What's New

Attend our Special Event "An afternoon of Conversations — On The Edge" on March 21 and learn about the danger of earthquakes in Strawberry Canyon...read more

March 12, 2010: The California Court of Appeals reversed a previous Alameda Superior Court judgement that would have required the Regents to recirculate part of their Environmental Impact Report on construction projects in Strawberry Canyon for possible revisions. From the Court of Appeals website:

The judgment is reversed and the trial court is instructed to enter, consistent with this opinion, a new and different judgment denying plaintiffs' petition for writ of mandate. The Regents are entitled to recover their costs on appeal.

March 15, 2010 is the deadline for submitting comments on LBNL's Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the construction of a new 43,000 gross square foot General Purpose Laboratory in the upper watershed of Strawberry Creek in a landslide area. See PDF copies of the call for comments and the EIR. Read more about the General Purpose Laboratory here.

Will Berkeley Be the Next Haiti? Read an article by Steven Newton, a project director for the National Center for Science Education, on the Huffington Post.

March, 2010: Read Phila Rogers' Late Winter Musings on the Hill at the Lawrence Hall of Science website.

February 23, 2010: An appeal on the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Lab's 2006 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) was heard by a three judge panel in the 1st District, Division 4, in San Francisco...read more

February 9, 2010: We sent a letter expressing our strong support of FEMA's decision to do a more thorough environmental review of the proposed vegetation management project in the East Bay Hills. The letter was sent to Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security. You can read the letter here.

February 4, 2010: New Videos: We've posted two new videos on YouTube. In these videos (one a shorter version of the other) Dr. Ignacio Chapela, associate professor of Environmental Science at UC Berkeley introduces the dangers caused by unstable areas above the campus, and Dr. Garniss Curtis, Professor Emeritus in the Department Earth and Planetary Science, explains that a collapsed crater or caldera of an old volcano containing unstable soil underlies many of the laboratory buildings above the UC Berkeley campus. He emphasizes how dangerous this might be in the event of the expected earthquake on the nearby Hayward Fault.

January 20, 2010: You can now read a 2008 letter to the UC Regents written by UC Professor Emeritus Garniss Curtis of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science recommending that no major buildings of any kind should be constructed in Strawberry and Blackberry canyons. In the letter Dr. Curtis explains the nature and origin of the unstable conditions of these canyons.

January 20, 2010: The UC Board of Regents approved revised plans to build a new home for the Helios Energy Research Facility in a five-story building to be constructed west of the central Berkeley campus. Read the UC press release for more information.

January 15, 2010: We delivered a letter to the UC Regents asking them to consider not only the seismic situation under the Stadium in their environmental review, but also the geological conditions eastward of it. Impact analysis of the unstable caldera (volcano cavity) above the Stadium has not been included so far. Read it here.

December 15, 2009: We delivered a letter to LBNL expressing our concern about the chain-link fences that are found in many areas of Strawberry Canyon. Read it here.

Older News
See our list of documents, our description of the threats to Strawberry Canyon, and the legal actions that have been taken to stop these threats.

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