So Baykeeper, the organization that cannot even raise funds to afford its own office space in Eureka, and whose staff has made suing local businesses they disagree with a career and the same organization that furthers their agenda with the funds they settle with from extorting from businesses is now speaking for everyone in Humboldt.
I would like Baykeeper to explain how all the money they get by either filing a lawsuit or threatening it is spent.Improvements for the nature they claim to protect? Creating living wage jobs? Haven't seen any evidence of that. Or paying people who cant be employed in the private sector to be directors?
The Coastal Commission who made removal of billboards on 101 a condition for letting the Caltrans project move forward said the billboards obstructed the scenic view. So now deciding what I should view is classified as protecting the environment?
For all the jobs the Coastal Commission dictators have caused California to lose, I think anyone out of work should forward them unpaid bills.
These bureaucrats need to get a real job not one funded by taxpayers.
Good question John!
ReplyDeleteI have been wondering the same thing. The billboards don't bother me at all and if they can help some local businesses attract customers that is great. I don't really need to see any more but I can see the bay just fine.
But I agree these reporters need to be interviewing some other people.
When is Baykeeper and NEC going to look at some of the botched "restoration" projects with the same jaundiced eye?
Wow...haven't heard this stuff in a while! Must mean Baykeeper is doing its work of protecting the Bay from the short-sighted interests that put sacrificing quality of life for the blue vests of Walmart or Home Depot.
ReplyDeleteThe billboards are a blight on the landscape of this community that occupy lands that are a part of the public trust....the people's land. They should come down one way or the other and sensitive coastal habitat should be protected at all cost to protect the nearshore areas from the impacts of climate change...unless you think that is an impossibility as well. Kind of like when the 'enviros' warned the loggers in the '90's that they'd be out of work in 15 years because of their blind dedication to Hurwitz, PL and liquidation logging. We were wrong...it only took 10!
Good to see Baykeeper keeping up the good fight!
Pete nice to see you take time out from your important work to read my little blog.
ReplyDeleteAs former director of Baykeeper, you certainly did well suing here locally with the tired Walmart and Home Depot line.
In your self-righteous praise of Baykeeper, you avoided all the questions I asked. What part of the proceeds you exhorted locally went towards your salary?
Can you IMAGINE what our coastline would look like now if it wasn't for the Coastal Act?
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU California Coastal Commission!
Yes, Pete, tell us about how wonderful it is to have the Fisher Family using Humboldt County redwoods for their private bank with, what $8 million from the Fishers to block union worker rights just as they teamed up with Walmart to block Bangladesh and Cambodian garment sweatshop workers rights, the workers fired upon by Cambodian police and of course the huge fire disaster at the Bangladesh sweatshops. Thank you, Mr. Nichols for reminding us how great it is that Scotia is a ghost town, all the property shut down with profits going out of Humboldt County directly into Fisher Family bank accounts.
ReplyDeleteYou and your whole ilk, Mr. Nichols, are such anti-community selfish scammers that your Baykeeper days are as numbered as much as Hurlwitz's was. Nobody wants to pay you phony enviro types for screwing up Humboldt County large scale. Yes, PHONIES! With proof of such environmental myopia with your prior enviro ambulance chasers keeping back environmental protection from homestead eco-damage for 20 years in Humboldt County because egotists like you thought they could play environmental stewards with political agendas instead of environmental science. And you haven't learned a blessed thing yet, Mr. Nichols as your comments show us plainly.
Give back what your Baykeeper has taken in lawsuits to the people affected--not your salaries which should be volunteer anyway to keep you guys honest and not out for the bucks using environmental issues as cover for greed for money.