By: Terry Wechsler

A Call to Action to Support the Lummi Nation
By Terry Wechsler · Tue Jan 27, 2015
The Lummi requested on Jan. 5, 2015, that the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, honor Art. V of the Treaty of Point Elliott and deny permits for the proposed terminal. We should support them in their request
2 min read · 1 comment
Call to Action—Shell Anacortes Crude by Rail Proposal
By Terry Wechsler · Sat Jan 24, 2015
The fourth area refinery crude by rail infrastructure project to receive permits without benefit of environmental review is being appealed, and provides an opportunity to make precedent.
5 min read
An Imminent Threat:  The State Plans for CBR Disaster While Counties Punt
By Terry Wechsler · Mon Aug 25, 2014
While the state spends hundreds of thousands of dollars defining risks of crude by rail, Skagit County finds no significant adverse impacts of a crude-by-rail proposal.
6 min read · 1 comment
Good Friends and Neighbors:  What $54 Million Doesn’t Buy, Part 2
By Terry Wechsler · Wed Aug 20, 2014
Not content with causing massive inconvenience, BNSF is now literally dumping on county residents.
3 min read · 10 comments
Good Friends and Neighbors:  What $54 Million Doesn’t Buy
By Terry Wechsler · Fri Aug 15, 2014
A massive upgrade of the Cascade [rail] Corridor has left residents stranded and the sheriff asking Washington, DC, to intervene.
6 min read · 7 comments
Trial by Fire:  A Rising Tide of Civil Disobedience
By Terry Wechsler · Fri Aug 1, 2014
Carefully planned actions are rolling across the state to make the point that it’s not OK to expose us to risks associated with CBR.
3 min read · 7 comments
Trial by Fire:  Call to Action to Comment on the BP Pier Expansion
By Terry Wechsler · Sun Jul 13, 2014
Years after BP completed its north dock, the Army Corps of Engineers released a draft EIS and it’s really really stupid.
3 min read
Power to the Permit! (or Closely Hold This!)
By Terry Wechsler · Mon Jul 7, 2014
It is time we stop allowing corporations to externalize the costs associated with their risky business practices, and demand more from our regulators who hold the keys to the kingdom.
5 min read · 4 comments
Trial by Fire: Lessons Not Learned One Year after Lac-Megantic
By Terry Wechsler · Wed Jul 2, 2014
On the anniversary of the Lac-Megantic disaster, communities throughout North America rally in solidarity to remember and protest wholly inadequate government response to crude-by-rail’s risks.
5 min read · 4 comments
Stay the Frack Out of Our Forearc Redux
By Terry Wechsler · Fri Jun 6, 2014
Part 2: Following Ken Oplinger to California, and Home Again
4 min read · 4 comments
An Imminent Threat
By Terry Wechsler · Fri May 9, 2014
Why Washington must step in and assume lead agency status in Skagit County for the Shell crude by rail proposal.
17 min read · 6 comments
“Friends and Neighbors”?
By Terry Wechsler · Mon Apr 21, 2014
A closer look at Whatcom County’s industrial “stewards of the environment.”
5 min read · 4 comments
Water, Water Everywhere, but ...
By Terry Wechsler · Sat Apr 19, 2014
or How Not to Plan for Future Generations’ Water Needs
3 min read · 12 comments
Killer Industrial Jobs or Long-term Job Killers?
By Terry Wechsler · Sun Apr 6, 2014
Why commenting on the EIS for Comp Plan revisions for Cherry Point means demanding an EIS in the first place.
7 min read · 5 comments

Terry Wechsler

Citizen Journalist · Writing Since Feb 4, 2025
Terry came to our county from New York, seeking the fabled Pacific Northwest clean environment and was shocked at the rampant abuses she found here. Terry wrote 15 articles from 2013 to 2015 for Northwest Citizen. She was an attorney and she was also passionately concerned with Whatcom County environmental issues - those actions and government sanctioned programs that destroyed people and natural areas. She died in July 2023, age 67.

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