Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility Second Supplemental EIS

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Comment From: Sam Kern

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Sam [inaudible]. I find this SEIS insufficiently convincing. As the presentation speaker noted, global demand over 40 years is very hard to predict, and I'm skeptical that we can rely on current market conditions to hold stable. Within...↓

Similarly, BlackRock Investments is encouraging investors to move away from emissive industries. Years ago, these announcements coming from some of the largest and most risk-averse players in the global economy would have been completely unthinkable. The climate, [chuckles] I guess- excuse the pun- is changing really fast.

Due to activist pressure changing market conditions and changing global priorities, these announcements are coming faster and faster. With Google announcing only last week that their operations would be fully carbon-free by 2030; something that only the year prior they refused to commit to. So, I'm really skeptical that we can rely on the projections in the SEIS of demand to hold stable over a 40-year period, when we can't even predict what the largest global players will do within a one-year time frame.

Another commenter pointed out that this would set a dangerous precedent in the region. I completely agree. This facility would establish a foothold in the region for further natural gas infrastructure. I think this is the wrong precedent to set. This facility wouldn't spin up tomorrow. This is an investment and it represents an investment in the wrong path for both our state and for the planet.

I also want to weigh-in on the topic of mitigation. I did read Appendix D of the SEIS that purports to detail the mitigation plan, and I see no plan other than purchasing carbon offsets. This does nothing to mitigate the effects of this project on the Washington local environment. You cannot mitigate the effects of cancer-causing chemicals emitted locally, and you can't mitigate the enormous water dependency of such a facility. So forgive me for being uninspired by this non-existent mitigation plan. Thank you.
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Comment From: Laura Rogers

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Greetings. I'm Laura Rogers, an attorney who practiced law for more than 30 years. I live in Portland, a mere 40 miles south of the site where the proposed Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility would be located. As a fourth-generation Orego...↓

The proposal to be sited in earthquake country would; one, pollute the air with cancer-causing emissions; two, emit 4.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year for 40 years; and three, each day use millions of gallons of water from an aquifer connected to the Columbia River. I join countless other citizens in standing in fervent opposition to the proposal.

Others have articulated the many flaws in the proposal and the SSEIS. Here, I touch on just one key concern. We must not put the profit of private investors over the inevitable damage this proposal would cause to our environment, which proposal would actually accelerate the use of fossil fuels. Ecology must face the risks of this proposal head-on, and not rely on a speculative market-based analysis that compares the proposal with vague alternatives. All of the high-carbon paths are unacceptable. A low-carbon future demands that we make investments in lower-emitting processes.

I'd like to say that the work of those of you in Ecology are doing on this proposal is vitally important for our region. You have the opportunity to seize the opportunity to make a difference. Thank you.
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Comment From: Thomas Gordon

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Thank you. The proposed Kalama Methanol Refinery is a bad idea; from being an explosive danger to Kalama, to creating a potentially huge amount of greenhouse gases released. If an earthquake destroyed a filled storage tank or tanks at the completed K...↓

Kalama, Washington and the surrounding area has a huge earthquake risk, with a total of 598 earthquake since 1931 alone. Another USGS database shows that there is a 33% chance of a major earthquake, 5.0 magnitude or above, within 31 miles of Kalama, Washington within the next 50 years. The largest known earthquake within 30 miles of Kalama, Washington was a 4.4 magnitude in 1980. No one knows where all the faults are in the area. In fact, one reason among others, the Trojan Nuclear Reactor, six-tenths of a mile from Kalama, was closed down due to a fault being discovered beneath the reactor.

The refinery would have an incoming feeder gas line, which would provide methane used to create the methanol. An earthquake could rapture this gas line or the main supply line or any of the other gas lines in the area. Together, these gas lines would be another source of greenhouse gases and explosions. The Kalama Methanol Refinery should not be built. My wife would like to comment, too.
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Comment From: Denise Banker

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
My name is Denise Banker and I live in Port Townsend, Washington. Thank you for this opportunity to testify against the Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Public Hearing. I call on Ecology to do the right thing for the people and the planet in vo...↓

Why is this specific issue important to me? Overall, this is a spherical planet, we breathe the same air, we all depend on the earth stability and its ability to support life. I am particularly tired of witnessing billion-dollar companies obfuscate data and future speculation and mitigation schemes to hoodwink busy and underpaid regulators. It's unfortunate that Ecology's current study relies on speculative mitigation and an unenforceable market analysis to paper over the impacts of this nerdy climate wrecking proposal.

Here, it's why Ecology needs to reject Northwest Innovation Works dubious proposal. The people don't want the proposal approved. We know the hazards associated with fracking gas, we know carbon emissions drive global climate change. We know methane leaks are underestimated in this proposal. We know that cost benefit analysis do not take into consideration all the healthcare, loss of livelihood, infrastructure and insurance costs associated with noxious air, rising sea levels, intensified storms and fire seasons. This project is not in keeping with Washington State's clean air goals.

This company has consistently made false, misleading, and dubious claims. I call on Ecology to reject Northwest Innovations Works proposal to build the largest fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery in the world. We don't need any more greenhouse gas producing energy systems. We don't need expansion of fossil fuel development and production, we need to focus solely on expansion of sustainable, renewable, clean energy systems that don't use fossil fuels.
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Comment From: Cynthia Svensson

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Good morning. I'm Cynthia Swenson, a homeowner in Kalama, Washington. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment. The SSEIS repeatedly assumes an expanding market for methanol. If this is true, then the Kalama facility is adding to emissions,...↓

The study states that " Within China, there is likely a preference for expanding domestic production where feasible and so expanded low-cost, coal-based methanol is expected to make up the largest share of increased methanol supplies in the coming year." We see that this is actually, most likely that any replacement would be in the important methanol sector, which is far more expensive than the Chinese coal sector, and only slightly more expensive and produces only slightly more GHGs than the Kalama facility. It's evident that the Kalama facility is most likely to add a huge amount of GHG to the atmosphere with only a remote chance that it will decrease GHG at all, so please deny this permit on the basis of your own research study. Thank you.
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Comment From: Kelly O'Hanley

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Kelly O'Hanley. I thank you for this opportunity. Actually, I have someone right here with me who is anxious to talk. [mimics] Please do. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm [inaudible] fugitive methane emission. Usually, I'm floating ar...↓

For example, they're saying that methane emissions- meaning me- are being underestimated; that we need top-down not just bottom-up measurements. I love those terms. I would think they'd have come from Scientific American or Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. But seriously, enough is enough. I say let's stick with the EIS's very optimistic methane calculations. After all, doesn't the world need a little bit of optimism right now? Well, of course, it does. Oh, dear. I'm turning back into gas. I'm glad we chatted. Stay in touch. Stay optimistic.

Well, this is Kelly O'Hanley, again. I guess I don't have much to add to that. Thank you very much.
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Comment From: Linda Leonard

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
This is very good. Linda Leonard, I am a resident of Kalama. Northwest Innovation Works states it will voluntary mitigate 100% of all in-state direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State. As for being voluntary, offset carbon emi...↓

Footnote 40 on D2 reads; NWIW is undertaking research, how to configure and account for the voluntary mitigation program, including consideration of forming an independent non-profit arm to administer the funds. Additional conditions and required fulfillment documentation will be developed in coordination with Cowlitz County and the Department of Ecology following the completion of the environmental review of the facility.

The citizens of this state are being excluded from knowing anything more about the voluntary mitigation program framework. How can the public make their analysis in regard to this project? Northwest Innovation Works identifies no specific projects or measures that will address the enormous greenhouse gas pollution's impact. Please deny this permit. Thank you.
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Comment From: Mike Reuter

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
All right. Thank you for letting me speak here today. I am speaking here as an individual and not as a Mayor of Kalama. I want to just address the jobs aspect of this refinery. No matter what gets built at the site, it will provide jobs. Whether it i...↓

The short term construction jobs will be mostly for putting the infrastructure in and erecting the refinery when it arrives from China. That is why the project uses a short less than two year construction window to be constructed. If this company really cared about construction jobs, they would build a refinery here and not in another place. That way you employ hundreds more local union workers and for a longer term employment.

How can we make sure that this plant is built and inspected and licensed by quality workers using quality components. For long-term employment metrics. we need to look no farther than Woodland, the nearest port to Kalama. This port has a five person per acre minimum standard for industrial development. The Kalama refinery even with the over-exaggerated full buildout of 200 employees will provide only approximately one job per acre which includes the footprint from the refinery and the 90 acres needed for mitigation.

We should look for multiple value added light industrial manufacturing companies for this site and not keep forcing another speculative fossil fuel product that would lock us into long-term emission production. The jobs created for these multiple manufacturing companies would also diversify the property tax and jobs provided and not on one highly volatile commodity market. The site is one of the last Greenfield deep water port properties in the Columbia. That's it. Thank you.
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Comment From: Richard Voget

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Can you hear me? My name is Richard Vogget and I am a life long resident of Washington State. I feel that it's immoral to enable preventable time of death. The IPPC says that to limit warming to to 1.5 degrees centigrade, climate emissions must fall ...↓

You are the Department of Ecology, your own goal is achieving Washington's climate goals, not undermining them by allowing more climate pollution. The voluntary mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that 100% of the project's in state emission in the [inaudible] will be mitigated. You just admitted in this morning's presentation with half of the projects emissions that are from British Columbia and China will not be mitigated.

Severe conditions will warm the atmosphere, dry out the forests, lead to bigger wildfires and fill Western Washington with smoke from unhealthy air quality as well as create hotter and longer heat waves. Mitigation can [inaudible] over a long period of time. 4.6 million tons of pollution today can be mitigated on paper by planting enough trees, but it will take 40 years for the trees to be able to [inaudible] emissions will increase in the short term and if climate change isn't addressed in the short-term, one of those is going to become irreversible.

If emissions don't fall by 45% by 2030. Don't allow more climate pollution which will cause hotter and longer heat waves. Do enable the [inaudible] to die in heat waves. People's--
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Comment From: Dr. Ann Turner

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Dr. Ann Turner. Please deny Kalama's Shoreline permit to prevent environmental injustice to Kalama and Cowlitz County residents from climate change. I come to this work for my work as a physician caring for migrant and seasonal farm wo...↓

The SSCIS states that the Kalama project would result in the emission of 4.6 tons of greenhouse gases every year for 40 years. This displacement theory is pure speculation. We know that climate change has a disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations. Kalama and Cowlitz County residents are the most vulnerable. Using Washington tracking networks, vulnerability to climate change index Kalama has an index of seven and nearby Longview 10 with 10 being the highest.

Cowlitz County experiences significant socio-economic and health disparities including lower median income and higher percentage of persons living in poverty than Washington State as a whole. The County's health disparities include a higher age-adjusted mortality in higher mortality from cancer, heart lung disease and diabetes. The negative impacts of climate change will have an outsized effect on the residence of Kalama and Cowlitz County. We must not authorize any new fossil fuel projects.

Methane, fracked gas, methanol is not bridge fuel, it's not even a bridge to nowhere. It's a bridge to climate and human disaster and results in environmental great environmental injustice. Please deny this permit and this project. Thank you.
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Comment From: Marrene Jenkins

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hello, I’m Marine Jenkins and I appreciate all that has been said. Many of the negative commentators, thank you very much and strictly to the direct subject greenhouse gases, but there's no greenhouse pollution. If we have ground zero here in Kalama ...↓

The commissioners are often re-designating over the 12 years that I've lived here as suits their economic need but if they build this concentrated plant, I as a former nurse formerly living in the Midwest and seeing grey skies know the clouds of pollution and its effects on the respiratory system. You can't adjust for listening to the whistling sound of the lungs and seeing the faces of anxiety when an asthma person comes in distress.

You can't deny that the rustling sounds of the lungs when a person has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many of the doctors who have commented before know what these are, nurses know what they are. It doesn't exist here because it's a clean state. Don't change, keep this plant on.
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Comment From: Adam Davis

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
 As stated, my name is Adam Davis and I live in Castle Rock, Washington with my wife and three children. While a lot of you have heard from me in the past, as recent as last week, I thought it was important for me to take time to give additional...↓

Several opponents to this project have asked, what if the analysis uses a higher methane leakage rate? Ecology use a 3% leakage rate as required by the environmentalists, and lo and behold, the plant will still result in a global reduction of 5.48 million tonnes of GHGs annually. Another popular question. What if the methanol is used as fuel instead of olefin production?

While this is not the project's intent, Ecology's study found that if 100% of the methanol produced of the proposed facility was used as fuel, we would still see a reduction in global GHGs annually to the tune of 6.7 million tons per year.

Lastly, the opposition has attacked supporters of the project claiming we are only interested in the jobs and we are ignoring the bigger picture. To that I say, we now have two studies before us that prove just how beneficial this project is for Washington and the globe. With this project, we can have a greener future, increase local tax revenue, and 1,000 plus jobs that will help people like me from the trades, reduce our own carbon footprint by cutting down on our everyday commutes to other communities or even out of state. Let's take this win together. Thank you for your time, and I urge you to please approve this final permit.
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Comment From: Jeff Berskin

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Jeff Berskin. I have been a resident of Cowlitz County for 44 years with my wife and two daughters. I have worked in the piping industry for 25 of those years, and on many projects across the United States. Our local jobs that pay a li...↓

If we do not have a place like this world-class facility that is regulated by the best in the industry for safety and near-zero emissions, we are not leaving much for our future generation to contribute to our society in terms of tax revenue, for all the things that the general public benefits from. I would also like to state as an avid outdoorsman and a steward of our land, there's no proven science, just speculation from unfounded sources that it's going to harm the environment.

The world cannot achieve its goal of keeping global warming well below two degrees Celsius by taking a not in my backyard approach to carbon reductions. Opponents want their kayaks, their tents, their fleece jackets, their automobiles, computers, and airplanes made up synthetic material, and they want other countries to produce that material in the dirtiest possible ways. That is the recipe for failure to achieve climate change goals.

In closing, I would like to see this project approved to move forward because it is the beginning of an end of growth for our future generations if it's denied. Thank you for your time.
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Comment From: Cameron Wilkinson

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hello, my name is Cameron Wilkinson. I was raised in Kelso and live in Kelso. I'm a third-generation steamfitter with United Association Local 26. My wife and I have two sons, 11 and 14. My grandfather moved his family here in 1976 from Southern Cali...↓

The Cowlitz County area was a flourishing community for a blue-collar worker to raise their family with a great wage and benefits. It's unfortunate to see a small community and the impacts we've seen from the closing of production facilities like RNW paper and Reynolds Metal Company. We continue to see a decline in our family-wage jobs in this community with the Uberization of their industries.

It is unfortunate to see a project that is leading their industry globally with an environmental conscious approach being demonized with miss. The next leaders in Olefin production is 38% more polluting in Northwest Innovations proposed facility. We could turn our back on in NWIW, and have this other leader polluting our oceans from another country or we can embrace their continued work on improving this facility.

It's sad not to get the same shake in life as the past generation when they try to create an infinite loop on a stopwatch on permitting a project, but don't bat an eye at an 80-year-old dilapidated facility the next generation is constantly putting band-aids on daily in my industry. Thank you for letting me take the time to comment on this. Thank you.
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Comment From: Kate Martin

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
 Hi, I'm Kate Martin. I live in Kalama. I've been lucky enough to live here just for a short while. We moved here because it's a very small rural area and it's one of the things we were looking for when we came here. What I hear regularly from o...↓

One of the things Kalama looks to be doing is heightening its tourism attraction. Somehow I'm thinking a huge plant right on the river sucking up millions of gallons of water a day is not a tourist attraction. I for one would never come to see a huge plant on the river. We do fish quite often and enjoy having our boat out on the river. [sound cut]
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Comment From: Jack Miller

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
 My name is Jack Miller. I'm from Oregon City and I support this project wholeheartedly. Union jobs are key to building equity in our community for our children's future and with COVID, we need jobs more than we've ever needed them before. Thank...↓
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Comment From: Joan Roberts

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
My name is Joan Roberts and I am here as a pediatrician, a parent, and a cancer survivor to stand in staunch opposition to the proposed Kalama Methanol Plant. The public health risks proposed by this plant are numerous, terrifying and preventable.

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There are no steps in this pathway that do not result in damage to the local, regional, and eventually global environment. The human and environmental costs associated with the release of carbon, chemicals and heavy metals into our water and air and the increased presence of plastic in our ocean for centuries to come all represent immediate reasons to prevent this project from going forward.

Yet here we are with the Department of Ecology apparently contemplating that these costs might be worth incurring. What is in the balance? Do we think that the jobs for this plant will outweigh the job losses from tourism, fisheries, and shellfish that will be injured in the coming years? I implore you to consider our welfare as humans, we're all subject to the same frailties and needs.

Our bodies are affected by plastics which are proven to change the hormonal balance and promote cancers driven by those hormones. Please, for the health of our people, for our beautiful Columbia River and the Salish Sea, do not allow this plant to move forward.
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Comment From: Samantha Grieger

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Thank you. Hi, I'm a 25-year old Southwest resident and biogeochemist in environmental science, and I'm just really concerned about the proposed refinery. After reviewing the data and most recent environmental assessment report, I wanted just to stat...↓

These wildfires in the research I have done have been proven to be worsening with climate change and increased greenhouse gas emissions. Most recent EIS draft reported that this refinery would increase Washington's annual carbon CO2 equivalent emissions by over a million of cubic tons a year.

This on top of the huge water use coming from the Columbia river, the inevitable gas leaks, the impacts on local indigenous communities up and downstream from the plant, the potential and inevitable groundwater and water quality degradation within the Columbia river itself, this plant cannot be built in good conscious and benefits to people who call this place home.

This is also being proposed to be built on sacred land without the consent of the indigenous tribes who reside there, and we really need to try to do better in that because we messed up a lot in the past. We are at the moment in time here where we need to be moving away from fossil fuels and finding new alternatives regardless of what direction the global market is moving in, and it's changing really fast.

Who's to say it's slow and steady for the next 40 years. Look at how much it's changed in the past 40 years. We need to create jobs by becoming less dependent on fossil fuels. Washington should be leaders in this transition to renewable energy. Please look beyond the immediate monetary benefit of this plant, and think of the impact it will have on the next six generations. We are in a crisis. We must actively combat it, not just promote it. Thank you so much.
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Comment From: Neal Anderson

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
After the smoke last week, all of us in the West Coast are well aware that we set a new record this year of the number of [inaudible] burned. People in the Midwest know about the record flooding there, and the millions of acres of crops it destroyed,...↓

No matter where you live, you're seeing the effects of climate destruction because for 40 years we've ignored the warnings of scientists, [inaudible] building more refineries and adding more carbon pollution to the atmosphere year after year. It's becoming increasingly clear to everyone that we can't continue with business as usual. Yet, business as usual is exactly what this document assumes.

It accepts as a given that the world will continue burning fossil fuels [inaudible] increasing. It assumes that humanity will just accept worsening disasters and ever increasing casualties as one of the costs of doing business. It argues that this is a slightly cleaner than other forms of methanol production which to me seems like a doctor diagnosing a patient with lung disease [inaudible] because quitting seems like too much to ask.

The baseline scenario shouldn't be business as usual, it should be rapid decarbonization, and fossil fueled derived methanol has no place in that future. Assuming business as usual can no longer be the framework we use to evaluate [inaudible] would add 40 million tons of carbon pollution over its lifetime, and when we're already in a climate emergency that's all the reason you need to deny this project.

Also, I want to address those making the argument that this needs to be built for economic reasons. The current forecast is that by 2050, cumulative [inaudible] from climate change will reach $8 trillion. In addition, increased hurricanes, floods and fires, this is the financial cost that we're asking the next generation to pay. Thank you.
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Comment From: Terry Casey

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
My name is Terry Casey [inaudible] local 701 [inaudible] in Washington. I support the project wholeheartedly. Union jobs are key to building equity in our community for the children's futures. Speaking on children's futures, the unions and trade unio...↓

Those kids that have come into the trades, have gotten their education and their wealth of knowledge by learning from others that have done that. If we don't have these projects to build, these people have the jobs that have gotten them to the point where they are today. Thank you very much.
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Comment From: Camp Kalama RV Park and Campgr... (Charlene DesRosier)

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
 Perfect. My name is Charlene de Rocher. I live in Kalama. My family home is the closest year-round residents to this proposed plant. Our family business is the closest non-industrial business we own and operate Camp Kalama RV park and Campgroun...↓

Our family business is fueled by these outdoor activities, attracting visitors, and return customers. This plant would negatively impact our business. It will pump dangerous pollutants into our air and put our rivers at risk. Waiting for sunsets that will only be obscured by the 10,000-foot plume emitted from this plant. Sitting around the fire waiting for darkness and the stars to come out is going to be difficult because the light from this plant will always be on.

These same lights will impact the natural movement of fish. Currently, things are happening on the Kalama River and hopes to increase fish numbers and improve and provide more habitat. Any spill or leak could destroy this environment. How will they mitigate that? How would they mitigate my home life because this proposed plant is literally in my backyard? If permitted, we will look at towering pillars spewing steam and pollutants 10,000 feet into the sky every day we walk out our front door and every night when we return.

Mount St. Helens is over 8000 feet Mount Hood over 11,000 this plume will compare and height only with these mountains, but will have a devastating impact on us in our family. We will not pick fruit from our orchard or eat food from our gardens. Will our well last and will our water remain safe? Kalama should not be forced to live in the shadow of this monstrosity to risk all the dangers.

Kalama should not be defined by the world's largest methanol plant. It has no place in this community. Please, as your mission states, protect, preserve, and enhance Washington's environment. There is nothing about this plant that will enhance our environment. We need you to help us protect what we as a community have built and help us preserve and create a better cleaner Washington. Thank you.
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Comment From: Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Celene Cloquet)

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
My name is Celine Cloquet. I'm an elected council member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. The proposed Kalama methanol manufacturing and marine export facility lies within our homeland. The Cowlitz tribal council has determined that this project is incon...↓

Our comments until now have focused generally on localized impacts. For the GHG emission review, we have attempted to take a broad view from many perspectives. The tribe considers the recent firestorms, flooding events, and other severe weather outbreaks demonstrate a clear link between global conditions and local impacts. The SSEIS does little to persuade us that this is a green project. While this project may move forward, its contribution to global emissions is still significant. Whether this project brings more vehicles to the road or more shampoo bottles that is supporting throwaway consumer culture, which is undermining our climate stability. We ask that the Department of Ecology review the project's impacts and findings relative to greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation carefully, thoroughly, and with an eye to the seventh generation.

In closing, the tribal council has concluded that the project's objective to produce methanol is not consistent without our belief that our actions are critical to our planet's warming trend. Thank you
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Comment From: Sept Gernez

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Sept Gomez. I'm an organizer with the Sierra Club, and I'm representing our 3.8 million supporters across the country who are counting on you to deny this project. The Sierra Club's mission is to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet....↓

I'd like to remind you of your mission statement. The Department of Ecology's mission is to protect, preserve, and enhance Washington's land, air, and water for current and future generations. Approval of this project would be a counter to your mission. We've given you facts so you don't need facts from me. I'd love to share where I'm coming from personally on this.

I am a transgender non-binary person and many youths in the trans community are unhoused. While the Clean Air Agency has been telling everybody to stay inside with the wildfire smoke fueled by climate change, our youths are out there suffocating. Unhoused individuals cannot stay inside. During this pandemic, my sister has been pregnant. She's due in December. It's a strange time to be welcoming my niece into the world and I'm counting on you to fight for a future where these kids can survive.

Please deny this project. Thank you
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Comment From: R.C. Olson

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Yes. Hello, this is [inaudible] Olsen. I'm a civil engineer and a certified construction manager living in Bellevue, Washington. I work all over the state. I look at any potential construction project as potential revenue for myself or people like me...↓

I'm very much opposed to this project. It is not something we should be looking for jobs as a justification for it. I think we know that clean energy projects have much in the way of jobs potential and that's where we should be focusing. I thank the Department of Ecology for doing this analysis and providing the opportunity for public comment and urge you to reject this project's permit application. Thank you.
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Comment From: MaryAlice Wallis

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, this is MaryAlice Wallis. I've been a resident of Longview, Washington since 1972. My husband and I have raised our family of four in Longview. We love our community. It was founded by Robert A. Long a person with a grand vision for development a...↓

I'm in full support of the Northwest Innovation Works. I appreciate the review done by the Department of Ecology. Those who continue to ignore the science behind this project are only fooling themselves. In addition to global greenhouse gas reductions, Northwest Innovation Works will mitigate for 100% of its in-state emissions, even those not directly tied to its facility 100%. This will create investments in renewable natural gas development, saving and improving forest lands and practices, and driving other innovative greenhouse gas reducing technologies and opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

What further excites me about Northwest Innovation Works is not only will this project helped to employ 1,000 workers during construction and 200 into the operation of the facility upon the completion of construction, it will also generate $30 million to $40 million in new state and local taxes. The investment of Northwest Innovation Project provides a much-needed boost to our struggling Cowlitz economy. Please, please, issue permits for this project to proceed. Please listen to the folks that reside in this community
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Comment From: Sharon Miller

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Good morning, everyone. I'm Sharon Miller, a lifetime resident of the state of Washington, currently living in Vancouver. I am strongly committed to preserving our environment for my family, including six grandchildren who are learning of the devasta...↓

As a young child I lived in Longview, Washington, and I knew of Kalama as the small Riverside community, which featured Keith Liliska, who carved totem poles and clear view from the freeway. His totems are now displayed very near the side of the proposed Northwest innovation works methanol refinery. The tallest totem is 140 feet tall and is reportedly the tallest single strand carved from one single tree totem in the world. Not only is this totem a reminder of the native people who live and have rights to this land, but also to the trees that were thriving there when he was carving.

We are now aware of a proposed foreign company locating in this community that will produce upstream pollution exceeding 1 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, and 5 million tons of additional greenhouse gas pollution in Kalama. Why would we allow this? This is totally counter to our State's efforts to move towards a clean energy economy.

I am calling on the department of ecology to reject the methanol refinery and deny the shorelines permit for this project. Right now is the time to protect our communities for our children. Thank you for this hearing today that empowers all of us to have input into your decision and thank you for doing the right thing.
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Comment From: Carolyn Atkinson

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Carolyn Atkinson and I work at an elementary school in Seattle. I'm a young person who struggles with the climate related mental health effects described earlier. My students understand that they are growing up in a world in crisis. I ...↓

The most terrifying impacts of climate change are projected to hit us well within my lifetime. Before the end of the century, CO2 levels are likely to rise to the point of impairing human cognition. This concern is absent from the EIS.

The climate plan is justifying itself with the ridiculous logic that somehow over the next 40 years, this plant will emit less than hypothetical other plants. This is an absurdity. 2020 shows that the significant long foreseeable economic ecological and human system collapses are here. The next 40 years will be so unpredictable that most of my generation has agreed that we won't bother to plan for retirement because of the scale of chaos on our horizon. The EIS is ridiculously optimistic and assuming business as usual indefinitely is an absurdity.

These ecological and political instabilities that break the 40 year speculation of the environmental statement is caused by the climate crisis and this instability is caused by fossil fuel expansion. The instability is caused by projects exactly like this one, and it is exacerbated by the commitment to dishonesty of so many fossil companies, not necessarily excluding Northwest Innovations, which has wasted DOE time with data so optimistic and inaccurate that the whole environmental impact process had to be repeated.

We don't want to work with careless firms when the stakes are this high. VIS should accurately account for historical failures of this industry to clean up after themselves and prevent leaks and close Wells. It is time for those with the responsibility to do the right thing, to quit saying, "Well, just a little bit more." The planet doesn't have a little bit more to give. Protect, preserve, and enhance the environment for my generation and future generations. Thank you.
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Comment From: Don Watt

9/22/20 @ 3:00 AM
Hi, my name is Don watt. I live in Chehalis, Washington. I'm a retiree from the department of Ecology, where I worked for 25 years in the air quality program, as an air quality monitor and also worked in the environmental assessment program, doing st...↓

No, if approve,d in each of these cases, the Kalama Methanol Plant would prove to be just the first in a long list of proposals for projects that would further degrade our river, our region, and the climate of our planet. If we are serious about protecting the environment in this region and serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions, then we must deny approval of this Kalama Methanol Plant proposal. The industrial site at Kalama's prime location, but it does not have to be used as a welcome mat, opening the region to the destructive fossil fuel and petrochemical industries.
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Comment From: Mary Anne deVry

9/22/20 @ 2:58 AM
Dear WA Department of Ecology,

As a person of faith, I believe we are called to care for both the well-being of communities and the environment.

Inherent in this moral imperative is investing in a livable future that is safe for all to thrive. All maj...↓

Building the world's largest fracked gas-to-methanol plant in Washington does not align with my personal values of stewardship and justice, nor does it support our state's commitment to reducing climate pollution. Please reject Northwest Innovation Work's proposed methanol refinery in Kalama and deny its Shorelines Permit.

The second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Kalama methanol refinery clearly shows that this project is dirty, dangerous, and unwise. If built, our state will be locked into decades of additional climate pollution, even though we know it is past time to pursue a truly low-carbon future. Speculating that this project may displace other fossil fuels is not adequate justification for the known pollution that will harm our communities and climate.

Northwest Innovation Works has demonstrated that they are deceptive and will seek profit over people's wellbeing. They cannot be trusted to mitigate the impacts of this fracked gas refinery. The fact that the project has needed three reviews, with outspoken community opposition during each, shows that there is something wrong with it at its core. As Governor Inslee stated, we cannot support such fracked gas projects in good conscience.

You have a moral responsibility to protect public health and reduce our region's climate pollution. Please do what is right and deny this project. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Mary Anne deVry
6549 California Ave SW Apt 4 Seattle, WA 98136-1858
maryannedevry@gmail.com
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Comment From: Kristin Edmark

9/22/20 @ 2:57 AM
Comment: Formal Comments on Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility Draft Second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, September 2020
RE: Upstream emissions from fracking
Date: September 19, 2020

Respectfully submitted by: Kristin Edmark,...↓
7611 NE 296th Way
Battle Ground, WA 98604 kristinedmark@hotmail.com; (360) 666-1285

To: Washington State Department of Ecology c/o Rich Doeges

Thank you for the opportunity to comment. Thank you for requiring the SEIS be redone. Thank you for the changes made.

Please add emissions from the fracking process to the upstream emissions. My main reason for being strongly opposed to the Kalama methanol refinery is that is encourages enormous fossil fuel extraction and fracking during a climate crisis. Thank you for including methane pipe leakage in your analysis. It is also necessary to include realistic emission figures dealing with the fracking/ extraction process itself. According to "High Country News" Colorado is facing large expenses attempting to cap "orphaned" wells.( http://hcn.org Jan 16,2018 "Orphaned" oil and gas wells are on the rise) Large oil and gas companies usually sell their rights to smaller companies when wells become less profitable. Often these smaller companies walk away rather than attempting to cap wells as is required. Bloomberg has also reported on the growing problem of uncapped wells which continue to emit methane. (http://www.bloomberg.com/new/features/2020-09-17/abandoned-wells-are-left-to-spew-methane-for-eternity?) The entire process of extraction including uncapped wells is a consequence of the Kalama methanol refinery creating a demand for the product.

As you know, the demand created by the methanol refinery will likely necessitate an additional north-south pipeline which will make it easier for additional large fossil fuel projects like that proposed at Port Westward, Oregon to be built.

Our world has run out of time to prevent enough change in our atmosphere to prevent continued climate disasters. The science is clear. I was struck by the globe exhibit as OMSI in Portland, OR showing world sources of greenhouse gasses. The exhibit points to northern USA/Canada as a major world emitter. It is just wrong and shameful for us to be doing this to the world. It is wrong for us to ignore/omit the upstream consequence of drilling/fracking created by the demand for gas by the Kalama methanol refinery.

Please include the full consequence of the drilling process including abandoned wells in the upstream emission Please deny the shoreline substantial development and conditional use permit on the basis of unacceptable greenhouse gas emissions.

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Comment From: JoAnne Baker

9/22/20 @ 2:27 AM
NO TO THE METHONOL PLANT IN KALAMA WASHINGTON!!!
Yes we need family wage jobs, but not at the expense of our environment. Our natural resources are being depleted to send methonol to China to make plastic. OUR WORLD IS DROWING IN PLASTIC AND WE DON'...↓
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Comment From: John Flynn

9/22/20 @ 2:21 AM
Department of Ecology
In 2008 the Washington State legislature established limits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State. Those requirements can be found in Revised Code of Washington RCW 70.235.020. In its 2019 update Ecology recom...↓
1) By 2020, reduce overall emissions of greenhouse gases in the state to 1990 levels.
2) By 2035, reduce overall emissions of greenhouse gases in the state to 25 percent below 1990 levels.
3) By 2050, the state will do its part to reach global climate stabilization levels by reducing overall emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels.
The Department of Ecology issued its "Washington State Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory:1990-2015 Report to the Legislature" in December 2018, Publication 18-02-043. The key findings of this report to the legislature were:
1) Washingtons 2015 total greenhouse gas emissions were 97.4 Million Metric Tons.
2) Washingtons 2015 total greenhouse gas emissions were 7.4 Million Metric Tons higher than the 1990 baseline of 90.0 Million Metric Tons.
3) Washingtons greenhouse gas emissions increased by about 6.1 percent from 2012 to 2015.
Today, Department of Ecology is considering whether to grant or deny a permit for the construction and operation of a fracked gas to methanol refinery in Kalama, WA, by a foreign owned company, that would add 4.6 Million Metric Tons of greenhouse gases per year to this matrix. We know that in 2015 we were 7.4 MMT over the 1990 baseline of 90MMT. By adding an additional 4.6 MMT that would equate to 12.0 MMT more than the 1990 baseline.
In order to meet the legislative mandate of reducing greenhouse gas emissions the Department of Ecology has no alternative but to deny the permits for this refinery.
Thank you.
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Comment From: Art Hanson

9/22/20 @ 2:10 AM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and acknowledgement that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.

This new Dra...↓

Despite these marginal improvements, the evaluation of potential mitigation and displacement contained in this analysis is misleading and concerning in its reliance on speculative and unenforceable assumptions. One can simply look to the impacts of this pandemic to see evidence of incredible uncertainty and volatility in energy market dynamics. It is dangerous to presume this analysis can accurately predict global fuel markets, technology developments, consumer behavior, or regulations for the coming four decades. Furthermore, the SEIS provides too little detail on the actual mitigation that would be accomplished within the voluntary mitigation framework, nor does this mitigation address the full impacts of NWIWs emissions that will occur overseas. The mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that this projects impacts will be mitigated, and the urgency of climate change demands that mitigation should be the last option (after all other impacts are reduced) in order to address unavoidable impacts, not simply to maintain the status quo as we continue to build out the fossil fuel industry.

Even with all of its flaws, this analysis confirms that NWIWs proposed facility would become one of the greatest sources of climate pollution in Washington. It is simply unacceptable for Washington to build an unequivocally and enormously polluting facility based on speculative analysis and a faint hope of theoretical emission reductions. Ecology should dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities, and instead should base its permitting decision on what is reasonably foreseeable and indeed, assured, about this project--that it would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, for 40 years, and is profoundly inconsistent with achieving Washingtons climate goals.

The evidence in this draft SEIS demonstrates that Washington should deny NWIWs proposal to build and operate this dangerous methanol refinery in Kalama. We cannot keep building fossil fuel export infrastructure and expect to address the dangers of climate change.

I strongly urge you to keep communities safe and keep Washington on track to meet goals for reducing climate pollution.

However, you MUST do MUCH more. We MUST keep ALL climate-changing fossil fuels IN THE GROUND! We MUST achieve 100% clean, renewable energy by 2030.
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Comment From: Dolores Kueffler

9/22/20 @ 1:04 AM
To whom it may concern:
I am extremely concerned about climate change and the way that the burning of fossil fuels is changing our environment. This summer's extreme weather conditions have been a dire warning. The plan to build this Kalama manufactur...↓

I recently made the decision to close my fused glass business largely because of my ethical dilemma of how much fossil fuels it takes to make and design glass. It's one thing on a personal level that I have control over.

I believe this plant goes against the goals of Washington State to reduce greenhouse gases rather than adding to them.

I oppose the permitting of this plant because it will be a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. The argument that those countries using this fuel would use dirtier sources doesn't hold water. We don't know what they'll do. What we do know is that this methanol plant, if built, will spew millions of tons of emissions a year. It would also have negative impacts upstream in extraction and transportation. It's a step in the wrong direction for our state and world in a time of global crisis.
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Comment From: Don Steinke

9/22/20 @ 12:42 AM
I'm Don Steinke, retired physics teacher. We are being given false choices. Choose this project or choose whatever the market decides.

Our colleagues around the world will fight those other projects. They stopped 15 LNG export terminals in British Co...↓

Our climate system cannot afford either one of the choices. We are close to the point at which global warming will not stop until temperatures have risen 5 degrees Celsius, which would be the end of civilization as we know it.
Toyota proposed the Prius in 1988, and it was a good idea at the time, but even a Prius factory built in Kalama today would not be compliant with policy in China. China told the automakers "go all-electric or go home".
China leads the world in wind, solar, and battery electric buses. They have 400,000 battery electric buses and we have about 400.

China signed the Paris Climate Accords. Even if all the speculation in the EIS actually happened, this project would not comply with that agreement.
You should not approve a project unless you know all the facts.
Don't guess at the methane leaks in the pipeline. Measure them. The home-base for the Pipeline Air-Plane is at the Pearson Airport in Vancouver. Attach methane sniffers to them.

Five days ago, Bloomberg reported that Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever.
Just one of them in California could have emitted 30 tons of methane and there are millions more like it. Include those facts in your EIS.

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Comment From: Laura Johanson

9/22/20 @ 12:38 AM
No, no, a thousand times no. Backward thinking, major environmental and social affects at the fracking source, more ghg, more disproportionate affects on low-income people here, more plastic and more ghg at its destination. This is not in line with W...↓
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Comment From: Courtney Brace

9/21/20 @ 9:21 PM
We are absolutely against the proposed methanol plant in Kalama. The benefit does not outweigh the (many) risks and the benefit of local jobs may be minimal at best.
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Comment From: Lois Roepcke

9/21/20 @ 9:10 PM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and acknowledgement that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.
This new Dra...↓
Despite these marginal improvements, the evaluation of potential mitigation and displacement contained in this analysis is misleading and concerning in its reliance on speculative and unenforceable assumptions. One can simply look to the impacts of this pandemic to see evidence of incredible uncertainty and volatility in energy market dynamics. It is dangerous to presume this analysis can accurately predict global fuel markets, technology developments, consumer behavior, or regulations for the coming four decades. Furthermore, the SEIS provides too little detail on the actual mitigation that would be accomplished within the voluntary mitigation framework, nor does this mitigation address the full impacts of NWIWs emissions that will occur overseas. The mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that this projects impacts will be mitigated, and the urgency of climate change demands that mitigation should be the last option (after all other impacts are reduced) in order to address unavoidable impacts, not simply to maintain the status quo as we continue to build out the fossil fuel industry.
Even with all of its flaws, this analysis confirms that NWIWs proposed facility would become one of the greatest sources of climate pollution in Washington. It is simply unacceptable for Washington to build an unequivocally and enormously polluting facility based on speculative analysis and a faint hope of theoretical emission reductions. Ecology should dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities, and instead should base its permitting decision on what is reasonably foreseeable and indeed, assured, about this project--that it would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, for 40 years, and is profoundly inconsistent with achieving Washingtons climate goals.
The evidence in this draft SEIS demonstrates that Washington should deny NWIWs proposal to build and operate this dangerous methanol refinery in Kalama. We cannot keep building fossil fuel export infrastructure and expect to address the dangers of climate change.
Please keep our communities safe and keep Washington and Oregon on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution.
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Comment From: Marleen Neus

9/21/20 @ 8:38 PM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and acknowledgement that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.

This new Dra...↓

Despite these marginal improvements, the evaluation of potential mitigation and displacement contained in this analysis is misleading and concerning in its reliance on speculative and unenforceable assumptions. One can simply look to the impacts of this pandemic to see evidence of incredible uncertainty and volatility in energy market dynamics. It is dangerous to presume this analysis can accurately predict global fuel markets, technology developments, consumer behavior, or regulations for the coming four decades. Furthermore, the SEIS provides too little detail on the actual mitigation that would be accomplished within the voluntary mitigation framework, nor does this mitigation address the full impacts of NWIWs emissions that will occur overseas. The mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that this projects impacts will be mitigated, and the urgency of climate change demands that mitigation should be the last option (after all other impacts are reduced) in order to address unavoidable impacts, not simply to maintain the status quo as we continue to build out the fossil fuel industry.

Even with all of its flaws, this analysis confirms that NWIWs proposed facility would become one of the greatest sources of climate pollution in Washington. It is simply unacceptable for Washington to build an unequivocally and enormously polluting facility based on speculative analysis and a faint hope of theoretical emission reductions. Ecology should dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities, and instead should base its permitting decision on what is reasonably foreseeable and indeed, assured, about this project--that it would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, for 40 years, and is profoundly inconsistent with achieving Washingtons climate goals.

The evidence in this draft SEIS demonstrates that Washington should deny NWIWs proposal to build and operate this dangerous methanol refinery in Kalama. We cannot keep building fossil fuel export infrastructure and expect to address the dangers of climate change.

Please keep our communities safe and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution.
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Comment From: Evan Beattie

9/21/20 @ 8:09 PM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and acknowledgement that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.

This new Dra...↓

Despite these marginal improvements, the evaluation of potential mitigation and displacement contained in this analysis is misleading and concerning in its reliance on speculative and unenforceable assumptions. One can simply look to the impacts of this pandemic to see evidence of incredible uncertainty and volatility in energy market dynamics. It is dangerous to presume this analysis can accurately predict global fuel markets, technology developments, consumer behavior, or regulations for the coming four decades. Furthermore, the SEIS provides too little detail on the actual mitigation that would be accomplished within the voluntary mitigation framework, nor does this mitigation address the full impacts of NWIWs emissions that will occur overseas. The mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that this projects impacts will be mitigated, and the urgency of climate change demands that mitigation should be the last option (after all other impacts are reduced) in order to address unavoidable impacts, not simply to maintain the status quo as we continue to build out the fossil fuel industry.

Even with all of its flaws, this analysis confirms that NWIWs proposed facility would become one of the greatest sources of climate pollution in Washington. It is simply unacceptable for Washington to build an unequivocally and enormously polluting facility based on speculative analysis and a faint hope of theoretical emission reductions. Ecology should dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities, and instead should base its permitting decision on what is reasonably foreseeable and indeed, assured, about this project--that it would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, for 40 years, and is profoundly inconsistent with achieving Washingtons climate goals.

The evidence in this draft SEIS demonstrates that Washington should deny NWIWs proposal to build and operate this dangerous methanol refinery in Kalama. We cannot keep building fossil fuel export infrastructure and expect to address the dangers of climate change.

Please keep our communities safe and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution.
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Comment From: STACIE CHARLEBOIS

9/21/20 @ 5:29 PM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and acknowledgement that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.

This new Dra...↓

Despite these marginal improvements, the evaluation of potential mitigation and displacement contained in this analysis is misleading and concerning in its reliance on speculative and unenforceable assumptions. One can simply look to the impacts of this pandemic to see evidence of incredible uncertainty and volatility in energy market dynamics. It is dangerous to presume this analysis can accurately predict global fuel markets, technology developments, consumer behavior, or regulations for the coming four decades. Furthermore, the SEIS provides too little detail on the actual mitigation that would be accomplished within the voluntary mitigation framework, nor does this mitigation address the full impacts of NWIWs emissions that will occur overseas. The mitigation framework is too vague for Ecology to conclude that this projects impacts will be mitigated, and the urgency of climate change demands that mitigation should be the last option (after all other impacts are reduced) in order to address unavoidable impacts, not simply to maintain the status quo as we continue to build out the fossil fuel industry.

Even with all of its flaws, this analysis confirms that NWIWs proposed facility would become one of the greatest sources of climate pollution in Washington. It is simply unacceptable for Washington to build an unequivocally and enormously polluting facility based on speculative analysis and a faint hope of theoretical emission reductions. Ecology should dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities, and instead should base its permitting decision on what is reasonably foreseeable and indeed, assured, about this project--that it would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year, for 40 years, and is profoundly inconsistent with achieving Washingtons climate goals.

The evidence in this draft SEIS demonstrates that Washington should deny NWIWs proposal to build and operate this dangerous methanol refinery in Kalama. We cannot keep building fossil fuel export infrastructure and expect to address the dangers of climate change.

Please keep our communities safe and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution.
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Comment From: Marian Fish

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Do I understand correctly that the ghg emissions charts you’re explaining so carefully tonight are crediting NWI for not using coal?  Thanks

 

Marian Fish
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Mark Wells

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Mark Wells.

I’m a Business Agent for UA Local 26 Plumbers and Pipefitters of Western Washington.

I support the construction of the Methanol Plant mostly because of the large number of family wage jobs it will create, b...↓

It will also generate much needed tax revenue.

Science has shown numerous times that this plant is a green project. Much greener than outsourcing this work to another country and ignoring the pollution because of the lack of regulations. Built in WA, it will meet all guidelines, create products we badly need in a much safer way without the pollution.

The permit for this project needs to be issued asap. Any other decision would be simply hypocritical.

Regards,

Mark Wells
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Comment From: Denise Banker

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Talking points for the 10 AM Tuesday Ecology Testimony:

Before I begin, I want to thank you ahead of time for doing the right thing for the people and the planet in voting to reject Northwest Innovations Works proposal to build in Washington State the...↓

My name is Denise Banker and I live in Port Townsend, Washington.

Why is this specific issue important to me: Overall this spherical planet, we all breathe the same air. We all depend on the earth’s stability in its ability to support human life. I’m particularly tired of witnessing billion-dollar companies obfuscate data, use future speculation and mitigation schemes to hoodwink busy and underpaid government regulators. It’s unfortunate that Ecology’s current study relies on speculative mitigation and an unenforceable market analysis to paper over the impacts of this dirty, climate-wrecking proposal.

 

Here’s why Ecology needs to reject Northwest Innovations Works dubious proposal.

1.)     The people don’t want the proposal approved.

2.)     We know the hazards associated with fracking gas.

3.)     We know the disruptions underground caused by fracking gas

4.)     We know carbon emissions drive global climate change

5.)     We know pipelines leak

6.)     We know methane leaks are underestimated in this proposal

7.)     We know the cost benefit analyses do not take into consideration all the healthcare, loss of livelihood, infrastructure, and insurance costs associated with noxious air, rising sea levels, intensified storms, and fire seasons.

8.)     We know that it’s hypocritical to say out of one side of your mouth “we can’t base our decisions on speculations regarding what climate science tells us the future holds if we keep burning fossil fuels, or on future clean energy development…” while, at the same time, saying out of the other side of your mouth “we can base our decision on these data models that project into the future to base our decisions…” Talking out of both sides of your mouth is unethical.

9.)     This project is not in keeping with the WA State clean air Goals.

10.)Fossil fuel energy production is a thing of the past.

11.)This company has consistently made false, misleading, and dubious claims.

 

To quote Governor Inslee’s May, 2019 words: “I cannot in good conscience support this refinery.” End quote. Now is the time to invest and approve renewable, sustainable, clean energy development.

 

I call on Ecology to reject Northwest Innovations Works proposal to build the largest fracked-gas to methanol refinery in the world. We don’t need any more greenhouse gas producing energy systems, we don’t need expansion of fossil fuel development and production. We need to focus solely on expansion of sustainable, renewable, clean energy systems that don’t use fossil fuels. We definitely don’t need any more plastic that’s created using last century’s methods.  Thank you for your time. 
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Comment From: Charles Raymond

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don’t allow the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Zenk, Jeff

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
FW: Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility Public Hearing
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Comment From: Ann Skinner

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
FW: I thought this was supposed to be audio and video.
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
FW: Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
FW: Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
FW: Methanol Plant Permitting
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Beth Hatfield

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don’t allow the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Ben Stevenson

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Lou Orr

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Skyler Mcvaugh

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Robert Lapsley

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Kent Gale

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
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Comment From: Randall Strutz

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Paula Hooser

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Jan Hughes

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Aslaug Haraldsdottir

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Pete Paget

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Kim Rice

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Noreen Fujitasacco

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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Comment From: Casey Defoer

9/21/20 @ 5:00 PM
Don?t allow the world?s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
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