Will Sonoma Supes Trash Our Coast on Tuesday?

[sambacat]

Please write or call your Supervisor re this important meeting concerning the Sonoma Coast tomorrow. My message to E. Carrillo explains the issue:

On June 10, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will vote on a draft letter that would result in arbitrarily surrendering critical aspects of management of the Sonoma Coast to other distant agencies. Hidden away in a letter purportedly promoting expansion of our national marine sanctuaries, the Sonoma Board's draft letter supports a dangerous pending NOAA rulemaking that would enable federal government bureaucrats to simply "not object" to a broad range of proposed industrial and other projects in our coastal waters if any other federal, state, or local agency had already granted a permit for such activity.

This would pave the way for state and federal approvals of sewer outfalls, pipelines, polluting fish farms, and a host of other undesirable projects without our County's approval, even though offshore oil and gas and mineral leasing would be banned. Sonoma County needs to maintain its own jurisdiction over our shoreline, not give it up.

This controversial item number 21 is on the Board's Agenda this Tuesday.

Please amend this badly flawed coastal letter or else simply vote against this attack on our Sonoma Coast.

[Fillie]

Copied and sent to Carrillo. Thanks for the heads-up!

Please write or call your Supervisor re this important meeting concerning the Sonoma Coast tomorrow. My message to E. Carrillo explains the issue:

On June 10, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will vote on a draft letter that would result in arbitrarily surrendering critical aspects of management of the Sonoma Coast to other distant agencies. Hidden away in a letter purportedly promoting expansion of our national marine sanctuaries, the Sonoma Board's draft letter supports a dangerous pending NOAA rulemaking that would enable federal government bureaucrats to simply "not object" to a broad range of proposed industrial and other projects in our coastal waters if any other federal, state, or local agency had already granted a permit for such activity.

This would pave the way for state and federal approvals of sewer outfalls, pipelines, polluting fish farms, and a host of other undesirable projects without our County's approval, even though offshore oil and gas and mineral leasing would be banned. Sonoma County needs to maintain its own jurisdiction over our shoreline, not give it up.

This controversial item number 21 is on the Board's Agenda this Tuesday.

Please amend this badly flawed coastal letter or else simply vote against this attack on our Sonoma Coast.