Questions and Answers about the NCRA
By former NCRA commissioner Bernie Meyers
2021
Consultant in NCRA Rail Takeover Bid Says Project Has Been Misrepresented, But Document Reveals Coal Connections and Wiyot Tribe Involvement
Lost Coast Outpost, September 28, 2021
Utah port Authority Memos Reveal Coal Industry Ties to Coal Train Specter
Salt Lake Tribune, September 25, 2021
Is Coal Industry Behind Secretive Plan to Preserve a Defunct California Railroad
Salt Lake Tribune, September 9, 2021
Aiming to Ship Coal Out of Humboldt Bay, Shadowy Corporation Makes Bid to Take Over NCRA Line
Lost Coast Outpost, September 2, 2021
2018
Friends of the Eel River Cautiously Optimistic About Great Redwood Trail Act
It’s Official: Senator Mike McGuire Introduces ‘Great Redwood Trail Act’
All the Fight Has Gone Out of the North Coast Railroad Authority
North Coast Rail Agency Faulted by State Commission for Vague Financial Plan
The NCRA’s ‘Plan’: A Grifter’s Pitch for Suckers
2017
Hazardous Tankers Here to Stay
2016
SMART Prevents More Deliveries of Gas-Filled Cars to Schellville
Officials Raise Alarm Over 2.4 Million Gallons of Flammable Gas Parked in Rail Cars South of Sonoma
2015
Farm Bureaus Jump into Supreme Court High-Speed Rail Case
State Owned NCRA Asserts its Right to Ignore State Law
Rail Case Heading for State Supreme Court
2013
NCRA Directory Gives Agency a Withering Indictment on his Way Out the Door
Bernie Meyer’s Farewell Report
Highspeed Rail Agency Says Federal Law Trumps State Environmental Rules
The Disappearing Railroad Blues
North Coast Railroad Authority Goes Rogue
CEQA Key to Holding Railroad Authority Accountable
2012
North Coast Railroad Director: Lets Stop Throwing Money Down a Black Hole
Why NCRA Needs Help With Lease Negotiations
2011
North Coast Railroad Authority: ‘We Dont Have To Follow Your Laws’
2009
Toxic Cleanup Must Come Before Freight
2008
Railroad Proposals Under Scrutiny
2007
Freight Trains Raise Ruckus in Novato
2006