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No Methanol Monday! Speak Up to Oppose the Climate-Wrecking Kalama Methanol Project
Washington leaders are set to make a consequential choice by 2021. Will the state deny or approve a massive fracked gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama, WA? Take action and urge Washington to deny Kalama Methanol
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Press Release: Youth Activists Deliver Letter to Governor Brown, Oregon Department of Energy from 14 Organizations, Demanding Action Against Major Fracked Gas Project
The letter, signed by 14 organizations, was delivered in person by a group of activists from 350PDX and Sunrise Movement PDX during a socially-distanced, masked, COVID-19-safe visibility event with hand-painted banners that read “Gov Brown: no new fracked gas power plant” and “the climate crisis is here.”
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Press Release: Developer Violated Oregon Law By Breaking Ground on Major Fracked Gas Project
Columbia Riverkeeper filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue under the Clean Water Act alleging that the developer of the proposed 415-MW Perennial Wind Chaser fracked gas power plant near Umatilla, OR, violated Oregon law when it began construction on a road for the project without having first obtained a key construction stormwater permit.
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Conservation groups say state regulators are allowing power plant developers to avoid carbon fees
Oregonian: Opponents of a proposed power plant in Umatilla County say state regulators are poised to allow construction of a “road to nowhere” that would allow the plant’s backers to avoid paying millions of dollars in extra fees under a strengthened global warming standard established this spring by Gov. Kate Brown.
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Thousands Urge Washington to Reject Methanol Refinery in Kalama
Over 30 community organizations representing tens of thousands of people from across the Northwest urged the Washington Department of Ecology and Governor Jay Inslee to deny the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed in Kalama, Washington.
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Press Release: Community Members Urge Washington to Reject Kalama Methanol Refinery In Virtual Hearing
Out of the dozens of people who testified, the vast majority of people hammered on the proposed refinery’s enormous potential carbon pollution impact, over 4.6 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year—making it one of Washington’s largest sources of climate pollution if built.
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December 12, 2018: “Methane Leaks Plague Natural Gas Facilities—Why Are They So Underreported?”
Nov. 15, 2018: “World’s Largest Fracked-Gas-to-Methanol Refinery Must Be Stopped: Submit a Comment Today!”
Nov. 7, 2018: “Taxpayers may soon be on the hook for a $2 billion fracked gas refinery”
Oct. 31, 2018: “Tacoma and Tideflats’ future take center stage at LNG hearing, council meeting”
October 30, 2018: “Hundreds gather to speak during public hearing on proposed LNG plant”
Sept. 1, 2018: “The Oregon Department of Energy Recommends Denying Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas Project an Exemption”
July 19, 2018: “PSE’s gas plant studies have ‘significant technical issues,’ Puyallup tribe’s experts allege”
May 11, 2018: “Tacoma LNG plant has ‘potentially significant’ permitting issues. Opening could be delayed”
April 12, 2018: “A massive pipeline is being planned in Oregon. But local landowners won’t go down without a fight.”
March 8, 2018: “The Next Standing Rock? A Pipeline Battle Looms in Oregon”
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