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Con: Kalama methanol plant has no place in Washington’s clean-energy future

November 6, 2019 by webmaster Leave a Comment

By Paul Thiers and Dan Serres

Special to The Seattle Times

Will the Washington state Department of Ecology approve or deny a massive new fossil-fuel project on the Columbia River? The obvious answer is deny, especially for a state leading the way on climate action.

A fossil-fuel corporation called Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) seeks to upend Washington’s efforts to combat climate change by building the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama. The corporation has made startling, misleading claims, asserting the highly-polluting project will somehow benefit our climate. We are encouraging the Department of Ecology to cut through the company’s false claims and deny the project.

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