forests in the ensuing conflagration.  The political process is too inert and indolent to save many of us due to having fattened itself at the trough of political corruption and corporate influence, but paid for by the public through corporate welfare for wealthy companies such as Adage and Simpson.

How long must the people suffer?  How long must we endure? Click I’ve Endured to hear.

I’ve never been so proud of my neighbors who have fought so hard to realize the dream of Chief Seattle, to hold dear that which is more precious than gold, to celebrate life as it was meant to be.  For of all the words of man, or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!

Chief Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish Indians allegedly wrote to the American Government in the 1800’s – In this letter he gave the most profound understanding of God in all Things. Here is his letter, which should be instilled in the hearts and minds of every parent and child in all the Nations of the World:

CHIEF SEATTLE’S LETTER

The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.

We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to the same family.

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father.

The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

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One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted with talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is to say goodbye to the swift pony and then hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?

We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it, as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.

As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you.

One thing we know – there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all.

Port Commissioners Jay Hupp and Tom Wallitner deigned to censure Commissioner Jack Miles during this 09-21-10 meeting for his publicly posted criticism of Lt. Governor Brad Owens on a private blog run by a local resident.  Jack did this in his private capacity while identifying himself as a Port Commissioner who had committed himself to those he served, the public that elected him.

Commissioner/Chairman Jay Hupp elected to remove that effort from the meeting agenda (impromptu sua sponte without a motion) because, he opined, there’d been too much controversy surrounding the matter on the internet.

The meeting then devolved into acrimonious debate over the inaccuracy (or lack) of meeting minutes contrary to State law requiring the same.  Commissioners Jay Hupp and Tom Wallitner continue their pattern of steamrollering and insulting/bullying/intimidation of Commissioner Jack Miles.  Later, a citizen, for the record, officially notifies the Commissioners of their potential personal liability along with the Port’s for promoting, conspiring to, or allowing chemical trespass on private properties.  Jay Hupp challenges the relevance and is told the Commissioners are being notified for the record of exceeding the scope of their office and authority by promoting unlawful acts.  Still later, a City of Shelton planner jollies up the two egregious Commissioners and Port Staff regarding a submission he’s undertaken.  Click HERE for Video of dysfunctional Port meeting proceedings.

Fran reminds the Commissioners of their duty to represent the public’s concerns and interests, which they have not done, instead electing to project a hostile attitude toward the very community they serve.

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Fran Prescott originally rejected an invitation to meet and be photographed with Nancy Williams until she learned Nancy opposed the Adage and Simpson bioincinerators.  Fran then conceded she’d ‘reconsider’ her reluctance.

Rosalyn Reed, Democratic Chair in Mason County, had no difficulty greeting Nancy Williams and establishing common cause. Rosalyn’s husband’s health was destroyed and he suffers greatly due to the toxins he was exposed to from the Asarco smelter in Tacoma.

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Jack Miles (a Republican) enthusiastically greets Nancy Williams–he, an official, and she, a candidate, who criticize the tin ears our elected officials have developed.

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Nancy Williams (candidate for 35th District Senator running against Tim Sheldon) discusses a lawsuit filed against the Port of Shelton.

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Nancy and Jack review the seriousness of the allegations in the lawsuit against the Port of Shelton.

Not shown here is the recall petition effort against Commissioner Jay Hupp which is gathering steam.

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Nancy Williams and Jack Miles share a light moment.

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Nancy Williams (candidate for 35th District Senator running against Tim Sheldon) and Jack Miles agree that something must be done to protect residents against wealthy corporations like Adage and obstinate public officials such as Jay Hupp, Tom Wallitner, and Tim Sheldon.  A change is desperately needed, one that can’t be achieved by allowing the same officials to be re-elected.

Nancy Williams and Jack Miles exchange cards to stay in touch during this critical campaign.

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Nancy Williams and Jack Miles discuss strategy on how to best protect the public, our health, and our children from irresponsible elected officials, Adage, and Simpson.

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Nancy Williams, (candidate for 35th District Senator running against Tim Sheldon) who OPPOSES Adage and Simpson proposals to pollute our air along with corporate welfare, was in attendance, upon the invitation of yours truly, to witness how badly residents are treated by their elected officials while opposing this threat to their health and air quality.

Nancy Williams makes suggestions on how best to protect and serve the community.

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Local residents confer on the next steps in their effort to defeat Adage, Simpson, and Tim Sheldon’s attempt to compromise the welfare and health of the community.

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Local residents thank each other for attending the Port meeting in a show of solidarity for the community and Jack Miles.

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Nancy Williams (candidate for 35th District Senate running against Tim Sheldon), Rosalyn Reed (chair of Mason County Democrats), and Jack Miles (Port of Shelton Commissioner and a Republican) smile for the camera as they get acquainted and establish common cause in behalf of the community and their constituents.

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Nancy Williams and Rosalyn Reed exchange cards for future contact with each other in their effort to create change and make a difference.

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Nancy Williams (candidate for 35th District Senate) and Rosalyn Reed (Mason County Democrats chairwoman) exchange cards and discuss political strategy along with the issues at hand.

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Video footage was taken recording the continuing dispute over the accuracy of the minutes for Port meetings, but Jack Miles was easily steamrollered by the other two commissioners, as usual.

The Port Commissioners were publicly (on the record) notified they faced personal liability along with the Port itself for exceeding their authority by encouraging a tenant (Adage) to engage in chemical trespass upon surrounding private properties.  This eliminates any potential claim of their ‘acting in good faith’ or ignorance of the consequences.   But these are wealthy men who will be able to feed a small company of lawyers in mounting a defense.  However, they will NOT be entitled to the presumption of qualified immunity when they exceed the scope/authority of their public office or conspire to harm adjacent residents, their families, their children, and their private property.

See the following links to a Washington State Supreme Court decision on the legal implications surrounding chemical trespass and a successful suit against Kitsap County for the same:

104Wn2d677 (Bradley v. American Smelting – 1985)  The Washington Supreme Court rules permits are no defense against chemical trespass and defines the law surrounding the issue rationally and without equivocation.  This has been Shepardized by yours truly, revealing it remains good law.  The decision was unanimous without dissent.

136Wn2d567 (Kitsap County v. Allstate Insurance Co. – 1998)  After Kistap County is successfully sued for chemical trespass, it squabbles with its underwriters over who is going to pay the enormous bill.

Breath Soaring

Many are called.  Few are chosen  It’s not too late to take action to preserve ourselves, our future, and our children.  Some are undoubtedly discouraged by the treatment received at the hands of our elected officials.  Others have faltered in their courage, hoping to escape by planning their flight to distant ports.

But the problem is bigger than us in Mason County, bigger than even Washington State.  It is truly global and the process is broken everywhere at every level.

This is not the time to fail in our resolve.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Click HERE for a ray of Sun

Adage and those who believe our planet is limitless CAN be educated because our lives depend on doing so.  Some of us are old enough we wont be fated to see the extreme suffering that will be rendered if we fail.

Gaia's Caress

The Civil Rights movement succeeded because enough of our countrymen were sensitized to the desperate need of our brothers and sisters to be treated compassionately and as full citizens.  The conscience of America was pricked by images of fire hoses turned on the citizens of Birmingham while police dogs tore at their limbs.

Beach Sprites

The earth is moist, her remaining forests are green.  What clean air remains is as intoxicating as joy itself.  From her arms we sprang and to them we will return. In God’s own time, she will comfort us…if we let her.

I NEED HELP to create a Street Theater Production
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I believe the time has come for creative efforts to turn the tide against Adage, Simpson, and Tim Sheldon.
I want to create a Street Theater Production with the help and involvement of the community.  I can’t do it by myself.  Please get involved and help by assisting in the acquiring of some of the following items for the following bold public imagery:

Concept:
A street theater drama consisting of the Grim Reaper carrying a scythe pulling a miniature reproduction of a bio-incinerator behind including a belching smokestack labeled ‘ADAGE’ (on one side) and ‘SIMPSON’ on the other.  Emblems of the molecular Skull & Cross-bones will be attached to the top of the stack.

The Grim Reaper will be carrying a sign welcoming Adage and a ‘VOTE for Tim Sheldon’ sign.  Others accompanying the Grim Reaper will be dressed in ALL Black wearing breathing masks carrying ‘clean air’, ‘Vote for Nancy Williams’, and ‘No BioMassacre!/NO Adage’ signs.

Materials Needed:
A green 4-sided garden cart with substantial sizes rubber tires.  (I can provide this or will accept a loaner)

Cardboard or plywood of a type that can be assembled into a box shape covering the cart resembling a bio-incinerator building.

Paint and an artist who can decorated the box to look like a bio-incinerator buildingl

A plastic green/black/grey pipe of 8″-10″ diameter and about 5′ in length to be the ‘smokestack’ coming out of the top of the box.  (I can provide this)

A 12″ or larger diameter flat bottomed water-tight pan to insert the plastic pipe into through a tightly fit hole in the top of the box resembling a building.  Water will be placed in the pan and then dry ice.

Water.

Dry Ice. (I have no idea of where to obtain this locally)

A Grim Reaper robe w/Hood that will fit me along with a black mask to cover my face.  Someone with sewing skills could create this, but soon.  Black material will be needed and I would consider purchasing this if the robe fit me.  If anyone has suitable black material to donate, that would be fantastic.

1 large Scythe with body length snath,  (I have this)

Dark Glasses.  (I have this)

Workshop to assemble the rolling bio-incinerator replica.

Truck to transport replica.  (I have one)

The signs as described above.  I need Tim Sheldon campaign signs as well as some for Nancy Williams.  Bring your Clean-Air signs and any protesting against Adage, etc. too.

Cameras – Bring your cameras and encourage your friends to do likewise.  Take LOTS of photos/video and publish it on youtube, blogs, e-mail, and by any other means possible.

Street Play:
The Grim Reaper will tow the bio-incinerator replica with belching smokestack (properly lettered and full of dry ice for visual effect) in front of commissioner meetings, port district, and other large gathering accompanied by as many black clad sign toting masked victims as can be persuaded to accompany him.

It’s anticipated the dramatic image will gather photos and press coverage, hence the need for signs.

The street play will be highly mobile and transportable.  The Grim Reaper robe may be uncomfortable on warm days.  But the even should be fun and, I hope, effective.  The election is upon us.  This will be a valuable visual tool to help educate the electorate and our candidates.

Does anyone HAVE a black robe w/hood?…black graduation gown that would fit a 6’6″ man in shoes?

Please contact me by e-mail if you can help.  I can’t do this by myself.  pinbalwyz@yahoo.com