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09 12 09 The Marine Life Protection Act - Initiative: The Backdoor To Oil ex-President Dr John "Mick" Seidl" of MAXXAM, Pacific Lumber, and ENRON Joins the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation During his 4 years there he reported solely to Lew Coleman ex-President of Bank of America MAXXAM-izing on the Commons Held In Public Trust Dan Bacher's great article from yesteryear! http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/100600graydavis.html By: Dan Bacher October 6, 2000 Just one month after the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation was formed: About 200 forest protection advocates from throughout the state gathered in a rally at the State Capitol on Tuesday, October 3, to demand access to Governor Gray Davis, who seems to be available only if one contributes colossal sums of money - like Sierra Pacific, Pacific Lumber and other large timber companies do. The rally featured a backdrop of a "Governor Sale" banner as "Grey Dollars" - fake $100 bills with Davis' face on them - were distributed among the crowd. The event was historic in that it was the first time that activists from North Coast, including the Environmental Projection Center (EPIC), Northcoast Earth First! and Humboldt Watershed Council, rallied with Sierra Nevada activists like Yuba Nation in Nevada City and Arnold area residents. "Davis' first appointment, as transition team leader, was Barry Munitz, a former vice president of Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Company, he also appointed Mark Bossetti, formerly on the board of Sierra Pacific, to the California Board of Forestry." "Clearly, timber dollars in the hundreds of thousands have intoxicated Davis to the point of him having no desire to work toward any forestry reform at all," said Darryl Cherney of Environmentally Sound Productions. "The rally and attendathon were catalyzed by a recent uprising of groups throughout Eastern and Central California, these areas are not traditionally known for civil disobedience and feisty protests. But with arrests in places that have never seen them before, like Arnold and Nevada City, and vehement outrage from Shingletown, Redding, Hayfork, Mt. Shasta and Weaverville, the other shoe seems to be dropping in the arena of forestry activism." Unfortunately, no representatives of fishing groups, who have been working for healthy watersheds and forests for years, were put on the list of speakers who addressed the crowd. This was a glaring weakness by the organizers of the rally. Trout Unlimited, United Anglers and Save Our Salmon, who have devoted much of their time working with environmental groups on preserving North Coast and Sierra Nevada forests, weren't there. These are the folks who are mostly directly impacted by the destruction of salmon and steelhead fisheries on the North Coast and rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout in the Sierra Nevada. While the governor refuses to clamp down on timber operations that destroy the habitat of salmon and steelhead, the Department of Fish and Game and National Marine Fisheries Service has imposed increasing restrictions on anglers. Just to fish now, you nearly need a lawyer with you to make sure that you are not fishing in the wrong stretch of a river at the wrong time with the wrong lures or baits with the wrong hooks. The state regulations are punitive against anglers, who were supporting sustainable forestry practices before many of the environmental groups came into existence. That was 9 years ago. And just as the Salmon, we come full circle now. The influence of multi-billion dollar private foundations whose board members and even CEO's are from companies that have plundered worker's pensions, while tax dollars pay for their crime's after shocks in communities across State, are now establishing governance reform programs through elaborate public processes. We face now the vastness of Mendo Mariculture. No that's not the one most talked about that's going on in county residents backyards. From the Marine Life Protection Act "Initiative" MLPA Master Plan Science Advisory Team (SAT) January 23, 2008 Meeting Summary (revised March 31, 2008) The SAT reviewed existing levels of protection for salmon trolling (changed to "high" in water deeper than 50m and "high/moderate-high" in water shallower than 50m), crab fishing, striped bass fishing, shorefishing, and halibut hook and line fishing (all remained at their previous level of protection). Members also established new levels of protection for mariculture activities ("low"), which had not been previously reviewed. Mariculture SAT co-chair Mark Carr presented information about the potential and actual impacts of mariculture activities in the North Central Coast Study Region (NCCSR). After discussion among SAT members and after hearing public comment, the SAT unanimously voted to assign a "low" level of protection to areas allowing mariculture activities. Privatization of Access and Distribution - whether that be for food or energy is the name of the game. also access to the seafloor for SSD, and carbon injection, deep-water aquaculture, mineral mining, thermal currents, WEC devices (for just about anything), naval operations, oil, natural gas, seafloor microbial communities, etc. http://www.astral-arts.com/extinctions.html Nothing is off-limits except fishing and subsistence Ocean Food Harvests including the Native Tribal ancestral continuum of community food gathering. The briefing documents: California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative:  Conceptual Overview and Charter of the Blue Ribbon Task Force, are summarized. A BRTF member expressed concern about the short timeline for deadlines. Response: professional staff will be starting soon and hopefully deadlines will not be moved. The initiative partners want to see the deadlines met. Creation of a BRTF was initially stipulated in a 2004 memorandum of understanding (MOU) to which the California Resources Agency, DFG, and Resources Legacy Fund Foundation were parties. The MOU created a public-private partnership, known as the MLPA Initiative, to help the state implement the MLPA. One element of the initiative was a pilot project along the central coast (Pigeon Point in San Mateo County to Point Conception in Santa Barbara County). A second MOU was signed in December 2006 for the purpose of continuing the public-private partnership, including a task force, in the north central coast (Alder Creek in Mendocino County to Pigeon Point in San Mateo County), And an amendment to the second MOU continues the partnership through the south coast study region (Point Conception to the California-Mexico border in San Diego County, including offshore islands), through the north coast study region (California-Oregon border in Del Norte County to Alder Creek) and to begin planning in the San Francisco Bay study region (Golden Gate Bridge to Carquinez Bridge). Term: Each member of the task force shall serve for the duration of the MLPA South Coast Project, through December 2009, or until relieved of duties. Each member shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. When asked about the involvement of California State Parks in MLPA. Response: MLPA requires that State Parks have a seat on the science team, and they will be involved in discussions about and designation of marine parks. But... The "State Marine Parks" that are listed in Section 632, Title 14, were not designated by the State Parks and Recreation Commission. These "Parks" were previously listed in Section 630, Title 14, CCR, under the Commission's authority as Ecological Reserves or as the marine component of Ecological reserves or were listed in the Fish and Game Code, by the State Legislature, as Marine Life Refuges. Therefore, consultation with, and concurrence from, the State Parks and Recreation Commission as specified in Section 36725(a) of the Public Resources Code does not apply to this rulemaking. August 30, 2005 Directions to Regional Stake Holders Group from Phil Isenberg Dear Central Coast Regional Stakeholder Group members, The Blue Ribbon Task Force (BRTF) members would like to express our deep appreciation.... Finally, several of us have been queried about what might happen in the unlikely event the CCRSG should be unable to complete their work on time. If that should happen, which we doubt, the BRTF would still be obligated to meet the timelines of our mandate from Secretary Chrisman. February 9, 2006 Los Angeles: The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Dr. Barry Munitz, President and CEO for the past eight years, has decided to resign, effective immediately. In addition to Munitz, much of the Getty's senior management has left, as have several board members, including former Chairman John Biggs, who retired in early August. What is important here to note is that the J. Paul Getty trust's troubles reverberated nationally, becoming part of a national debate about oversight at non-profits and the sector's need for reform. In Oct 2006 state officials said they would not seek further penalties against the trust because they found no fraud and the misspent money was recouped when Munitz agreed to repay the Getty $250,000 and forgo more than $2 million in benefits when he was ousted in February. The attorney general has taken the unprecedented step of appointing an independent monitor - former state Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp - to make sure the $10-billion private foundation follows through on a long list of promised reforms. In addition to Munitz, much of the Getty's senior management has left, as have several board members, including former Chairman John Biggs, who retired in early August. The J. Paul Getty trust's troubles reverberated nationally, becoming part of a national debate about oversight at non-profits and the sector's need for reform. Dr. Munitz also currently is a corporate director at Sallie Mae. http://www.leedsequity.com/team.cfm?section_sub_id=5&team_id=13 Back in 1991 simultaneous to the selection of Dr. Munitz' as CSU Chancellor, then State Senator Barry Keene introduced and later passed as a Senate-Assembly Joint Concurrent resolution that would make the Chancellor of the CSU system the head (of a yet to be formed) Center for the Resolution of Environmental Disputes, under the EPA. At around the same time in 1991, MAXXAM's President, John Seidl, was selected to be a vice president of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy and by Sept. 5, 2001 he was the Environmental Program Director for the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation's first four years. Seidl resigned from MAXXAM in 1992. Endless More on John Seidl, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, ENRON, MAXXAM, The Nature Conservancy, Barry Munitz, and the California Coastal Makeover Licensing and Privatization Act - Initiative.  DOWNLOAD  82kb PDF SMASH THE MLPA-I MPA's don't protect marine resources from pollution, or oil exploration/drilling, seabed development, aquaculture, industrialization of coastal waters, or militarization, just food gathering. Astral-Arts Mendocino registered as a Mendocino County business in the Spring of 2003. All artwork, media, audio, video, projet series names and individual titles are Copyright Protected ©2004 ©2005 ©2006 ©2007 ©2008 ©2009 Author: Thomas DiFiore. All business logos and product line artwork, are marks with specific fonts used in the identification of goods/services as used in commerce, and are trademarks of the author or Astral Arts Mendocino.