EPIC, Humboldt Baykeeper, and Northcoast Environmental Center Vow to Fight Trump Administration’s Plan for Offshore Drilling

Epic Northcoast Environmental Center, Humboldt BaykeeperJoint press release from three North Coast Conservation Organizations:

On Thursday, the Trump administration announced that it would open offshore oil drilling for nearly all continental waters in the United States, including here along our North Coast. Trump will have to go through us first. Our organizations, the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), Humboldt Baykeeper, and the Northcoast Environmental Center, pledge that we will do everything in our power to fight offshore oil and gas development in Northern California.

President Trump’s reckless plan threatens our coast, our economy, and our way of life. We will defend our coast because we cannot suffer the same fate as Santa Barbara in 1969, Port Angeles in 1985, Grays Harbor in 1988, Coos Bay in 1999, and the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. We will not allow offshore drilling because we must move to a post-carbon economy. We will stand with our fishermen and oyster farmers who rely on clean water and a healthy environment.

We stopped President Reagan’s attempts to drill off the North Coast in the 1980s. We will stop President Trump too.

Tom Wheeler, Environmental Protection Information Center

Jen Kalt, Humboldt Baykeeper

Larry Glass, Northcoast Environmental Center

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Life is Good
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Life is Good
6 years ago

Good luck with that snowflakes.

For Real
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For Real
6 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

They don’t need luck. They always win.

Fidlin the ganjo
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Fidlin the ganjo
6 years ago
Reply to  For Real

The same way hillary won the election? [edit]

Aaron
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Aaron
6 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

You must be one ofe the hopefuls that believe Humboldt isnt owned and paid for by marijuana. Maybe you believe logging is making a comeback. The word snowflake is played out and most republicans opt out of using it anymore,,, for fears of being directly associated with a man who doesnt possess the cognitive ability to do his job. Sessions is setting up Trump to go down with his soldiers …and the GOP will lose the battle on a hill full of weed.

DELUSIONAL LIBERAL
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DELUSIONAL LIBERAL
6 years ago
Reply to  Aaron

Gypsy Rose
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Gypsy Rose
6 years ago

You get them sweetheart. We need to stop all drilling for oil and gas. And, Life is good what does snowflakes refer to? I’m not up to all the lingo you young ones use. Inquiring minds need to know.

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!!!
6 years ago

oh look, its a clever overstated unoriginal insult! yay!

Thanks for the shout out, to the folks, willing to preserve what’s left of this beautiful cty! I will be donating as much funds as I can to these organizations! When you need it, I’ll be there to stop, block, resist, & overcome u Chumps, so willing to bend over for a quick cheap buck!

De cu
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De cu
6 years ago
Reply to  !!!

Remember to pay twice as much in income taxes too since you were probably against tax cuts !

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6 years ago
Reply to  De cu

That’s the dumbest reply ever. Lmao! Who do I pay these extra taxes too? Chump cut them, so why would I send double taxes? Do you mean donate the extra $ not paid out to taxes because the cuts? Sure, great suggestion. I will donate my extra $ to organizations in need. Thanks for the suggestion on where to get some extra funds from. Here I was recycling cans, little did I realize I can use the tax cut, to fight the environment haters! Thanks!

ROW ROW
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ROW ROW
6 years ago

“Trump will have to go through us first ”

yeah i dont think you guys are as high on the totem pole as you think

gypsy rose ; not a fan of energy independence huh ?

Liberal hypocrisy
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Liberal hypocrisy
6 years ago
Reply to  ROW ROW

“Larry Glass” he couldn’t even stand up to Arkley at a dinner party! What a useless oxygen sucker…

hmm
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hmm
6 years ago
Reply to  ROW ROW

You feel for the energy independence propganda? There’s one born everyday.

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago

IT WILL TAKE A LOT OF MONEY TO HALT DRILLING. YOUR STATE IS FLAT BROKE, SO ARE YOUR COUNTIES. MONEY TALKS BULL$HIT WALKS. DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU WILL WIN THAT WAR? SANTA BARBARA HAD LOTS OF MONEY, DID THEY WIN? TIME TO GET A GRIP ON YOUR DEMISE, ITS YOUR TURN NOW. FIGHT HARD IT WILL JUST LEAVE YOU WITH LESS. IT COSTS A FORTUNE TO BE AN ELITE PROGRESSIVE. MAYBE THE EPA CAN HELP YOU. YOU WILL GO AGAINST THE RICHEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD PLUS THE FEDS. SO STAND UP AN WAVE THAT FLAG.

Lazydaze
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Lazydaze
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

You’re right. we should all just roll over and allow the pollution and exploitation of our coastal line and ocean without even trying to protect what we value so dearly. We can always just go get another one once they’re destroyed. Oh wait.

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago
Reply to  Lazydaze

LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THE LAND ALREADY, FILLED IT FULL OF POISON, ERODED EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TOUCHED, AN YOU HAVE THE GALL TO GET ON HERE AN SAY THAT SOMEBODY YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IS GOING TO DO A BETTER JOB OF SCREWING UP THE ENVIROMENT THAN YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE. WOW YOU GOT TALENT!

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!!!
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

WHAT?

Truthy
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6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think everyone who reads this is logging, or mining? Not everyone opposed to offshore drilling is as hypocritical as you think. And why are you always yelling?

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago
Reply to  Truthy

YOU DID READ IT THEN, YOU HAD NO TROUBLE READING THE PRINT. MY ADVICE IS IF IT BOTHERS YOU THAT MUCH, YOU SHOULD WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN A LETTER ABOUT HOW THE CAPITOL LETTERS ARE POISONING YOUR WATER SUPPLY. AND YOU WONT HAVE NONE OF IT.

Drone pollinators inc.
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Drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

That is so spot on. Fully agree. You commented for me.

Scooter
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Scooter
6 years ago
Reply to  HOGRANCH

Uh, California will finish 2018 with 19 billion in reserves. California is not broke.

Liberal hypocrisy
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Liberal hypocrisy
6 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

Why don’t you put a little rum in that Kool Aid you’re drinking

THC
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THC
6 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

https://www.google.com/amp/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/09/25/california-pension-reform-calpers/amp/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/the-top-10-most-indebted-states-in-the-us.html

Lol, That’s like someone with a million dallor mortgage, five maxed out credit cards and a fully financed, 80 thousand dollar car thinking they have a surplus at the end of the month cuz they have a hundred bucks left over after making all their minimum interest payments. Grape is my favorite. Wait is that racist?

shak
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shak
6 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

There are even cam recorded drives through homeless camps to prove that point. My favorite was the bike ride through Anaheim that showed the richness of Calif for miles upon miles.
The average worker earns $12-15 bucks per hour. The average Calif politician earns what per hour? Who pays that wage? What is the literal wage the average worker earns after the politician is paid? How are politicians paid? How many different things are taxed, fee’d, fined, etc, in order to meet the politician’s wage and benefits? What is the literal earning of the average worker after the politicians are accounted for?

How many politicians became ultra millionaires? How many average citizens did?
How many politicians live in mansions? How many live in homeless camps like the average working bear?

Mike
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Mike
6 years ago

Californias political pissing contest with the federal government is only helping the politicians involved and hurting the taxpayers. Example, sanctuary state and ice, pot and sessions now offshore drilling. Neither side is making the world a better place, they are just insuring more jobs for cops and lawyers. Which the taxpayers pay for both because you can bet Trump and Brown aren’t paying for any of the expenses they are causing so they can look good on the news.

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

YOU ARE SO RIGHT, MIKE CA. WILL BE A WAR ZONE.

Truthy
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6 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Less offshore oil drilling would make the world a better place.

Mike
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Mike
6 years ago
Reply to  Truthy

So would forced sterilization of the entire human species, but you missed the point entirely. Polarization of the left and right in politics to the point where your emotions trump (no pun intended) logic and reasoning accomplish nothing. In elementary school they try to teach you the meaning of democracy governing, well in today’s times they might as well skip that course.

DELUSIONAL LIBERAL
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DELUSIONAL LIBERAL
6 years ago

Yea where is EPIC on the environment for toxins at pot grows they collapsed the timber industry now they can’t be found anywhere pot toxins are discovered.

Maybe, just maybe...
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Maybe, just maybe...
6 years ago

YA SRSLY WTF OTHER THAN ALL THE STUFF THEY HAVE SAID AGAINST DOPE POLLUTORZ U R RIGHT THEY R’NT 24/7 LIKE YOU, [edit]. ASK UR SUPERVISORS WHY THEY REDUCED RIPARIAN BUFFERS IN HUMBOLDT[edit]. ALL 5 OF THEM DESPITE PROTESTS WHERE WERE U EPIC WAS THERE. ASK UR SUPERVISORS WHY THEY REZONE OPEN SPACE 4 DEVELOPMENT[edit]. WHERE WERE U, EPIC WUZ THERE.

Liberal hypocrisy
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Liberal hypocrisy
6 years ago

Come on man you’re not texting on a flip phone, use real sentences and real words if you want to get taken seriously! Oh wait maybe you are, LOL!

HOGRANCH
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HOGRANCH
6 years ago

TRY FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER, THEY WILL GLADLY TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE POISONS AN TOXINS, HOW THE WATER TEMP HAS COME UP 3 DEGREES IN FEEDER STREAMS FULL OF NITRATES AN OTHER GREAT FERTILIZERS.

Truthy
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6 years ago

Fake fuckin news. EPIC is opposed to industrial pot growing. It’s the county that is promoting it. We need new supervisors.

Drone pollinators inc.
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Drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago
Reply to  Truthy

My relative works fo DFG that is not fake news.

Trumpelstiltskin
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Trumpelstiltskin
6 years ago

What I’d like to know, is if you had a 680 acre pot farm, permits in place, all environmental compliance done, greenhouses all set up, with water storage and all, why would you be selling out for 2.6 million? Couldn’t you make this much every year, with your 2000 plants?

Who cares if they drill for oil, as long as they build some roads, expand charging for electrics, and set up Hydrogen fuel stations too…

Face it, humans are not going to stop until this planet is an empty stone.

Scooter
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Scooter
6 years ago

When you use the term “envirowacks” you out yourself as a contard.

jeffersonian
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jeffersonian
6 years ago

now there are three worthless organizations. they apparently dont care if marijuana farms are destroying the fish runs in the entire eel river system and poisoning the drinking water in the trinity river or that their bay trail destroys vital shoreline habitat or that their no logging policy in national forests aids horrendous wildfires and contributes to the premature harvesting of privately owned timber. in this area, there is not enough oil and natural gas to induce a co. to drill offshore. and, ironically, they all drive gas cars that use the oil that comes from the north slope alaska and socal. they have no sense of balance. there are adequate safeguards in place, and they are improving methods continually. in short, their stance is obstructionist and hypocritical.

Nobrainnoheadache
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Nobrainnoheadache
6 years ago

Go after all the dip shits dumping chemicals in the rivers from grows. Oh wait that’s to hard and doesn’t get as much political attention.

Gypsy Rose
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Gypsy Rose
6 years ago

I still want to know what Snowflakes are.

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!!!
6 years ago
Reply to  Gypsy Rose

unique individuals, where no 2 are the same!

shak
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shak
6 years ago
Reply to  Gypsy Rose

Fluffy pieces of near frozen water that melt when exposed to the warmth of light.

shak
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shak
6 years ago

What innovative improvements have been made since 1969?
What countries have America become dependent on since 1969?

Were the newly requested studies ever completed, using the points of new innovation of safeguards?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-25/trump-said-to-order-review-of-oil-drilling-off-california-coast

Are the opposers using old material and opinion based off the years of old, or are they up to date and debating fact instead of hysteria?

We don’t need spin doctors running the world, we need real doctors.
Spin doctors spin opinions into narratives that sound like facts, in order to deceive. Those who benefit off the spun narrative use that for all their political moves for their profit agenda.
Without profit, they all fold and the people/citizens profit instead. The “our” term is replaced with “their”.

shak
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shak
6 years ago
Reply to  shak

Here’s an example of “experts” running a narrative that Congress and Media approve of for their own click bait talking points. All based on opinion, not facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGTbT0R_Qk

A funner and fuller rundown of the above video that exposes lies and deception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xD4gJOnsp4

Gypsy Rose
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Gypsy Rose
6 years ago

Ohhhhh. I know what snowflakes are, I just couldn’t make the connection until I read the article again. Thank you folks for helping me. All of you have a good, good year

Susy Barsotti
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Susy Barsotti
6 years ago
Reply to  Gypsy Rose

You are adorable!

I was just reading that the current Chinese term is ‘white lotus’, instead of ‘snowflake’. Sounds nicer, somehow…

You have a good, good year, too.

Gypsy Rose
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Gypsy Rose
6 years ago

Thank you Susy. I’d make a heart but I don’t know how, so just pretend you see one.

Common Sense
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Common Sense
6 years ago

Why is this a bad thing? How will this harm our coast line? How will it NOT help the economy. I want educated answers not anti-Trump answers

Fidlin the ganjo
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Fidlin the ganjo
6 years ago

We will drill and there will be oil spilt onto your beaches. Suck it up!
You snowflakes can all volunteer cleaning up the next spill and show us your dedication.
There will be oil! Its best for America and the economy!