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So i have been pouring over the states constitution and have discovered a few interesting things. I am sure all of you are familiar with article 1, section 25:
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
September 2, 2009
Long shot, but we might be able to overturn MLPA!
Picking up writing: the Workshop on Spatial Planning is almost starting
Wageningen UR Centre for Marine Policy is now almost started. We will kick-off the Centre with a 2 day workshop on Spatial management of the North Sea Dogger Bank area: International and multidisciplinary challenges for an integrated maritime policy (2-4 September in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands). We have an interesting program with keynote speakers and a number of breakout sessions to further develop the research agenda around marine spatial planning.
More info: www.cmp.wur.nl/uk/workshop.
September 1, 2009
Explore Maps of Marine Protected Areas with the Surfrider Foundation!
After a year of “map-making” and planning, the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process is in the home stretch. Local stakeholders are putting final touches on the maps and will come up with three different proposals. The three proposals will ultimately be forwarded to the Fish and Game Commission where they will vote on one map they think will work best for southern California.
The Surfrider Foundation is holding community forums up and down the So Cal coast to help local communities learn more about the Marine Life Protection Act and to discuss the proposed maps.
August 28, 2009
Ocean policy task force hears diverse views from Alaskans
By Margaret Bauman
Alaska Journal of Commerce
President Barack Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force, charged with preparing by mid-September a list of priorities for improving ocean stewardship, heard a full spectrum of ideas Aug. 21 in Anchorage from residents and developers whose future is tied to Alaska’s oceans.
For more than three hours, the task force, led by Nancy Sutley, the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, listened to testimony from a cross-section of Alaskans, including resource developers, scientists, subsistence harvesters and commercial fishermen and other coastal residents.
Federal judge dismisses environmentalists’ ploy
Vancouver — From Friday’s Globe and Mail
A federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit by a group of environmentalists that was seeking to stop the Minister of Foreign Affairs from granting clearance to a U.S. vessel that plans to conduct seismic tests in a protected area 250 kilometres southwest of Vancouver Island.
Living Oceans and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society had taken New York’s Columbia University, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Minister of Foreign Affairs to court over a U.S. geological research project that wants to conduct seismic tests in the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area.