Washington: 50 people do direct action against gravel mine!
Here’s an article & photo about it:
Dozens of people turned out Friday to protest a gravel mine expansion
on Maury Island, blocking access roads in the latest chapter of an
ongoing environmental fight. The Seattle Times reported that about 50
people gathered at the construction site of a loading dock, delaying
work on the site by hours.
The King County Sheriff’s Office said no
arrests were made. Workers were able to walk through the barricade.
The mine has been a contentious issue for a decade. In December,
outgoing state Public Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland signed a
lease, granted to a subsidiary of Glacier Northwest, that allows it to
build a barge-loading pier on state aquatic lands in the Maury Island
Aquatic Reserve. Protesters say the mine expansion will damage
critical shoreline habitat and threaten chinook salmon and killer
whales in Puget Sound.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/583635.html
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