Re: [bolger] Re: Where does some of that time go...
Certainly a widespread phenomenon, Otter.
The ‘Daily Bread’ of a democracy.
All the more reason to get and stay involved.
Often seemingly to no avail. But push-back does alter things, if not
at least pull like-minded folks together to pool resources, including experience
with such emerging challenges.
And then there are times when things really get moved into a different
direction.
As to energy-related dramatics from drilling and fracking,
over pipelines to foreign-policy initiatives including oil-related wars, much of
that depends in substantial measure on everyone’s personal consumption –
left-wing or right-, god or god-free. The more we burn, the more intrusive
the multiple layers of cost.
Interestingly, the current globally-slower economy-related drop in energy-cost may put quite a few of such projects on ice. Whether that would affect your pipeline I would not know.
Interestingly, the current globally-slower economy-related drop in energy-cost may put quite a few of such projects on ice. Whether that would affect your pipeline I would not know.
Oil-trains and tanker-trucks seem more hazardous
yet...
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
P.S.: It is my understanding that BP is nowhere near
done paying for that oil-well failure in the Gulf.
Sent:Monday, October 27, 2014 10:20 AM
Subject:[bolger] Re: Where does some of that time
go...
Nothing here sets you apart from the rest of the country. I live in another
great port city, Duluth, MN. Everything here, too, is geared for whatever is
best for businesses, even if that is what is worst for the environment. We are
now in the process of big oil building three half million gallon storage tanks
on the shore of Lake Superior as a holding tank for the oil pipeline being built
across public and private land coming from Canada. Everyone knows about the
Kingston Pipeline, but for some reason this one doesn't seem to make the new,
even though it is slated handle as much. Our government is letting a Canadian
private oil company use right of eminent domain to force right of way across
private lands. This includes land on Indian reservations (they are opposed) when
said land is supposed to be under the control solely by them as a sovereign
nation. In other words our government is forcing this down the throats of
everyone for the good of a foreign oil company! The oil company of course say
this is all perfectly safe and there will never be a spill that will pollute the
land and waterways along the pipeline or into Lake Superior. Yeah, right! Gulf
oil spill ring any bells. Of course, the people at the top of the company who
wants all this do not live anywhere near where the damage will be when the spill
happens, just like the BP CEO looked at the mess in the Gulf, then got on his
private jet and flew home to Europe.
So, government sucks everywhere, not
only in Gloucester. Money is the only God now days :(
Bob
Nothing here sets you apart from the rest of the country. I live in another great port city, Duluth, MN. Everything here, too, is geared for whatever is best for businesses, even if that is what is worst for the environment. We are now in the process of big oil building three half million gallon storage tanks on the shore of Lake Superior as a holding tank for the oil pipeline being built across public and private land coming from Canada. Everyone knows about the Kingston Pipeline, but for some reason this one doesn't seem to make the new, even though it is slated handle as much. Our government is letting a Canadian private oil company use right of eminent domain to force right of way across private lands. This includes land on Indian reservations (they are opposed) when said land is supposed to be under the control solely by them as a sovereign nation. In other words our government is forcing this down the throats of everyone for the good of a foreign oil company! The oil company of course say this is all perfectly safe and there will never be a spill that will pollute the land and waterways along the pipeline or into Lake Superior. Yeah, right! Gulf oil spill ring any bells. Of course, the people at the top of the company who wants all this do not live anywhere near where the damage will be when the spill happens, just like the BP CEO looked at the mess in the Gulf, then got on his private jet and flew home to Europe.
So, government sucks everywhere, not only in Gloucester. Money is the only God now days :(
Bob
So, government sucks everywhere, not only in Gloucester. Money is the only God now days :(
Bob
Almost forgot,
Harbor Plan Chair Richard Noonan is an ex- Exxon-Mobil mid-level manager
(if memory serves correctly) and now runs a coffee-&-donut emporium...
?!!
And it is 187 pages (with 19+33 pages by PB&F).
Be prepared for a slow server-response.
Be prepared for a slow server-response.
Suanne Altenburger, PB&F
Sent:Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:48 PM
Subject:[bolger] Where does some of that time
go...
Hello All.
Here from the ‘trenches’ in the battle against further erosion of Gloucester’s Working Waterfront – Phil’s Homeport.
A fair bit to read and store in a safe spot.
PB&F went ‘big bore’ on the issue since we’ve invested so much time, energy, resources in this.
As a matter of Local Politics here in ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ notice the
contradictions between Mayor Kirk’s position in a Letter of Support for our
efforts to then state the opposite now, or that of Fisheries Commission Chair
Mark Ring just 2 years ago and now.
Or the odd case of Council President McGeary routinely flying the flag as a “Democrat” (as in Democratic Party) e.g. via local Cable-Access TV but has never supported any Green Collar Jobs-Creation on the Inner Harbor, no potent support for the Fishing-Fleet, no interest in leading in connecting the School System with Ocean-centric Waterfront-based vocational-technical training etc.
Councilor Verga is a Realtor with higher ambitions.
Banker Bob Gillis represents property-owners.
Or the odd case of Council President McGeary routinely flying the flag as a “Democrat” (as in Democratic Party) e.g. via local Cable-Access TV but has never supported any Green Collar Jobs-Creation on the Inner Harbor, no potent support for the Fishing-Fleet, no interest in leading in connecting the School System with Ocean-centric Waterfront-based vocational-technical training etc.
Councilor Verga is a Realtor with higher ambitions.
Banker Bob Gillis represents property-owners.
Pregent runs a commercial development on the Inner Harbor.
Amero owns property on the Inner Harbor.
Amero owns property on the Inner Harbor.
etc., etc.
A remarkable case of ‘peculiar’ interests offered up to the state of
Massachusetts as representative of this ‘community’.
The only ocean-centric businesses were represented by NEPTUNE’s HARVEST’s
Ann Molloy (against) (Check outwww.neptunesharvest.com)and a sole (apolitical) fisherman who goes
along with what he’s told...
The deeper you get into this, the more intriguing actually.
Legally dictated but still remarkable, this 190+ body of Comments does include ALL of PB&F’s Commentary and Attachments – which accounts for its slow server-response no doubt...
IF ANYBODY in this Group has respective connections, this would be a great journalistic project on how to run ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ into the ground – or not !!
This deserves a ‘big bore’ spotlight from without.
Lot’s of layers for a PULITZER candidate sequence of stories.
For starters
The deeper you get into this, the more intriguing actually.
Legally dictated but still remarkable, this 190+ body of Comments does include ALL of PB&F’s Commentary and Attachments – which accounts for its slow server-response no doubt...
IF ANYBODY in this Group has respective connections, this would be a great journalistic project on how to run ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ into the ground – or not !!
This deserves a ‘big bore’ spotlight from without.
Lot’s of layers for a PULITZER candidate sequence of stories.
For starters
- small town politics,
- ‘peculiar’ policies by mid-level City staffers,
- utter failure by quite a few elected ad unelected folks to engage in this port’s challenges,
- grand context between national Fisheries policies and low-carbon demands under Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM),
- utter failure by quite a few elected ad unelected folks to engage in this port’s challenges,
- grand context between national Fisheries policies and low-carbon demands under Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM),
- confusion of focus by a all sorts of ‘players’ (hired, elected,
volunteering),
- ‘odd’ City-level formalities in this process,
- ‘odd’ City-level formalities in this process,
- and note the range of voices aligned against this ‘plan’,
- and so much more
- and so much more
all in more or less full public view.
Mid-Term you can see the proponents of this ‘plan’ as the elected and self-appointed folks who will be recorded as the key-actors who lost the commercial fishing fleet and thus the viability of this old port-economy.
A good book right there !
Buckle up:
http://www.gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3130
... or should that be ‘grab your life-preservers’, dry-suit...
Mid-Term you can see the proponents of this ‘plan’ as the elected and self-appointed folks who will be recorded as the key-actors who lost the commercial fishing fleet and thus the viability of this old port-economy.
A good book right there !
Buckle up:
http://www.gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3130
... or should that be ‘grab your life-preservers’, dry-suit...
Good thing – despite ‘close-contact’ no contagion-risks here.
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
Hello All.
Here from the ‘trenches’ in the battle against further erosion of Gloucester’s Working Waterfront – Phil’s Homeport.
A fair bit to read and store in a safe spot.
PB&F went ‘big bore’ on the issue since we’ve invested so much time, energy, resources in this.
As a matter of Local Politics here in ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ notice the
contradictions between Mayor Kirk’s position in a Letter of Support for our
efforts to then state the opposite now, or that of Fisheries Commission Chair
Mark Ring just 2 years ago and now.
Or the odd case of Council President McGeary routinely flying the flag as a “Democrat” (as in Democratic Party) e.g. via local Cable-Access TV but has never supported any Green Collar Jobs-Creation on the Inner Harbor, no potent support for the Fishing-Fleet, no interest in leading in connecting the School System with Ocean-centric Waterfront-based vocational-technical training etc.
Councilor Verga is a Realtor with higher ambitions.
Banker Bob Gillis represents property-owners.
Or the odd case of Council President McGeary routinely flying the flag as a “Democrat” (as in Democratic Party) e.g. via local Cable-Access TV but has never supported any Green Collar Jobs-Creation on the Inner Harbor, no potent support for the Fishing-Fleet, no interest in leading in connecting the School System with Ocean-centric Waterfront-based vocational-technical training etc.
Councilor Verga is a Realtor with higher ambitions.
Banker Bob Gillis represents property-owners.
Pregent runs a commercial development on the Inner Harbor.
Amero owns property on the Inner Harbor.
Amero owns property on the Inner Harbor.
etc., etc.
A remarkable case of ‘peculiar’ interests offered up to the state of
Massachusetts as representative of this ‘community’.
The only ocean-centric businesses were represented by NEPTUNE’s HARVEST’s
Ann Molloy (against) (Check outwww.neptunesharvest.com)and a sole (apolitical) fisherman who goes
along with what he’s told...
The deeper you get into this, the more intriguing actually.
Legally dictated but still remarkable, this 190+ body of Comments does include ALL of PB&F’s Commentary and Attachments – which accounts for its slow server-response no doubt...
IF ANYBODY in this Group has respective connections, this would be a great journalistic project on how to run ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ into the ground – or not !!
This deserves a ‘big bore’ spotlight from without.
Lot’s of layers for a PULITZER candidate sequence of stories.
For starters
The deeper you get into this, the more intriguing actually.
Legally dictated but still remarkable, this 190+ body of Comments does include ALL of PB&F’s Commentary and Attachments – which accounts for its slow server-response no doubt...
IF ANYBODY in this Group has respective connections, this would be a great journalistic project on how to run ‘America’s Oldest Seaport’ into the ground – or not !!
This deserves a ‘big bore’ spotlight from without.
Lot’s of layers for a PULITZER candidate sequence of stories.
For starters
- small town politics,
- ‘peculiar’ policies by mid-level City staffers,
- utter failure by quite a few elected ad unelected folks to engage in this port’s challenges,
- grand context between national Fisheries policies and low-carbon demands under Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM),
- utter failure by quite a few elected ad unelected folks to engage in this port’s challenges,
- grand context between national Fisheries policies and low-carbon demands under Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM),
- confusion of focus by a all sorts of ‘players’ (hired, elected,
volunteering),
- ‘odd’ City-level formalities in this process,
- ‘odd’ City-level formalities in this process,
- and note the range of voices aligned against this ‘plan’,
- and so much more
- and so much more
all in more or less full public view.
Mid-Term you can see the proponents of this ‘plan’ as the elected and self-appointed folks who will be recorded as the key-actors who lost the commercial fishing fleet and thus the viability of this old port-economy.
A good book right there !
Buckle up:
http://www.gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3130
... or should that be ‘grab your life-preservers’, dry-suit...
Mid-Term you can see the proponents of this ‘plan’ as the elected and self-appointed folks who will be recorded as the key-actors who lost the commercial fishing fleet and thus the viability of this old port-economy.
A good book right there !
Buckle up:
http://www.gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3130
... or should that be ‘grab your life-preservers’, dry-suit...
Good thing – despite ‘close-contact’ no contagion-risks here.
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F