tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188642669907788257.post7255543148852725254..comments2024-03-20T14:47:34.192-07:00Comments on Reading the Washington Landscape: ASB to Marina and State Toxics AccountDan McShanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17044037213245602667noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188642669907788257.post-55834531874919072202013-03-01T09:04:19.226-08:002013-03-01T09:04:19.226-08:00Thanks George for the comments on this. It has bee...Thanks George for the comments on this. It has been a hard issue for Bellingham and alas the whole county. I am not a big private sector good - public sector bad, but in this case I long for the days when GP owned the waterfront - lots of jobs and they worked cooperatively on cleanup plans. Yes the caused the contamination, but that took place long before Nixon and the Clean Water Act and they were prepared to solve the problem far better that the solutions coming from our port.<br />Dan McShanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17044037213245602667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188642669907788257.post-33796154645517197652013-02-26T21:22:22.871-08:002013-02-26T21:22:22.871-08:00That 2016 date is there for a reason -- a big reas...That 2016 date is there for a reason -- a big reason. The Port's belief in the market for the "Clean Ocean Marina" was so fervent that the ASB was specifically called *out* of the "insurance" agreement -- lest the whole grand scheme go south from the outset over the realization that the "Clean Ocean Marina" would leave the rest of us with a very expensive contaminated mess that will haunt Bellingham for decades if not centuries--very, very far from what was promised under Alternative J, when reasonable folks at Georgia-Pacific were deciding how best to fold the tent and leave. <br /><br />The uninsured liability for the ASB could spell deep, deep trouble for POB. But AIG's liability for unanticipated stricter regulation of dioxins has them in deep trouble too. It's a marriage made in heaven: put the dioxins in the ASB (absolving AIG of the upland disposal costs) and thereby cleanse the Port of otherwise crippling liability for cleaning out the ASB. <br /><br />Guess who pays the bill!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15342843840810301970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9188642669907788257.post-59817066368681173422013-02-26T06:21:23.311-08:002013-02-26T06:21:23.311-08:00I have a dim view on marinas. Building boat parki...I have a dim view on marinas. Building boat parking lots in the littoral zones has got to be one of the worst uses for open water that I can think of. Marinas should be limited to work boats and frequent users. As much as I hate the appearance of on-shore boat storage, it is more realistic. From my own extensive time paddling near Seattle marinas, most of those boats seem to sit at the dock 340 or more days/year...poor use of the life rich shallows of open water, which isn't so life rich when boats are parked over it. Scott Schuldthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220924408624888206noreply@blogger.com