The San Diego Union Tribune reported yesterday that the Pala Band purchased part of Gregory Canyon effectively ending the 25 year fight over the landfill. Purchase Price: $13 million. There will probably be no Christmas bonus this year for Pala members but hey, you got some sacred land back.
You can read the article at the link below. Shasta Gaughen said:
"“The deal includes all of Gregory Mountain — we already owned the eastern side — and all of Gregory Canyon, so that makes it impossible for there to be any sort of landfill development there,” said Shasta Gaughen, the tribe’s environmental director and historic preservation officer. “This outcome, with the tribe owning one of the most sacred sites we have — I didn't’ see it ending like this and I couldn’t be happier.”
Read the full article here:
Gregory Canyon Landfill project dead as Pala tribe buys part of land
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Shasta Gaughen In The News
Pala's environmental director, Shasta Gaughen was quoted in the news on Friday talking about Gregory Canyon.
Here is the article:
KPBS - Bad News Keeps Piling Up For North County’s Gregory Canyon Landfill
Except:
Gregory Canyon itself is considered sacred ground by the Pala Indians. KPBS "Morning Edition's" Deb Welsh spoke to Pala's environmental director, Shasta Gaughen, about the Corps’ action.
KPBS: What do you make of the corps' withdrawal of the application permit?
Shasta Gaughen: This is just another sign that the financial situation for Gregory Canyon Ltd. has just gotten that much worse. They've been promising they're getting new financing for the last six to nine months and obviously that financing hasn't come through, which is why the application got pulled.
KPBS: What do you expect to happen next or do you have any idea?
Shasta Gaughen: We're not sure what's going to happen. Our hope is that there will be no future financing, which means that the project won't move forward.
I know that Gregory Canyon Ltd. has said that they're still trying to secure financing. If that happens they may reactivate the application. If they do, we will continue to oppose it they way we have from the beginning. And if not, then we'll celebrate finally putting the final nail in the coffin.
Read Full Article Here - KPBS - Bad News Keeps Piling Up For North County’s Gregory Canyon Landfill
Here is the article:
KPBS - Bad News Keeps Piling Up For North County’s Gregory Canyon Landfill
Except:
Gregory Canyon itself is considered sacred ground by the Pala Indians. KPBS "Morning Edition's" Deb Welsh spoke to Pala's environmental director, Shasta Gaughen, about the Corps’ action.
KPBS: What do you make of the corps' withdrawal of the application permit?
Shasta Gaughen: This is just another sign that the financial situation for Gregory Canyon Ltd. has just gotten that much worse. They've been promising they're getting new financing for the last six to nine months and obviously that financing hasn't come through, which is why the application got pulled.
KPBS: What do you expect to happen next or do you have any idea?
Shasta Gaughen: We're not sure what's going to happen. Our hope is that there will be no future financing, which means that the project won't move forward.
I know that Gregory Canyon Ltd. has said that they're still trying to secure financing. If that happens they may reactivate the application. If they do, we will continue to oppose it they way we have from the beginning. And if not, then we'll celebrate finally putting the final nail in the coffin.
Read Full Article Here - KPBS - Bad News Keeps Piling Up For North County’s Gregory Canyon Landfill
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Pala, Bill Horn, and Gregory Canyon
San Diego Reader - Pala Indians battle against Bill Horn - Gambling tribe fighting nearby trash dump has spent secretly in past
By Matt Potter, April 25, 2014
By Matt Potter, April 25, 2014
It's a strange-bedfellows tale of trash and casino chips.
The Pala Band of Mission Indians and their affiliated entity Pala Casino came up with $20,000 on April 23 for a campaign committee calling itself Citizens Against Career Inside Politician Bill Horn for Supervisor 2014, run by Service Employees International Union Local 221, representing county workers. Horn is running against Oceanside mayor and fellow Republican Jim Wood.
This isn't the first financial foray by the tribe into county politics, motivated by its number-one land-use cause: halting the Gregory Canyon solid waste facility, a massive landfill being developed by San Diego lobbyist Nancy Chase, widow of project originator Richard Chase.
In November 2012, a group called USA PAC out of Kalamazoo, Michigan, undertook a mysteriously funded $30,000 direct-mail campaign on behalf of then-candidate for county supervisor Dave Roberts.
Originally known as the Congressional Elections PAC, the political action committee had been linked by Mother Jones to conservative Texas construction giant Leo Linbeck, III. Earlier in 2012, the committee had backed Republican Tea Party candidates in Texas and Tennessee, raising questions about why it had chosen Roberts, a Democrat, for its political largesse.
It wasn't until November 20, after the campaign was over with Roberts the victor, that USA PAC was required by federal law to file a campaign disclosure statement. It showed the source of funds for the pro-Roberts mail campaign to be the Pala Band, though no one with the tribe would comment, and the PAC was closed-mouthed as well.
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