Blaine Confidential

1/30/25 letter to City of Blaine : BLAINE'S SHAME CCTV of Blaine City Council member Mike Hill accosting community activist Otto Pointer at the November 13, 2024, council meeting. Mike Hill, owner of Starbuck's and Chevron, as well as a downtown and CARA developer, has not recused himself when voting on zoning amendments to the Blaine Municipal Code that financially benefit him. This self-dealing is against the law. In late 2023, when Blaine community activists handed over their extensive evidence of alleged official corruption by the City of Blaine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) criminal division and the FBI, they had reason to believe that the rule of law would be restored in their town. The City of Blaine--which had illegally up-zoned the city's Critical Aquifer Recharge Area (CARA) into a Planned Unit Development (PUD) over the city's drinking water aquifer without preparing a legally required Environmental Impact Statement--was clearly in the wr...

1/19/25 letter to City of Blaine : Looking back on 2024, the top story in Blaine was The Northern Light coverup of criminal misconduct by Blaine public officials involved in destroying the environment of our city on behalf of crooked developers. For their concerted efforts covering up crimes by the City of Blaine and BP, The Northern Light earns the title of The Polluters Voice.

1/19/25 letter to City of Blaine : The anti-environment government of the City of Blaine, led by Mayor Mary Lou Steward, gets a boost on Tuesday when the anti-environment government of the United States, led by President Donald Trump, renews its mission to repeal the Clean Water Act and to destroy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As Mary Lou et al proceed with polluting the city drinking water aquifer, salmon streams and Drayton Harbor watershed for the benefit of crooked developers like Blaine City Council members Mike Hill and Rhyan Lopez, our new president has their back.

1/3/25 letter to City of Blaine : If humans continue to increase their consumption of fossil fuels, it is likely that the grandkids of toddlers today will see the submersion of Semiahmoo Spit and Marine Park by rising sea levels. Continuing to build condos on the spit and expanding our sewer treatment plant in Marine Park to accommodate the thousands of new residents moving here are foolhardy given this likely scenario. While it is consistent with the white settler attitude of trashing the Drayton Harbor waterfront a century ago, continuing in this vein is inconsistent with the federal Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. You will get another lesson in federal laws soon enough. Apparently, the lesson learned in federal court from the Blaine sewer treatment plant relocation fiasco has been forgotten by the new band of crooks at city hall. Your education awaits.