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Submitted by Rick on Wed, 01/11/2006 - 6:35am.

How about: "for environmental impact review"? From the Olympian:

OLYMPIA — Three Olympia residents filed written challenges this week to plans for dredging the Port of Olympia harbor and Budd Inlet turning basin for ships.

Residents Walt Jorgensen, Jerry Lee Dierker and Arthur West essentially accused the port of doing little or no environmental review of the effects of dredging.

The port hopes to gain permits to start the $2.4 million job in October. It would take four months to complete, according to Jim Amador, the port’s marine terminal director. The port and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers believe the dredging, the first in more than 30 years, is necessary to remove silt that someday could impede ships from entering or using the port.

The appellants believe the port is in violation of the state Environmental Policy Act and needs to do an environmental impact review before dredging. They further have linked the dredging to a port plan to recruit a Weyerhaeuser log export business to Olympia this year from Tacoma. Port officials deny any connection between the need to dredge and their plans to bring the Federal Way-based business to Olympia.

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Commissioner Steve Pottle termed all of the appellants “anti-port

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I wonder if bringing in media

I wonder if bringing in mediation would help. Sounds like the port is feeling defensive and that they aren't able to hear what the appellants are saying. Or if I go with my cynical view, they don't want to hear what the appellants are saying.
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Why is it that when someone h

Why is it that when someone has a new idea, or, another idea, they are immediately anti-american-democracy-port, etc.?
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