About Us

This website was created with contributions from the following Humboldt-based organizations: the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), Humboldt Waterkeeper, the Redwood Climate & Community Resilience (CORE) Hub, and the Blue Lake Rancheria. Its purpose is to inform local residents, organizations, and other interested parties about the details of the proposed project, as well as the potential benefits, costs, and risks associated with the plan. Our organizations take the threat of climate change seriously, and, for that reason, also take the consideration of offshore wind energy development off the North Coast seriously. As we closely track offshore wind development, we have seen false claims proliferate about the benefits and impacts of offshore wind. Sorting fact from fiction can be hard, as fossil fuel companies and other vested interests engage in a misinformation campaign to slow action to address the climate crisis. This website combines our research with direct links to relevant, substantive, trustworthy science, to help you learn and make up your mind for yourself. 

 

Founded in 1977, EPIC advocates for the science-based protection and restoration of Northwest California’s forests, rivers, and wildlife with an integrated approach combining public education, citizen advocacy, and strategic litigation.

 

Founded in 2004, Humboldt Waterkeeper (formerly Humboldt Baykeeper) works to safeguard our coastal resources for the health, enjoyment, and economic strength of the Humboldt Bay community through education, scientific research, and enforcement of laws to fight pollution.

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Founded in 2021, the Redwood CORE Hub is a community organization headquartered at the Humboldt Area Foundation in Bayside, CA, with a mission to help solve the climate emergency, and act with urgency to transition our built and natural systems to become both decarbonized and resilient at the same time. To do this important work, CORE supports deep community engagement, expert technical assistance, and centers equity by ensuring benefits accrue to underrepresented and marginalized communities first and to the greatest extent.​​

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The Blue Lake Rancheria is a federally recognized Native American tribe in northwestern California, near the cities of Eureka and Arcata, five miles inland from the Pacific Coast, along California Highway 299. Within the aboriginal territory of the Wiyot people, the Blue Lake Rancheria was founded in 1908 as a ‘refuge for homeless Indians.’ The Tribe was terminated in 1958, and then reinstated to federal recognition status in 1983. Since then, the Tribe has made a concerted effort to rebuild. Today, the Tribe has 100 acres of land in trust and thriving economic enterprises that support hundreds of local jobs, government operations and programs, economic diversification, resilience and sustainability efforts, environmental protection, and a wide array of social services. The Blue Lake Rancheria strives each day to secure a better future for its people; protect its sovereignty and heritage; learn from the past; and build a resilient, healthy economy and environment, with benefits for the Tribe, the region, and the planet. Since 2002 the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe has accelerated transition to a zero-carbon community, for its economic, environmental, health, and overall resilience benefits. The Tribe takes a “lifeline sector” approach to achieving zero-carbon sustainability and resilience. Lifeline sectors include: energy, water, food, communication/IT, and transportation. Through local, regional, state, national, and public/private partnerships – and sound planning and policy that pairs climate mitigation and adaptation in decision-making – the Tribe is exceeding its sustainability and resilience goals:

• Reduce and levelize operational costs (lifeline sector operations and infrastructure).

• Create economic opportunity, including new jobs in the “decarbonized marketplace.”

• Achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2030.