Ecology will soon decide whether the project can move forward. These recommendations were not adequately addressed in the final report. Ecology also questioned NWIW's claim that the methanol would never be burned as fuel, even prior to the release of NWIW's investor documents showing how the company intended to sell methanol for fuel. Last December, the Washington Department of Ecology submitted comments on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement, noting a number of deficiencies, particularly that it failed to sufficiently and accurately study a mitigation package, production alternatives, or the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of the project. Landowners on the pipeline route have already received notice that the company could use eminent domain to take their land. In addition to climate and health impacts, the methanol refinery would require a new pipeline to carry fracked gas. Whether for fuel or for plastic, NWIW’s project will have a tremendously negative impact on the river and our climate." "The EIS dodges the refinery’s greenhouse gas impacts by relying on cherry-picked studies, outdated information, and deceiving the public and regulators about the use of the methanol. "The report released today is dramatically misleading," said Dan Serres, Conservation Director of Columbia Riverkeeper. The refinery would consume a stunning amount of fracked gas-and become Washington’s largest greenhouse gas polluter by 2025. The refinery faces significant opposition from local communities and Governor Jay Inslee because it threatens public health and the climate. The report, commissioned by Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW), the company behind the proposal, dramatically downplays the climate impacts of the proposed refinery. Stay tuned for details and next steps on the EIS.Īug(Kalama, WA)-Today, the Port of Kalama and Cowlitz County released their final supplemental environmental impact statement for the world’s largest fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed for Kalama, WA. Join us in signing our petition to the Washington Department of Ecology urging the agency to deny the Kalama methanol refinery. Soon, the Washington Department of Ecology will have to make its final decision on the project. In May, Governor Inslee announced his opposition to the Kalama methanol refinery. Multiple studies show that fracking releases a much higher proportion of climate-wrecking methane gas into our atmosphere than the EIS acknowledges. The EIS grossly underestimates the project’s methane pollution.
The company continues to pretend its methanol won’t be burned for fuel even though NWIW was caught telling potential investors the methanol could be used for fuel, and the Washington Department of Ecology said the EIS should address fuel as a potential end use of NWIW’s methanol.The company continues to rely on its discredited, unsupported, and unenforceable theory that methanol from Kalama will “displace” methanol made from coal in China. Washington’s people and leaders know better. NWIW’s plan to combat climate change is: extract and export more fossil fuel.That means four decades of fracking, fossil fuel consumption, and tremendous quantities of climate-changing pollution. The report says that Northwest Innovation Works’ (NWIW) Kalama refinery would operate for 40 years. We have a choice: fracked gas or clean technology.Read our press release below and tell the Washington Department of Ecology to reject the fracked gas-to-methanol refinery: Take Action. The report, developed by backers of the project, dramatically downplays the climate impacts of the proposed refinery. In case you need some summer reading this Labor Day weekend, the 194-page Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Kalama methanol refinery was released today. Power Past Fracked Gas Rally, February 2019, photo by Ale Blakely.
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