January
14,
2004 Portspin: "Mitigation" Sandcastles We've been out on the World Wide Web, visiting the Sea-Tac Airport site, where one can read up on the all the wonderful things that the Port of Seattle plans to do to mitigate harm from the third-runway project. It almost sounds good, till you realize that the Port is still fighting hard AGAINST doing most of this stuff. They're in not one but THREE legal appeals, always trying to do less than the law requires. In the Supreme Court, they're arguing for the right to bring in fill material that is contaminated beyond legal, established criteria, & they're arguing that the criteria ar |