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Ms. McLaughlin, 58, has supported green initiatives like solar-panel installations, while opposing an expansion of a Chevron refinery and the construction of a casino at Richmond's Point Molate — which her opponents say would have created more jobs.
Fiscal Strains Crowd Out Social Issues Vauhini Vara 2010
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On the winning side were local activists of Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate and the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which includes the Green Party Mayor of this low-income, predominantly African-American and Hispanic city of just over 100,000.
David Helvarg: A Green Victory in Richmond, California David Helvarg 2010
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On the winning side were local activists of Citizens For a Sustainable Point Molate and the Richmond Progressive Alliance that includes the Green Party Mayor of this low-income predominantly African-American and Hispanic city of just over 100,000.
David Helvarg: Richmond California's Green Victory David Helvarg 2010
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The Richmond-based Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate claimed the agreement "threw Richmond under the gambling bus," and released a letter from twenty other Bay Area environmental groups opposed to the casino, calling instead for a world-class park at the point similar to San Francisco's Presidio and Marin County's Fort Baker.
David Helvarg: Richmond California's Green Victory David Helvarg 2010
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While the recent elections were seen as a setback for national environmental advocates, for the small city of Richmond in San Francisco's East Bay, it marked a tidal shift in a seven-year battle to protect Point Molate, the last large undeveloped headland on the bay from a mega-casino.
David Helvarg: A Green Victory in Richmond, California David Helvarg 2010
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Point Molate contains a historic wine port (with a brick castle) that later became part of a Navy fuel oil depot before the Navy sold it to the city for a dollar in 2003.
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While our recession and addiction-plagued city and state already have dozens of casinos, there's only one undeveloped headland left on the West Coast's largest estuary that could be a local and world center for natural ecosystem services, youth recreation, education, jobs and opportunities if we reject the reckless development patterns of the past and work to create a Point Molate Park on San Francisco Bay.
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The Richmond-based Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate claimed the agreement "threw Richmond under the gambling bus," and released a letter from twenty other Bay Area environmental groups opposed to the Casino, calling instead for a world-class park at the point similar to San Francisco's Presidio and Marin County's Fort Baker.
David Helvarg: A Green Victory in Richmond, California David Helvarg 2010
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Along with the city land transfer Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar would have to agree to convert Point Molate into reservation land for urban gaming.
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One concern has been that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would have to agree to convert Point Molate into reservation land for a small tribal band with no anthropological links to the Bay Area a legal requirement.
David Helvarg: A Green Victory in Richmond, California David Helvarg 2010
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