Tag Archives: Bay fill

GO Giants! GO AWAY Cargill!

The Phillies weren’t the only out-of-towners that were dealt a blow yesterday. As Giants fans were filing into AT&T Park, just before the Giants/Phillies NLCS game on the beautiful Bay shoreline, a banner was flying over the stadium telling Cargill and their luxury developer, DMB Associates, not to pave our precious San Francisco Bay. Fans [...]

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Dead End Ahead for Cargill

Sign the petition to stop Cargill and help us meet the goal to get 5,000 signatures by spreading the word to your friends! Things keep getting worse and worse for Cargill and their Arizona-based luxury homes developer in their attempt to fill in 1,436 acres of San Francisco Bay salt ponds. Not only have more [...]

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Cargill developer “myths” debunked

Recent blog and Twitter posts by Cargill’s Redwood City developer DMB state, “there’s been a lot of misinformation and half-truths being circulated out there.” No kidding. Openly concerned about the attention being paid to their unprecedented plans to build a new city in the Bay, the increasingly desperate developer is clumsily attempting to erase many [...]

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In the zone

by Stephen Knight, Political Director You might have heard about the Pacific Institute’s recent report, “The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast,” which states that a half a million current California residents and $100 billion of the state’s infrastructure will be in the inundation zone by 2100. If you haven’t heard – read [...]

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The fight goes on

by Stephen Knight, Political Director Originally posted on November 5, 2008 Because Cargill’s developer DMB spent nearly $2 million in just three months (or more than $150 for every vote in their favor) in a community of 75,000 residents, we are disappointed, but not surprised that Redwood City’s Measure W did not pass yesterday. Measure [...]

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