By Kristen BolePublished: July, 2006 The Oakland City Council has given a green light to the controversial Oak to 9th development project on the city’s waterfront just south of Jack London Square. The project, which aims to convert 64 acres of unusable maritime land into a mixed-use waterfront neighborhood, landed the approval after five years […]
By Sejal Choksi, Baykeeper and Program DirectorPublished: December, 2008 Unfortunately, we at San Francisco Baykeeper have come to expect that the winter months also bring something less pleasant: sewage spills in San Francisco Bay. One cause of sewage spills to the Bay is the rain we get in the winter; during heavy rains, water seeps […]
Published: February, 2014 Last November, the Port of Oakland celebrated the completion of a shore-to-ship power grid that provides electricity to docked vessels. Until then, vessels burned diesel to maintain power while docked. Now, vessels can shut down their engines and plug into the port’s power infrastructure. This was just one of the changes […]
