Aug 26 2010
For the last week, a Great Blue Heron has been fishing on the shoreline at our Marina. And I am ridiculously happy about that. It’s been three years since we had one in residence here. On November 7 2007, due to a series of moves so stupid people are still figuring them out, the Cosco [...]
Aug 15 2010
No, I’m not talking about being on a small boat with a big family. I’m talking about being in the Bay. Because we live on water, we keep thinking of this stuff we float on as the sea. But it really isn’t. It’s sludge and grunge and the effluent of the surrounding urban population. It’s [...]
Jul 24 2010
You gotta hand it to Baykeeper; they keep swinging. Notice how insanely long this is? That’s a lot of lawsuits in the last three years, and a whole lot, I mean OMG, a whole lot, of sewage in the Bay. Some of these I knew about, some I didn’t. They all add up to a [...]
Feb 20 2010
From the lovely gCaptain: A federal judge has ordered a Hong Kong-based company to pay a $10 million fine after the cargo ship it operated caused a massive oil spill in San Francisco Bay. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston also ordered Fleet Management Inc. to better train its officers in navigation and safety Friday. [...]
Feb 17 2010
This just in: New Sentencing Expected In Cosco Busan Oil Spill Fleet Management Ltd. of Hong Kong was the operator of the Cosco Busan, responsible for hiring and training the crew, at the time the container ship struck a fender of a Bay Bridge support pier in heavy fog on Nov. 7, 2007. More than [...]
Jan 22 2010
This just in, from Baykeeper: Heavy Rains Trigger Sewer System Breakdowns Heavy storms this week have caused numerous sewage spills and treatment facility overflows that are polluting waterways and closing beaches – and reports are still coming in from across the region. So far, 235,361 gallons have discharged from 23 sewage system overflows, along with [...]
Dec 04 2009
…if you weren’t paying attention, that is. This is so goofy: Great whites near shore more often than believed For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore. We were wrong. Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between [...]
Nov 02 2009
Almost too mundane to blog: Tanker spills oil into San Francisco Bay A mechanical failure during the fueling of a tanker caused an oil spill Friday morning, leaving a two-mile slick south of the Bay Bridge and evoking memories of a much larger spill two years ago. The spill was reported to the Coast Guard [...]
Oct 05 2009
This crossed my inbox this morning: It’s clear: The Bay isn’t as murky After more than a century of being murky from enough Gold Rush-era mining sediment to fill 60 Superdomes, researchers say, the Bay suddenly crossed a profound threshold 10 years ago and became much clearer. “The conditions in the water “… changed dramatically,” [...]
Jul 15 2009
This is so cool. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. The winners are here. The last one, Evolutionary Recovery, is my fave. But you probably could have guessed that. The problem with fabulous [...]
Jul 14 2009
November 2007, friends, is when the Cosco Busan hit the Bridge. We are just now getting our wildlife back to pre-spill levels, but it’s clear that things were really disrupted. Our blue heron is forever gone, as is our favorite harbor seal. And in the face of that, they’re only going to give John Cota [...]
Jul 08 2009
I know it’s unseemly to cackle, but Judge Refuses 2nd SF Bay Spill Guilty Plea Attempt SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) ? A Federal appeals court in San Francisco turned down a ship management company’s bid Monday to be shielded from a fine of up to $40 million if it is convicted of polluting [...]
Apr 09 2009
This in, from SF Gate: $1.6 million fine for 2 Marin sewage spills A Marin County sewage agency has agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine for spilling more than 3 million gallons of sewage into Richardson Bay last year, officials said Wednesday. Son of ex-Speaker Núñez faces murder trial 04.09.09 //<![CDATA[ sfg_hideoneorlast('rl_news_bay_area_rl'); //]]> The [...]
Apr 07 2009
This just in, from Baykeeper: Speak Out Against Offshore Drilling on April 16 Next week, the Bay Area will host a national debate over oil, gas and energy impacts to our waterways. On Thursday, April 16, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a hearing in San Francisco to gauge public opinion on offshore [...]
Feb 27 2009
Unbefreakinglievable. Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over SAN FRANCISCO—Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay. And those were just the big spills the [...]
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