About Terry Wechsler

Terry came to our county from New York, seeking the fabled Pacific Northwest clean environment and was shocked at the rampant abuses she found here. Terry wrote 15 articles from 2013 to 2015 for Northwest Citizen. She was an attorney and she was also passionately concerned with Whatcom County environmental issues - those actions and government sanctioned programs that destroyed people and natural areas. She died in July 2023, age 67.

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A Call to Action to Support the Lummi Nation

The Lummi requested on Jan. 5, 2015, that the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, honor Art. V of the Treaty of Point Elliott and deny permits for the proposed terminal. We should support them in their request

The Lummi requested on Jan. 5, 2015, that the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, honor Art. V of the Treaty of Point Elliott and deny permits for the proposed terminal. We should support them in their request

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Note:  The following call to action comes from Deb Cruz, a member of a faith-based community that has long supported protection of the Lummi Nation's cultural, historical, and natural resources, all of which would be profoundly and irreparably impacted if the Gateway Pacific Terminal were built to ship 54 million metric tons of coal per annum at Cherry Point. This request originated with the Lummi Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office. 

As many of you may be well aware, on January 5, 2015, a letter was issued from Lummi Nation Indian Business Council to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.  This letter specifically requested that the USACE “take immediate action and deny the permit application” of SSA Marine to build the Gateway Pacific Terminal.  The official Lummi letter is attached [see below].

It is now very important to show our support of Lummi Nation to protect their sacred lands, waters and treaty rights.  Many of you may have already received requests from various organizations asking that you write various government officials showing your support for Lummi’s request and this is no different.  If you haven’t done so already, we are asking that you write to the following key people listed below.

These letters of support do not have to be elaborate or detailed.  Just a few sentences asking these people to support Lummi Nation will be more than adequate and more than appreciated.  It also does not matter if you are not local to Lummi.  We want to encourage as many people as we can, wherever they are, to join us in showing support for Lummi's request.

For those of you affiliated with a faith-based community, we also ask that you state you are a member of whatever faith-based community you are a part of and what your role/position, if any, is in that community.  We are not asking for letters or endorsements from full congregations or communities, but just as individuals who have found a spiritual concern in honoring Lummi’s right to exist and protect what is sacred to them.

Please feel free to pass this on to as many people as you are able to.

Please include a copy of any correspondence to Dr. Kurt Russo below so Lummi can see your support.

Dr. Kurt Russo
Lummi Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office
2665 Kwina Road
Bellingham, WA 98226
email:  KurtR@lummi-nsn.gov

Governor Jay Inslee
Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002

Senator Pattty Murray
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2621

Senator Maria Cantwell
Office of U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell
311 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Representative Suzan DelBene
318 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Chairperson
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
838 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Your attention and support in this matter are greatly appreciated!!

Deb Cruz
 

 

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About Terry Wechsler

Citizen Journalist • Member since May 19, 2013

Terry came to our county from New York, seeking the fabled Pacific Northwest clean environment and was shocked at the rampant abuses she found here. Terry wrote 15 articles from 2013 to 2015 [...]

Terry Wechsler

Feb 03, 2015

To read about the legal landscape, see http://www.whatcomwatch.org/php/WW_open.php?id=1810.

SSA/PIT/GPT/Northwest Jobs Alliance wants this to be about everything but the jurisprudence, so they are trying their case in the court of public opinion:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/02/03/4113940_lummi-nation-rejects-coal-terminal.html?rh=1

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A Call to Action to Support the Lummi Nation

By Terry WechslerOn Jan 27, 2015

The Lummi requested on Jan. 5, 2015, that the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, honor Art. V of the Treaty of Point Elliott and deny permits for the proposed terminal. We should support them in their request

1 comment, most recent 9 years ago

Call to Action—Shell Anacortes Crude by Rail Proposal

By Terry WechslerOn Jan 24, 2015

The fourth area refinery crude by rail infrastructure project to receive permits without benefit of environmental review is being appealed, and provides an opportunity to make precedent.

An Imminent Threat:  The State Plans for CBR Disaster While Counties Punt

By Terry WechslerOn Aug 25, 2014

While the state spends hundreds of thousands of dollars defining risks of crude by rail, Skagit County finds no significant adverse impacts of a crude-by-rail proposal.

1 comment, most recent 10 years ago

Good Friends and Neighbors:  What $54 Million Doesn’t Buy, Part 2

By Terry WechslerOn Aug 20, 2014

Not content with causing massive inconvenience, BNSF is now literally dumping on county residents.

10 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Good Friends and Neighbors:  What $54 Million Doesn’t Buy

By Terry WechslerOn Aug 15, 2014

A massive upgrade of the Cascade [rail] Corridor has left residents stranded and the sheriff asking Washington, DC, to intervene.

7 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Trial by Fire:  A Rising Tide of Civil Disobedience

By Terry WechslerOn Aug 01, 2014

Carefully planned actions are rolling across the state to make the point that it’s not OK to expose us to risks associated with CBR.

7 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Trial by Fire:  Call to Action to Comment on the BP Pier Expansion

By Terry WechslerOn Jul 13, 2014

Years after BP completed its north dock, the Army Corps of Engineers released a draft EIS and it’s really really stupid.

Power to the Permit! (or Closely Hold This!)

By Terry WechslerOn Jul 07, 2014

It is time we stop allowing corporations to externalize the costs associated with their risky business practices, and demand more from our regulators who hold the keys to the kingdom.

4 comments, most recent 9 years ago

Trial by Fire: Lessons Not Learned One Year after Lac-Megantic

By Terry WechslerOn Jul 02, 2014

On the anniversary of the Lac-Megantic disaster, communities throughout North America rally in solidarity to remember and protest wholly inadequate government response to crude-by-rail’s risks.

4 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Stay the Frack Out of Our Forearc Redux

By Terry WechslerOn Jun 06, 2014

Part 2: Following Ken Oplinger to California, and Home Again

4 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Stay the Frack Out of Our Forearc

By Terry WechslerOn May 11, 2014

Part 1: Introduction to the Bellingham Basin’s Potential for Fracking, Earthquakes, and Earthquakes Due to Fracking

3 comments, most recent 10 years ago

An Imminent Threat

By Terry WechslerOn May 09, 2014

Why Washington must step in and assume lead agency status in Skagit County for the Shell crude by rail proposal.

6 comments, most recent 10 years ago

“Friends and Neighbors”?

By Terry WechslerOn Apr 21, 2014

A closer look at Whatcom County’s industrial “stewards of the environment.”

4 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Water, Water Everywhere, but ...

By Terry WechslerOn Apr 19, 2014

or How Not to Plan for Future Generations’ Water Needs

12 comments, most recent 10 years ago

Killer Industrial Jobs or Long-term Job Killers?

By Terry WechslerOn Apr 06, 2014

Why commenting on the EIS for Comp Plan revisions for Cherry Point means demanding an EIS in the first place.

5 comments, most recent 10 years ago