‘Bye-Bye-Birdie’
From OOG to Morro Bay California:
"Marine Sanctuary, not Obscene Cranktuary!"
This project is a serious danger to whale migration/navigation (anchored into the seabed a mile below!) and serves only to keep the power plant 'on ice' for future start up of a large desalination unit or some other very destructive industrial use of the 'once through cooling' seawater intake. Scientists are also concerned with the effect all this vibration will have on marine life. Don’t allow this mass industrialization of our ocean. There's no need for them at all- home rooftop solar panels do the job without all the carnage. These are the same old energy companies and opportunistic profiteers with links to multi-national corporations trying desperately to stay in charge of our energy on/off switch.
On Facebook: California Marine Sanctuary Alliance
www.oceanoutfallgroup.com
On Facebook: California Marine Sanctuary Alliance
www.oceanoutfallgroup.com
California Coastal Commission to Seaworld: Stop breeding orcas!
Under international pressure to free their captive orcas and other marine mammals, Seaworld hatched a plan to go into the orca sales business. They went before the California Coastal Commission in Long Beach October 8th, 2015 to ask permission for a tank expansion. Nothing different for the orcas except a bigger tank, but the landscaping and rock formations would be nice to look at if you were a visitor. Seaworld would be able to hold 94 more orcas if the plan went through.
Ocean Outfall Group opposed the Sea World San Diego orca tank expansion and OOG Director Joey Racano had this to say to the Coastal Commission:
https://youtu.be/CyQwJdW8t0M
The commission approved the project, but only on the condition that Seaworld San Diego could no longer breed orcas, nor can they send or receive them. Because of the issue of genetic diversity (or lack thereof) this will eventually put them out of the orca business.
Special thanks to PETA, former commissioner Sara Wan (who hatched the brilliant plan, which I disagreed with and refused to go along with, and boy was I wrong on this one), Ingrid Visser, John Hargrove, Steve-o, Sea Shepherd, and all the activist soldiers!
Seaworld plans to appeal and we will be watching!
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love and respect,
Joey Racano, Director
Ocean Outfall Group
The Ocean Outfall Group has been protecting California's coast and waters from all threats since founded in 2000, and has played a leadership role or had a hand in more major environmental victories than any group in California history. As the last surviving founding member, it is with great love and respect that I dedicate this wonderful new website to my co-founders and OOG partners in many battles: Doug Korthof, Dr. Jan Vandersloot, Larry Porter, Irwin Haydock. We also thank our past and present OOG Board Members: Traci Theile, Paul Watson, Lisa Rosen, Sandra Brazil and Julie Tacker. See announcement below...
The Ocean Outfall Group is proud to announce the addition of Marcia Hanscomb to our Board of Directors as of October 5th, 2013. Marcia has long been the #1 Wetlands activist in California with a shining record that includes the historic victory at Little Shell Wetland in Huntington Beach California, and many other stellar efforts. Marcia is a former member of the National Board of the Sierra Club, having served there for a number of years alongside Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. They are together again with us, much to our good fortune. Thank you Marcia!
Marine Petroleum Areas
Saving the ocean
takes people in motion
you’ll have to do more than
sun tanning with lotion
I don’t mean to shake you
but someone must wake you
lip service; there’s only
so far it will take you
Break out of your bubble
Let’s rock on the double
Get out in the streets
and start kicking up trouble
-joey racano
MPA Collaborative Implementation Project
The Resources Agency decided to hold a meeting of the minds from many disciplines to figure out just how we could actually make the Marine Protected Areas recently created off the coast of California work. I for one was baffled because I had them working the instant they took effect, back in 2007. A local prison spilled sewage in a creek, the creek led to the bay, the bay was an MPA (Marine Protected Area) and I harangued Arnold Swarzenegger’s office until they helped me, and we prosecuted the prison, setting an enormous precedent or two. But I guess that just wasn’t good enough, so here we were again, seven years later, pretending we didn’t know what to do.
The meeting, run by a lovely and friendly woman named Calla Allison, started promptly at 3:00PM, Monday, November 18th, in the auditorium of the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Road, Morro Bay, California. Many times in the past, I had bad blood there, once holding a sign outside saying NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM- EVERYTHING NATURAL WILL BE HISTORY. But those days were gone, and the place had taken a decidedly excellent green bent!
We introduced ourselves, and spouted ideas as Calla wrote them down feverishly. I suggested all law enforcement agencies be sent to MPA training, so they could keep a Peregrine’s eye on poaching polluting or extracting. When asked what agencies we may have forgotten to include, I said the Chumash Indians. Eric Endersby of Morro Bay Harbor Patrol informed me the Chumash have no land and so were not ‘federally recognized’. I took a moment to educate him about how differently indigenous peoples look at the world. The land they have is underwater, out past the surf zone, where ancestors were buried thousands of years ago, before the glaciers melted and oceans rose.
“I know, I know” he dismissed me, “but they aren’t federally recognized” he repeated. So I asked him, “Eric, Harbor Department was created by an act of the Legislature, right?”
“Yes” he answered.
“And that’s the California State Legislature, right? So, you’re not federally recognized!”
We were broken up into groups, and I laughed to see cops in one corner trying to figure out how to milk money out of it all, and scientists and academics in other corners trying to do the same. I asked who had worked on the otter implants that had killed many of them, and found out that Biologist Don Canestro was housing them at Ken Norris Reserve. “You’re sheltering criminals?” I asked.
“I’m housing them and they are only monitoring the otters. That’s Dr. Tinker whose doing the electronic implants on them” he answered. He winced as I took his picture.
I announced to the room that the otters were illegally being carved up and with stolen money. Former State Senator Sam Blakeslee lied to the people in the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) office, telling them his bill ‘mandated’ seismic testing (not true, Arnold vetoed it) and the seismic tests would go forward (they didn’t, we beat them with the Coastal Commission). So now, there are otters out there who need our help and we need to go after that 64 million dollars!
Finally, I asked how the Chair of the MLPA Blue Ribbon Panel, also President of Western States Petroleum- could not have known that offshore fracking was already going on at the time!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/16/1256123/-Big-oil-lobbyist-marine-guardian-praises-draft-fracking-regulations
All in all, it was a well run meeting by Calla Allison, and the Resources Agency, with great activists, eco groups standing up for Marine Protected Areas and those long-suffering Southern Sea Otters.
Stay tuned next for:
‘Nuking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’
with love and respect
joey racano
photos: Racano
Saving the ocean
takes people in motion
you’ll have to do more than
sun tanning with lotion
I don’t mean to shake you
but someone must wake you
lip service; there’s only
so far it will take you
Break out of your bubble
Let’s rock on the double
Get out in the streets
and start kicking up trouble
-joey racano
MPA Collaborative Implementation Project
The Resources Agency decided to hold a meeting of the minds from many disciplines to figure out just how we could actually make the Marine Protected Areas recently created off the coast of California work. I for one was baffled because I had them working the instant they took effect, back in 2007. A local prison spilled sewage in a creek, the creek led to the bay, the bay was an MPA (Marine Protected Area) and I harangued Arnold Swarzenegger’s office until they helped me, and we prosecuted the prison, setting an enormous precedent or two. But I guess that just wasn’t good enough, so here we were again, seven years later, pretending we didn’t know what to do.
The meeting, run by a lovely and friendly woman named Calla Allison, started promptly at 3:00PM, Monday, November 18th, in the auditorium of the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, 20 State Park Road, Morro Bay, California. Many times in the past, I had bad blood there, once holding a sign outside saying NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM- EVERYTHING NATURAL WILL BE HISTORY. But those days were gone, and the place had taken a decidedly excellent green bent!
We introduced ourselves, and spouted ideas as Calla wrote them down feverishly. I suggested all law enforcement agencies be sent to MPA training, so they could keep a Peregrine’s eye on poaching polluting or extracting. When asked what agencies we may have forgotten to include, I said the Chumash Indians. Eric Endersby of Morro Bay Harbor Patrol informed me the Chumash have no land and so were not ‘federally recognized’. I took a moment to educate him about how differently indigenous peoples look at the world. The land they have is underwater, out past the surf zone, where ancestors were buried thousands of years ago, before the glaciers melted and oceans rose.
“I know, I know” he dismissed me, “but they aren’t federally recognized” he repeated. So I asked him, “Eric, Harbor Department was created by an act of the Legislature, right?”
“Yes” he answered.
“And that’s the California State Legislature, right? So, you’re not federally recognized!”
We were broken up into groups, and I laughed to see cops in one corner trying to figure out how to milk money out of it all, and scientists and academics in other corners trying to do the same. I asked who had worked on the otter implants that had killed many of them, and found out that Biologist Don Canestro was housing them at Ken Norris Reserve. “You’re sheltering criminals?” I asked.
“I’m housing them and they are only monitoring the otters. That’s Dr. Tinker whose doing the electronic implants on them” he answered. He winced as I took his picture.
I announced to the room that the otters were illegally being carved up and with stolen money. Former State Senator Sam Blakeslee lied to the people in the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) office, telling them his bill ‘mandated’ seismic testing (not true, Arnold vetoed it) and the seismic tests would go forward (they didn’t, we beat them with the Coastal Commission). So now, there are otters out there who need our help and we need to go after that 64 million dollars!
Finally, I asked how the Chair of the MLPA Blue Ribbon Panel, also President of Western States Petroleum- could not have known that offshore fracking was already going on at the time!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/16/1256123/-Big-oil-lobbyist-marine-guardian-praises-draft-fracking-regulations
All in all, it was a well run meeting by Calla Allison, and the Resources Agency, with great activists, eco groups standing up for Marine Protected Areas and those long-suffering Southern Sea Otters.
Stay tuned next for:
‘Nuking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’
with love and respect
joey racano
photos: Racano
And the Waste Burns On
The Waste Burns On
Kingdoms fall and kingdoms rise
Winds sandblast a Sphynx’s eyes
Seedlings sprout and touch the skies
and the waste burns on
and the waste burns on
A river flows and then relents
Species hop-scotch continents
But through the course of these events
the waste burns on
and the waste burns on
jr
Last night, in the very path of creeping Fukushima radiation, a meeting was held in San Luis Obispo by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They had come to the begrudging home of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant to ask citizens for their input on storage of spent fuel, better known as nuclear waste. Or, as their spin doctors presented it, ‘waste confidence’.
“Define confidence!” a man shouted from somewhere back among the many hundreds in attendance.
SEND THEM AN EMAIL TELLING THEM TO STOP MAKING NUCLEAR WASTE IMMEDIATELY:
E-mail: rulemaking.comments@nrc.gov
FAX: secretary, NRC 301-415-1101
Snail mail: Secretary US NRC
Washington DC 20555-0001
attention- Rule making and Adjudications staff
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s own mission statement admits their job is to create rules allowing for the continued burning of the nuclear fires. But they were up against it last night, at a gigantic meeting attended by an American cross-section of colorful characters, sick to death of the lies, death and danger that are the legacy of a failed experiment called nuclear power.
It was my great double-honor to speak beside the famed Mothers for Peace as well as the Chumash peoples who have inhabited –and lay rightful claim to- the Diablo Canyon area for thousands of years. At one point, I asked Jane Swanson why men can’t join Mothers for Peace, and she corrected me, saying there were ‘plenty of men mothers’.
“How do I join?” I asked, at which point she grasped my wrist and said, “I know about your great love for the Earth, and you are now a mother.” I was humbled.
We spoke in turn as our names were called, a Chumash warrior, a lawyer, a woman named ‘Willow’ with a turtle-carved cane and a sweater of shining sequins. When my turn came, I spoke representing a ‘religious order’ known as Nukes Templar, and presented a ‘5-point plan’ to remove the scourge of nukes forever. “No one has the right to light a match that won’t go out for a quarter million years” I said. I finished by calling for the prosecution of ‘those responsible for this crime against the future.’
As I write these words, the once mighty Diablo Canyon Plant is no longer so imposing viewed in the wafting radioactive shadow of the Fukushima conflagration. “It’s time has come” I said more than once. “Diablo is done.” And people listened with hopeful, hungry eyes.
With love and respect
joey racano
Special thanks to Mothers for Peace
photos: Racano
Kingdoms fall and kingdoms rise
Winds sandblast a Sphynx’s eyes
Seedlings sprout and touch the skies
and the waste burns on
and the waste burns on
A river flows and then relents
Species hop-scotch continents
But through the course of these events
the waste burns on
and the waste burns on
jr
Last night, in the very path of creeping Fukushima radiation, a meeting was held in San Luis Obispo by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They had come to the begrudging home of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant to ask citizens for their input on storage of spent fuel, better known as nuclear waste. Or, as their spin doctors presented it, ‘waste confidence’.
“Define confidence!” a man shouted from somewhere back among the many hundreds in attendance.
SEND THEM AN EMAIL TELLING THEM TO STOP MAKING NUCLEAR WASTE IMMEDIATELY:
E-mail: rulemaking.comments@nrc.gov
FAX: secretary, NRC 301-415-1101
Snail mail: Secretary US NRC
Washington DC 20555-0001
attention- Rule making and Adjudications staff
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s own mission statement admits their job is to create rules allowing for the continued burning of the nuclear fires. But they were up against it last night, at a gigantic meeting attended by an American cross-section of colorful characters, sick to death of the lies, death and danger that are the legacy of a failed experiment called nuclear power.
It was my great double-honor to speak beside the famed Mothers for Peace as well as the Chumash peoples who have inhabited –and lay rightful claim to- the Diablo Canyon area for thousands of years. At one point, I asked Jane Swanson why men can’t join Mothers for Peace, and she corrected me, saying there were ‘plenty of men mothers’.
“How do I join?” I asked, at which point she grasped my wrist and said, “I know about your great love for the Earth, and you are now a mother.” I was humbled.
We spoke in turn as our names were called, a Chumash warrior, a lawyer, a woman named ‘Willow’ with a turtle-carved cane and a sweater of shining sequins. When my turn came, I spoke representing a ‘religious order’ known as Nukes Templar, and presented a ‘5-point plan’ to remove the scourge of nukes forever. “No one has the right to light a match that won’t go out for a quarter million years” I said. I finished by calling for the prosecution of ‘those responsible for this crime against the future.’
As I write these words, the once mighty Diablo Canyon Plant is no longer so imposing viewed in the wafting radioactive shadow of the Fukushima conflagration. “It’s time has come” I said more than once. “Diablo is done.” And people listened with hopeful, hungry eyes.
With love and respect
joey racano
Special thanks to Mothers for Peace
photos: Racano
National Park Service: say no to ranchers at Point Reyes National Seashore!
Thank You! Scoping letter with draft purpose, need and objectives attachment Your comments were successfully submitted. June 01, 2014 07:00 PM Mountain Time
Park: Point Reyes National Seashore Project: Comprehensive Management Plan for Lands under Agricultural Lease/Permits Environmental Assessment Document: Scoping letter with draft purpose, need and objectives attachment Name: Joey J Racano Address: 1487 Nipomo ave Los Osos Calif City: Los Osos State: CA Postal Code: 93402 Email Address: talkaboutthebay@yahoo.com Organization: Ocean Outfall Group
Comments:
Honorable friends,
Please remove the oyster farm and all cattle grazing ASAP. The Tule Elk are of paramount importance. The #1 cause for loss of biodiversity in North America is cattle grazing on public lands. It needs to end now.
Thanks for your attention to this important issue,
Joey Racano, Director
California Ocean Outfall Group
www.oceanoutfallgroup.com
(805) 540-8970
Comment ID: 906340-58782/2703
Park: Point Reyes National Seashore Project: Comprehensive Management Plan for Lands under Agricultural Lease/Permits Environmental Assessment Document: Scoping letter with draft purpose, need and objectives attachment Name: Joey J Racano Address: 1487 Nipomo ave Los Osos Calif City: Los Osos State: CA Postal Code: 93402 Email Address: talkaboutthebay@yahoo.com Organization: Ocean Outfall Group
Comments:
Honorable friends,
Please remove the oyster farm and all cattle grazing ASAP. The Tule Elk are of paramount importance. The #1 cause for loss of biodiversity in North America is cattle grazing on public lands. It needs to end now.
Thanks for your attention to this important issue,
Joey Racano, Director
California Ocean Outfall Group
www.oceanoutfallgroup.com
(805) 540-8970
Comment ID: 906340-58782/2703
