Yesterday, Earth First! Hung Banners Protesting HSU’s Relationship With Green Diamond and the Terra-Gen Wind Project
A protester stands with a sign protesting HSU involvement with Green Diamond logging. [Photo provided by Earth First!]
At 6:30 [yesterday] morning, numerous banners were hung over the US 101 in Arcata. The banners called attention to Humboldt State University’s (HSU) relationship to Green Diamond Resource Company and concerns over unsustainable logging in Humboldt County. The banners remained aloft for hours.
One banner, reads, “HSU CUT TIES WITH GREEN DIAMOND”. A Humboldt State student commented, “HSU’s relationship with Green Diamond supports the company’s destructive logging business. Despite HSU’s claims of sustainability, it has a financial relationship with a company that is directly contributing to the climate crisis and habitat loss.” The student continued, “Cutting ties with Green Diamond is more important now than ever because of the ecological catastrophe we are facing.”
“Green Diamond employees who are also HSU professors, teachers and students use toxic herbicides and clear cutting techniques in disguise, which are both widely known to be unsustainable and detrimental to habitat for plant and animal species. Green Diamond should not be allowed to train the next generation of foresters and conservation experts.”
Another banner, “Terra-Gen Wind is NOT Sustainable”, which denounced the contentious proposed wind farm on Monument and Bear River Ridges, was taken down immediately by Humboldt State University Police Department. The project was denied by the Humboldt County Planning Commission in response to a series of meetings packed with residents in opposition. The project threatens Wiyot sacred sites on Tsakiyuwit (Bear River Ridge) and will kill hundreds of birds and bats. The County Board of Supervisors will make the final decision at a public meeting on Monday, December 16th at 9amat Adorni center in Eureka.
The Wiyot tribe states on their petition against the Terra-Gen project, “This is one of the most diverse landscapes in North America, in part because it was shaped and tended by Indigenous peoples. The project will forever impact not just the spiritual connection of the Wiyot and other individuals, but the biology of this ecological transect and the species which depend on it.”
Along with the Wiyot Tribe, the Bear River Rancheria, Yurok Tribe, the Rio Dell City Council and Town of Scotia oppose the wind project.
“Cut ties with Green Diamond” demanded a banner hanging above Hwy 101 yesterday morning. [Photo provided by Earth First!]
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🕯🌳I think these people are getting confused. 🤯🎅☃️👍🏽
And what exactly do you think they are confused about?
The forestry department is absolutely infiltrated by the local timber industry. While some classes and instructors are teaching science based forestry, that is not at all the case department wide.
“Green” Diamonds tree farming practices are not at all green. And the wind turbine project is not a net positive for the environment.
Hippys protesting against liberals. Love it! Almost as funny as Nancy Pelosi battling to up hold the constitution!
Those people were born confused. They are like flies, never any around until there is a dead animal (logging).
it’s the reason humans built aqueducts.
to control the natural resource and preventing disaster to the lowlyers
examples of the side effects from too much sensimella over long periods of time
Not sustainable? Is it going to deplete the available supply of wind?
The project will not become carbon neutral in its lifetime.
Terra-gen is not responsible for clean up of the site after the life of the project and the clean up is not considered in the EIR, nor is the carbon generated by the clean-up.
The mitigations in the EIR for bird strikes, are laughable and include eliminating the rodent prey base using poison. The EIR fails to consider impacts to species that are not endangered or critically threatened.
The wind turbine project will in no way contribute to Humboldt’s energy independence or avoiding PSPS’s.
There will be no way to make sure that power generated goes to Humboldt first and foremost.
>”The wind turbine project will in no way contribute to Humboldt’s energy independence or avoiding PSPS’s” “There will be no way to make sure that power generated goes to Humboldt first and foremost.”
If you haven’t noticed… we are all in this mess together. What matters is that the wind turbines produce electricity with no continuous generation of atmospheric CO2. That’s whats most important.
>”Terra-gen is not responsible for clean up of the site after the life of the project.”
Are they going to run out of wind ? Turbines can’t be maintained and replaced ?
With any luck this project will be continuing in operation for a long… long… time.
Sometime this century, cars and trucks will go electric, and they need power.
>”The project will not become carbon neutral in its lifetime.”
Sadly… humans are not carbon neutral. Our population numbers have become unsustainable.
Best thing to do is donate to Planned Parenthood and stage boycotts/protests at churches.
>”…and include eliminating the rodent prey base using poison.”
Oddly, I didn’t see that in the EIR.
Can you point it out or give a reference to where they plan to spread poison for ‘rodent prey base’ ?
“hmm” copy and pastes the same bullshit on every single article about wind power.
In this time of realization of the consequences of habitat loss this project (TerraGen wind project) that will decimate the habitat of so much Flora and fauna (some rare and endangered) does not seem like the right fit and feels like an oxymoron to the justification of this project to combat climate crisis.
HSU has long been a leader in forestry , marine biology and ecology education, long before this young man parents ever set eyes on one another. What would this young adventurists parents have to say about this fine outstanding student ?
“Hayduke lives!” ? 🔧😝
kilroy was here
I wish you had that caveat for every press release published. Even the Sheriff’s Office etc. are only telling their own side of the story.
True enough. But with the criminal accusations we do say, “This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office [or whatever law enforcement agency is sending out the press release’. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty: ”
Let me think over the reality of making that change.
If clear cutting isn’t sustainable, how is it that Green Diamond is still logging, every year, on the same ownership for over 60+ years now? You may not like clear cutting, but its a farce to say its not ‘sustainable’. Clearly, managing timber rotations is sustainable. People yell that the university is embedded with local industry as if thats a bad thing. If it wasn’t for a relationship between science and industry we would have no real understanding of how to manage resources.
Google earth has a new 4-30-19 image that just replaced the May 2016 image. You may want to look at the remaining tracts they have. they are cutting the last remaining second growth and then that’s it. this is the maple creek area at Big lagoon. the only remaining trees are in drainages and they are currently working on a crafty proposal to the State to pluck the big trees out of those drainages.
Dear anti wind people.
Do you know that the COP25 is happening right now? 10’s of thousands of protesters demanding green energy, and an end to fossil fuels.
While here so called environmentalists are fighting against green, carbon free energy.
The anti wind people keep saying we should do solar, instead. Well who’s stopping you from installing all that solar? Better get a move on, only 250 million watts of solar to install in a year and a half.
But the real reason that there is the big anti wind, anti renewables, is that we haven’t had a huge climate change emergency here. The PSPS has people pissed because we were inconvenienced not because it’s a climate change event that effected “humboldt county”. If the arcata bottoms was flooded daily, or hwy 101 between arcata and eureka was closed at every high tide, maybe then someone would care?
10 years to reduce our carbon footprint by 70%. 7% per year, that’s 7% less electricity, 7% less gasoline, 7% less heating and cooling, 7% less stuff per year.
Here is the same area in 1993, 2003, 2010, 2019.
Earth first died when Judi Bari did.
I haven’t heard of one EF campaign with any Umpf since headwaters.
These kids are just running off the fading glory of her cumulative skill set.
Times have changed.
Decisive identity politics have efficiently destroyed what used to be a sort of unique environmental movement.
The logs going down the highway on trucks keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and so do the sawmills, which are themselves dissappearing. Logging the redwoods when they reach the ripe age of 45 years old and herbiciding the other species is not the model of sustainability envisioned when environmentalists in the 80s and 90s crafted the concept of ecologically sustainable timber production. Those concepts have since been hijacked by the industry and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which uses eco-groovy sounding language to justify the practices of clearcutting, “hack and squirt” herbicides and the wiping out of endangered species.
Maybe I’m posting on the wrong article but it’s about the wind generator s so here I go the whole project is a Total sham. We will pay for them bottom line and it will look like shit and the environmental damages will not be worth it ten fold and the local union work load of total fucking shit is out of area cConstruction companies will roll in and if you go join the union and pay all the fucking dues and deal with their bullshit you might get called up but you probably won’t so the whole project is a bunch of bullshit 600 foot towers 80 of them on Monument Ridge no fucking way there’s no fucking way it is worth It…. put solar on your house the psps shit won’t matter get batteries not a feed back pgne feed back bullshit you feed them when it’s sunny but when the power goes out they leave u in the dark
REDUCE CONSUMPTION, PERIOD.
INDUSTRIAL
COMMERCIAL
LOCAL
PERSONAL.
HEADED BACK TO THE DARK AGES WITH A BETTER SENSE OF LIGHT POLLUTION AND FREQUENCY POLLUTION.
LET’S SEE OUR NIGHT SKIES AGAIN.
GEORGIA GUIDESTONES ARE THE FUTURE.
which bus/train/or horse and buggy will you be on?
We can only hope the sup’s listen to the tribes, and don’t cave to big business. It’s not worth a few tax credits or dollars
get rid of that P O S hotel on the hill and that damn 25×50 led sign on the highway
Reincarnation folks… Leave this place nicer than you found it or come back to a mess next time.