150+ folks turned out last night for a spirited action held to highlight the dangers of oil trains and also to celebrate our victory in Skagit County, where on Monday the Hearing Examiner ruled that Shell can’t move forward with expansion plans (to accept oil trains) without a full environmental and safety review
In their 2015 State of the Planet address at City Hall today, the Plant-for-the-Planet Climate Justice Ambassadors addressed a crowd of about a hundred, describing our critical present moment, when we have to quickly change our ways and begin to abandon fossil fuels.
Almost 100 people showed up at the Seattle Kinder Morgan office this afternoon (with less than a day’s notice, in most cases) to stand in solidarity with the protesters on Burnaby Mountain. Read the letter given to Kinder Morgan by members of Rising Tide Seattle and 350 Seattle. Here’s the Seattle Times coverage.
With a thousand Americans and Canadians gathering at the Peace Arch in Blaine on Saturday, it was a gorgeous day to kick off the 4 Days of Action that led to the signing of the International Treaty to Protect the Sacredness of the Salish Sea.
350 Seattle has sent a letter urging Governor Jay Inslee and Washington State’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Taskforce (CERT) to adhere to the best and most recent science regarding the demands of climate change. With the impacts of carbon pollution already being seen in Washington State, from record wildfires to shellfish industry distress, 350 Seattle urged the CERT to “set an example for other states, our nation, and our world.”
Full details here. An incredibly important victory for the broad and deep Power Past Coal Coalition, and all of us. Big Coal is probably starting
On September 20th, as world leaders gather for the UN climate summit in New York, Canadians, Americans, First Nations, Native American tribes, and all the diverse communities of the Salish Sea will gather at the Peace Arch to send a unified and clear message to world leaders, as well as to our own local elected officials: it is time for unprecedented action to defend the Salish Sea and our global climate from fossil fuel development.
Thanks to all who came out to our second oil-train protest; we had about 150 people, a gorgeous day (if, um, a little….warm), and excellent speakers. Watch here and stay in touch for direct action possibilities this summer….warrior up!
On Thursday, the Finance and Culture Committee of the Seattle City Council unanimously accepted amended language into Resolution 31525 that specifies that the City Council and the Mayor are urging therein that the SCERS (pension) board move forward on divestment.
Last night, members of 350 Seattle and Rising Tide Seattle joined other concerned citizens at the Years of Living Dangerously Cinerama screening featuring Governor Inslee, who was present for questions.
