Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility Second Supplemental EIS

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Comment From: Teresa Flynn

9/17/20 @ 3:03 PM
My family lives in Kalama, Washington.We are against the proposed Methanol Refinery. we have been fighting this for five years. Next time could you just tell them At the beginning of the process that it is not acceptable and be done with it.Thank you...↓
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Comment From: Don Steinke

9/17/20 @ 2:32 PM
Hello, I'm Don Steinke, retired science teacher, 43 years mostly at Fort Vancouver High School.
NEPA was signed by Nixon 50 years ago, because it had been difficult to get all the facts related to a project. NEPA requires you to prepare an EIS that t...↓
You gave us part of truth and a lot of speculation. I'm not even sure you read your own EIS. Did you write it? Were the remarks about displacement potential your own or did they come from the proponent?
The natural gas industry is the absolute master of deceit and lies. They persuaded us that most plastic is recycled when it is not. They are advertising on TV and FB right now about being the pathway to a clean and sustainable future. When all the emissions are accounted for, gas is nearly as bad as coal and methanol is worse.
Methanol is the opposite of a value-added product. It's a pollution added product. Better to use the fuel at the source than to add the pollution generated by a methanol plant.
The gas industry has known about climate change for decades but are engaged in a "campaign of deception" to help sell their products. They have fooled most of the public and the elected officials. They fooled the green groups as well, until we learned about methane leaks in 2014. And they are trying to fool you with their displacement theory.
Don't believe anything they say!
Get rid of the speculation in the EIS. Protect our children's future and say NO to our destruction.

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Comment From: Danny Percich

9/17/20 @ 2:23 PM
Don't allow the world's largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery to harm our climate and Kalama!
Washington should reject Northwest Innovation Works' (NWIW) proposal to build and operate the world's largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama. ...↓
For the community of Kalama and for our climate, the risk is simply too big. Please keep our communities safe, and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution. We are counting on you to do the right thing and stop this dirty, dangerous fossil fuel export project.

In this moment of a top down attack against science, we need to stand up for science and look hard at how a this refinery will pollute and effect our communities. As a father of 3 and owner of a small farm, we need to protect our future.

Sincerely,
Danny Percich
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Comment From: Nancy McMahon

9/17/20 @ 1:55 PM
The science is in and we have very little time left to transfer our world from fossil fuel dependence to renewable sources of energy. We have begun to make headway in this direction, but this facility would be a giant step backwards.

The project woul...↓

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Comment From: John Flynn

9/17/20 @ 12:37 PM
I am a resident of Kalama, WA. I frequently fish the Columbia River both upstream and downstream of Kalama, as well as the Kalama River.
I oppose the proposed construction and operation of a fracked gas to methanol refinery on the shore of the Columbi...↓
This refinery would emit 4.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually into our already polluted atmosphere. In addition this petrochemical refinery would emit 53 tons of toxic and hazardous chemical pollutants into our air per year along with 62 tons of fine particulate matter per year. It is imperative upon us that we reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollutants rather than increase them.
The vapor cloud from the cooling towers of this refinery from which millions of gallons of water will be evaporated would reach between one half to three quarters of a mile high and one quarter to one half mile wide. I cannot see myself, in my boat, fishing with family and friends in the shadow of the worlds largest fracked methane gas to methanol refinery.
I sincerely urge the Department of Ecology to deny any and all permits for this refinery project.
Thank you.
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Comment From: Julie Glover

9/17/20 @ 11:21 AM
I am very upset that Northwest Innovation Works, LLC. proposes to develop and operate a natural gas-to-methanol production plant and storage facilities on approximately 90 acres at the Port of Kalama. THIS IS CRAZY! Methanol will be loaded on to ship...↓

The Second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement focused on fully analyzing greenhouse gas emissions from the proposed Kalama methanol facility, looking at impacts from upstream emissions, such as the greenhouse gases that escape from natural gas wells and pipelines, direct and indirect emissions produced at the facility, and downstream emissions from transporting the methanol to its intended destination in China. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME THAT WE WOULD WILLINGLY UNDERGO ALL THIS POLLUTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF A FEW MONEYMAKERS, BUT NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHOSE HABITAT IS BEING ENDANGERED!
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Comment From: Kevin Walsh

9/17/20 @ 11:20 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.

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

9/17/20 @ 10:27 AM
Washington Department Of Ecology,
I assume you wrote your mission statement,
your core purpose and values.
Let me remind you what you wrote.
PROTECT
PRESERVE
ENHANCE
Washington's
LAND
AIR
WATER
for current and future generations.

Based on YOUR Mission Statement ...↓
you will deny NWIW the permit they seek
for their proposed methanol refinery in
Kalama, Washington.
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Comment From: Mason Evans

9/17/20 @ 10:11 AM
My name is Mason Evans

I am the President of JH Kelly – a proud union construction firm headquartered in Longview WA

I value the environment and support actions that reduce global greenhouse gases - particularly the use of transitional feedstocks...↓

I support the Kalama Methanol Project because:
• It brings much needed jobs to Cowlitz County

• The project incorporates important features that benefit the local environment such as zero liquid discharge, ultra low emissions technology, and a commitment to mitigate for WA air emissions

• Most importantly, the project reduces global greenhouse gases

After reviewing the supplemental EIS, I find it to be comprehensive and utilize a valid methodology to evaluate the project.

For these reasons, I encourage the Department of Ecology to accept the conclusion of the EIS and issue the Shoreline and other necessary permits for the Kalama Methanol Facility.

Thank you

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Comment From: Julie Martinson

9/17/20 @ 9:47 AM
Washington State must reject this proposal that would build and operate the world's largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama.

I have lived here my whole life as a 4th generation Washingtonian. I grew up camping and exploring the mountains, r...↓

If this plant were approved, it would necessitate expanding the capacity of pipelines to the refinery, while we are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, instead. This is a Chinese-owned company, which wants US to bear all the suffering from the pollution and dangers, while using OUR resources of water and electricity (and fracked gas) for their methanol, to be shipped back to China. This is like a sad cartoon: 'What's wrong with this picture?'

Washington State has committed to cutting our fossil-fuel emissions, so we must stop this project NOW, to protect our lives and health and the future of our beautiful natural world for all of its precious living creatures.

I'm fighting to protect what is sacred and beautiful. We need to keep our communities safe and healthy. We have to take a stand against fossil fuels now, and reject this project entirely, once and for all.
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Comment From: Karen Ashford

9/17/20 @ 9:47 AM
Dear Concerned ( I hope)
I have lived here in Portland, and now own a home along the Little Kalama River Rd. I have asthma, and will be DIRECTLY impacted if this plant is built. I wonder if you have been updated about the plastic in our food, bodies...↓
WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE AIR AND WATER POLLUTION IN WASHINGTON STATE!

Heaven help us, Karen Ashford

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Comment From: Regan Fisher

9/17/20 @ 9:04 AM
I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed methanol refinery in Kalama.

This project would cause millions of tons of greenhouse gases to be emitted and pose a danger of pollution of the Columbia River. I am especially concerned about...↓

This refinery would use more fracked gas than all the gas-fired power plants in Washington combined. This stark increase is appalling, especially considering Governor Inslee has strongly positioned himself and the state of Washington as needing to urgently address climate change and move away from reliance on fossil fuels. This project would obviously be a move in the wrong direction.

I am also concerned about the gas pipeline that would be necessary for this project. It brings with it a huge risk of spills along the way, as well as damage to the communities along its path.

The EIS that was completed for this project is incomplete. It does not sufficiently address the environmental impacts of the project. The supplemental EIS was also inadequate. It is clear that there is bias involved in this project (with the stakeholders and backers), and it is unconscionable that the decision makers have not been presented with the accurate evidence of what sort of environmental damage this project would cause.

I request that the Department of Ecology deny the permit for the refinery.
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Comment From: carolyn atkinson

9/17/20 @ 8:41 AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-climate-change-report-human-civilization-at-risk-extinction-by-2050-new-australian-climate/

The SEISS does not account at all for the projected global political instability within this project's lifespan and the impact...↓
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Comment From: Mark Smith

9/17/20 @ 8:30 AM
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Comment From: Jennifer Vinnard

9/17/20 @ 8:29 AM
Speculations about this proposed methanol plant supposedly displacing coal burning plants is absolutely ludicrous and unfounded! Not one single coal to methanol plant has agreed to reduce or stop production, and with China's high demand, it's foolish...↓
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Comment From: Cynthia Thornton-Tang

9/17/20 @ 8:23 AM
I would like to urge the panel to deny the permit for the refinery.

I am a mother and a grandmother and a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest. I am concerned that there will be pollution and environmentally harmful effects at every stage of th...↓

This project, if approved, would give short-term financial benefit to Northwest Innovation Works and its investors, with the long-term costs passed on to citizens of this planet, a burden that would be borne most particularly by those who have the least. There will be leakage, there will be accidents, there will be clean up costs, there will be pollution either by methane gas or micro-plastics.

In our current year of trauma with COVID, economic upheaval, and heightened awareness of social and racial inequities, it is clear how morally wrong and economically short-sighted it is to approve fossil fuel projects that allow corporations and investors to reap the profit and walk away from the costs.

We need to make choices now that will give us all a better future.

I urge the panel to reject the permit request.

Thank you,
Cynthia Thornton-Tang
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Comment From: Mark Uhart

9/17/20 @ 8:22 AM
My name is Mark Uhart and I am a retired US Army career officer. My wife and I live near Kalama in the foothills overlooking the Columbia River. We are against this project. We purchased this property so we could enjoy the unobstructed view of the ...↓

Most importantly, I am concerned about the future of my children and grandchildren. It's hard for me to comprehend why anyone in this area would support a project that will adversely impact their health, safety, and long-term quality of life. The short-term economic gain will be offset by 40 years of dirty air and water, noise and landscape pollution, depletion of the Columbia River-Kalama River aquifer, and a definite impact on our climate. I grew up in southern California next to oil fields and refineries. I've lived in Texas and observed the stinky and noisy refineries along the coastline. Trust me, we don't want the smell, the noise, the air and water, and landscape pollution of this facility.

I served 21 years as an active duty officer in the Army from battery to Corps Artillery level, and an assignment in special weapons quality assurance. The strategic objective of our adversaries, Russia and China, were always part of our professional development. I was, and still am, very aware of the strategic implications of foreign countries' attempts to get deeply embedded into our financial system in order to influence both economic and military outcomes. One author says it best, "The signs that China is gearing up to contest America's global leadership are unmistakable, and they are ubiquitous." They are doing it with our money and our natural resources. When will the average Washington resident wake up and smell the coffee?

It really bothers us that the US citizens of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW), the Port of Kalama and the Cowlitz County commissioners, would support a project that is owned by the Chinese government; that will be financed primarily by US Government and Washington taxpayers; that will pollute our air and water; and only add to the devastating effects of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. We will bear most of the financial and environmental risks associated with this project while they take in the profits and improve their position toward world financial, economic, Southeast Asia maritime and political dominance. Money talks and the Chinese government are throwing a lot of money into marketing this project in its quest to control much of the world's technology and energy natural resources by 2030.

An assumption that was not stated, but can be inferred from these EISs, is that the international community will choose not to address climate change and regulate GHGs. If every country that wants to improve their energy position and economy, like China and the US, took the same approach purported in this report, then the earth is doomed. The assumption is that if this plant is not built herein Kalama, it will be built elsewhere. The law of supply and demand shows that if there is a shortage of a commodity, and prices increase, people will use it less and seek alternate technologies. We saw this before the fracking boom when gas prices went up. That drove better fuel efficiency and new technology (all electric cars, hybrid vehicles, and now fuel-cell vehicles.) Denying these projects will constrain these fossil fuel supply channels and force countries to develop clean, non-fossil fuel, energy alternatives.

I read the SSEIS and the voluntary mitigation framework presented in Appendix D is laughable. By using the term "in-state", NWIW is not willing to mitigate GHGs outside the state of Washington. This includes the upstream fugitive methane and CO2 from the methanol burned in transport to China, and as a fuel or in olefin production. I will address this further in another comment.

This project is a climate killer and the only responsible decision is for Ecology to deny the shoreline permit.

Mark Uhart
LTC, USA Ret.
Kalama, WA

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Comment From: Eric Haskins

9/17/20 @ 8:12 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.

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

9/17/20 @ 8:01 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.

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

9/17/20 @ 7:55 AM
I oppose the construction of Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility. The mining, transport and use of natural gas is destroying out planet. We must stop using fossil fuels immediately to have any hope of reversing climate change. It the plan...↓
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Comment From: DEREK DEXHEIMER

9/17/20 @ 7:54 AM
The Kalama ethanol plant should not be built. Ecology's own analysis shows the plant would emit a minimum of 4.6 million tons of GHGs annually for 40 years. This level of climate pollution is inconsistent with a livable climate.

In addition, the plant...↓

Due to its inherently destructive nature, this plant cannot go forward.
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Comment From: Joseph Hiss

9/17/20 @ 7:44 AM
Please do not approve the Second Supplemental Draft EIS for SEPA on this project. Any proposed action that locks WA and China into 40 years of fossil fuel mining, transportation, burning, or other industrial use, is unacceptable to me. I base this ...↓
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Comment From: Priscilla Martinez

9/17/20 @ 7:35 AM
We need to take better care of what is left of our environment, for people, wildlife, and marine life.
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Comment From: John Harris

9/17/20 @ 7:25 AM
Please do not approve this. In time of global warming and unprecedented fires, we do not need to add more methane into the atmosphere.

Also, we do not want to give the Chinese any foothold in our area. They are not our friends.
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Comment From: Deirdre Gabbay

9/17/20 @ 7:02 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.

Twenty years ago would have been the correct time to phase out the burning of fossil fuels to protect our c...↓

If we fail to act again today, when the devastating effects of last year's poor choices are upon us, then what is the point of ever educating another child to study science, of ever teaching another human being to care about the future, or giving any governing body the responsibility to set policy that will affect the future health of the planet?

The answer is: there will be no point to your very existence as a Department of Ecology if you approve construction of this disastrous project.

We the people have given you the authority to say "no" to this fatal industry. You must use it.

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,
Deirdre Gabbay
120 W Smith St Seattle, WA 98119-2319
deirdre@gabbay.org
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Comment From: Judith Wood

9/17/20 @ 7:00 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. We have...↓

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,
Judith Wood
6523 1st Ave NW Seattle, WA 98117-4826
judith.drake.wood@gmail.com
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Comment From: Cal Van Zee

9/17/20 @ 6:58 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.

This project will use more fracked natural gas than all of the gas power plants in the state, combined.

This...↓

And we the taxpayers of Washington state will subsidize those contract holders for a few dirty industry jobs.

We should tax those companies to pay the full cost of gas extraction and carbon released, starting at $20/ton.

Will investors still want to build this project if they have to pay the full costs to us?

Hire those workers as the new green economy by charging coal, gas and oil a true carbon tax. Consumers will switch quickly to sustainable power and the products and services needed will be ready.

Please deny this permit for me and my grandchildren

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,
Cal Van Zee
6523 1st Ave NW Seattle, WA 98117-4826
calvanzee@yahoo.com
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Comment From: Tina Brakefield

9/17/20 @ 6:55 AM
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Comment From: Fred Suter

9/17/20 @ 6:47 AM
My name is Fred Suter. I live in Vancouver, WA.

We are being told that the Kalama Methanol Refinery will produce over 4.5 million tons of GHG emissions every year and this will make it one of the largest polluters in the State of Washington.

We have s...↓

If you look on a map of the United States, the entire west coast appears to be on fire. We have seen over 40 large fires burn across CA, OR, and WA - destroying over 475,000 acres (so far). Thousands of our neighbors have been forced to evacuate from their houses and thousands have returned to the charred remains of what was once their homes. Dozens of towns have been destroyed.

We are told that hotter summers, dryer weather, and longer wildfire seasons contribute to the conditions that cause these monster wildfires. Hotter summers, dryer weather, and longer wildfire seasons come to us as a result of the impact that manmade GHG emissions have on the climate.

There is a connection between our quality of life as residents of the State of Washington and the construction of this methanol refinery. Yet wildfires are considered an extranality in the economic analysis of this methanol refinery.

The wildfires that are presently burning out of control have already caused billions dollars of damage. The economic analysis presented in the EIS doesn't take any of these costs into account. The economic analysis presented in the EIS grossly under-estimates the actual costs of constructing this refinery. The economic analysis does not allow decision makers the opportunity to evaluate the true costs of this refinery.

I urge you to include the costs of ALL GHG emissions in the EIS. It is clear to me that the construction of the Kalama Methanol Refinery runs counter to every future objective that the State of Washington has stated to combat climate change and preserve our quality of life.

Just say NO to fossil fuel expansion.

Sincerely - Fred Suter
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Comment From: Kristen Meston

9/17/20 @ 6:42 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.

There is no reason to create new polluting facilities rather than working to eliminate them. Please keep our communities safe and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution.
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Comment From: Joel Carlson

9/17/20 @ 6:15 AM
Fracked gas or methane is extremely harmful to our environment and must be banned. New construction must be electric only with heat pumps, etc. We must also ban the fracked gas LNG projects in Tacoma and Kalama. It is vital that we get this done now!
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Comment From: Brian Davern

9/17/20 @ 6:13 AM
There are many reasons to oppose this project and deny the permit applied for. Conversely, there are few and weak reasons to approve it. I'll only list some important objections there are to this project and concentrate on the most important reason...↓

The Port of Kalama (POK) site is far too small for the size of the intended plant size and product volume. No other in operation elsewhere matches its size or uses such a small parcel. This site is directly downstream and very close to the mouth of the Kalama River, host stream to ESA listed salmon and steelhead. The shoreline disruption caused by pier construction, then large ship movement, as well as river contamination from both the product spills and the ships would be a constant threat to rearing, outmigrant and adult fish. Plant operation will create a micro climate due to the injection of heated gas release, condensation and precipitation that will lower visibility, pollute water, shoreline and local landscapes downwind (meaning, to the north in winter, to the south in summer). The removal of 5M gallons of water/day beneath the Columbia streambed, assumes that it's surplus water... it is not. The supply of liquid gas used to produce methanol must course through steep, private residential properties that must shoulder the risk of leak and fire without benefit or consent. The price and supply consequences to regional users of liquid gas again provides no benefit in trade for reduced supply and higher prices. An additional assumption with this application is that the area's industrial past is also its future. The rejuvenation of the city of Kalama and the arrival of McMenamin's hotel and restaurant, is tangible proof that it is not. The proximity of the proposed plant to both the townsite and the residential community (primarily now there for the natural, rural character of living conditions) makes a future of heavy, around the clock, industrial activity much more than objectionable.

Finally, the main and by far the largest objection to this project is the very real specter of a changing climate that we've been warned of, been taught its human contributions and are now living in its effects (as numerous and widespread wildfires in the Northwest ravage the land and the plants and animals, including humans, that have made it their homes).

So there is a choice to consider, one of which is smart: POK can get in front of the climate reality we are living in and invite industry that HELPS moderate climate change... or sadly, make a huge contribution to accelerating the harmful effects a hotter planet imposes on all of earth's inhabitants. I beseech DOE to select smart and reject this proposed plant.
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Comment From: Diana Richardson

9/17/20 @ 5:57 AM
My name is Diana Richardson. I live in part of the territory stolen from the Chinook and Multnomah Peoples upon which their descendants live today.

"To protect, preserve and enhance the environment for future generations." Mission of Washington Depta...↓

I write to question your assumptions, your basic assumptions, about what is at stake in the decision to permit or not permit this or any project known to contribute to the havoc being rained down on our communities at this very moment.
With catastrophic climate destabilization undeniably linked to fossil fuels, you who are appointed or elected to make choices regarding the health and welfare of the people you are responsible to must accept your moral responsibility to act in a ways that do NO harm, that only protect the ENTIRE environment--from air and water on which we all depend-- to every animal and human on earth. Anything less is blind obedience to cultural biases to which you are accustomed. I refer to the notion that there have to be losses to life in any or all of its forms, justified by allegiance to a habit of accepting there is some value higher than that of preserving and enhancing life. For that is the only way anyone could even entertain the thought of permitting a project which will unquestionably have devastating effects on our lives now and on the generations to succeed us, if indeed, they will even be able to survive.

Your mission states : to "protect, preserve and enhance the environment for future generations"! You must take into account all of the beings who are affected by your actions.

When you think about the "pros and cons" of permitting this methanol project, a calamity for all the people of Kalama, of Washington, Oregon, and far beyond our homes, do you think about the First Nations' People, the people whose humanity has been denied by the continuing colonization the dominating culture imposes, against government law, against moral law, against spiritual law? Or are these lives ignored in the calculations of decision-makers who see the issues from the point of view of What-do-we-need-and-how-do-we-get-it? The point of view of the conquering nation.

We need to acknowledge the truth we do not want to see. Are you not charged with protecting, preserving and enhancing the environment for future generations?

As a woman familiar with the violence perpetrated upon the women of the communities through which the pipelines are laid, I must tell you this, though you will not want to hear it:
There are always the men who are not part of the communities where they are hired to build infrastructure for the substances illegally and immorally ripped from the entrails of our Mother Earth to be extracted for personal profit at the expense of the people.
Numb or dead to their feelings for the life that beats in every human heart, these men act out the brutal rape and pillage of the Earth upon the innocent, unprotected women they can so easily take for their own sad, brutal despair. Do not turn away from this truth: This is what you accept and authorize if you permit this project.

I implore you to find some human feeling in your own heart...a feeling which recognizes the hurt and pain, the terror and shame of sexual violence from which we women never do recover if our lives are not taken outright.

What is the true price of agreeing to the realization of this project?

I ask you to get out of your head and into your heart. To respond and to act as a real human being. What would that mean for the community you are sworn to serve? What would that mean for you?

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Comment From: carolyn atkinson

9/17/20 @ 5:53 AM
China is now considering going carbon neutral.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/china-considers-going-carbon-neutral-peaking-emissions/

This move demonstrates the volatility of the fossil fuel markets and how foolish and dangerous it would ...↓
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Comment From: Ellen McCann

9/17/20 @ 5:51 AM
Heck yeah we deserve a second EIR. Why wouldn't a project of this magnitude that have a more thorough review after we are witnessing all the devastation of climate change this year...super storms, hurricanes, fires!!! We the people deserve a safe, ...↓
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Comment From: Susan Vossler

9/17/20 @ 5:47 AM
I oppose the Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility. The latest EIS did not account for the full environmental impact on all affected communities.
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Comment From: Laura Baumgartner

9/17/20 @ 5:19 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.

Building ...↓

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,
Rev. Laura Baumgartner
2201 NE 4th St Renton, WA 98056-4073
associatepastor@rfumc.org
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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

9/17/20 @ 5:17 AM
Regarding the Northwest Innovation Works – Kalama Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility SSEIS, I am submitting the following comments:

The SSEIS states that "The project would increase greenhouse gas emissions within Washington state by almos...↓

In conclusion, I see no demonstrative proof that the Kalama facility would reduce worldwide net greenhouse gas emissions and I believe that the risks to the environment and the health and well being of local residents far outweigh any benefits.

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Comment From: Paul Spindel

9/17/20 @ 4:26 AM
The timing of these catastrophic fires and their link to climate change is a perfect example of why we must do better. We must do things differently. We cannot support a gigantic methanol plant and the damage it will cause locally and globally. Wheth...↓
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Comment From: Frank Marre

9/17/20 @ 4:21 AM
Northwest Innovation Works Proposal Kalama gas to methanol production and storage facility
Dear Department of Ecology
I oppose the proposal for human health and ecological reasons. I am a physician and public health specialist. The impact of pollutio...↓
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Comment From: S Jacky

9/17/20 @ 4:16 AM
Thank you for your work to protect Washingtons environment and for acknowledging that previous environmental analysis of Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) Methanol refinery proposal in Kalama, Washington have been inaccurate and inadequate.

This new D...↓

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. 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. 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.

I urge Ecology to dismiss the speculative basis that this project could displace even more polluting facilities. Instead, base the 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 must 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: Robin Donahue

9/17/20 @ 3:57 AM
NO. Please listen to those living in the community. we do not want this hazard in our city.
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Comment From: Karis Cooper

9/17/20 @ 3:50 AM
No Way !!!!
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Comment From: Merna Baker Blagg

9/17/20 @ 3:50 AM
Our world, country and state does not need an increase in hazardous pollutants. Healthy and clean air is what we all strive for and KMMEF would extremely increase the air quality to a devastating and toxic level. We are at a critical point in the c...↓
Please, as a concerned Gramma, born in Kelso, living in Vancouver, with 2 sons and their families living in Longview, I implore you to deny the permit for this project to move forward.

Merna Baker Blagg
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Comment From: Kathleeen Patton

9/17/20 @ 3:42 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.

Smoke signals. Obvious and tragic evidence of climate change is ravaging our state. Why would we want to ...↓

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,
Kathleeen Patton
1645 24th Ave Longview, WA 98632-3623
mok.patton@gmail.com
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Comment From: Lehman Holder

9/17/20 @ 3:22 AM
My wife and I are very strongly opposed to this proposed methanol plant, as are large numbers of Kalama, WA, residents. If the plant is built, we believe increased and unacceptable levels of greenhouse gases will be the result. We also oppose the hug...↓
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Comment From: Nancy Harrison

9/17/20 @ 2:58 AM
Dear Director Watson and Department of Ecology,

I oppose this proposal to build a methanol plant in Kalama and urge you to deny the permit to build it. This would be the world's largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, and would clearly substantiall...↓

NWIW misled your agency, and the public, about the purpose and impacts of the refinery. I am counting on Ecology to dismiss NWIW's misleading claims and accurately account for the project's upstream and downstream climate pollution.

For the community of Kalama and for our climate, the risk is simply too big. Please keep our communities safe, and keep Washington on track to meet our goals for reducing climate pollution. I am counting on you to do the right thing and stop this dirty, dangerous fossil fuel export project.

Thank you,
Nancy Harrison
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Comment From: Emily Herbert

9/17/20 @ 2:51 AM
Thoughtful holders of the Common Good for Washington's Environment,
I appeal to your care for the well-being of all earth's creatures. Yes you have mandates for specific regulations. But there is a larger more essential duty in this time of climacti...↓
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Comment From: Andrew Harris

9/17/20 @ 2:51 AM
W. Andrew Harris, MD
3969A N. Overlook Blvd
Portland, OR 97227

Sept. 17, 2020

To: Washington Department of Ecology
Re: Kalama Methanol Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

I am writing on behalf of my seven grandchildren who are too young to speak f...↓

If 40 percent of the methanol produced at the proposed Kalama facility is burned, as indicated by NWIW, it will yield 2 million tons of carbon pollution each year. The remainder of the methanol would become plastics in a world already overrun with discarded plastic waste. Methane gas along the supply chain to Kalama Methanol would be released into the atmosphere, increasing the carbon footprint of the project. Each methane molecule has 84 25 times the 20-year global warming potential of a carbon dioxide molecule, meaning that even small amounts of methane emissions have an enormous impact. If Washington State is to achieve its climate goal of keeping global warming "well below 2 degrees Celsius", it must deny the conversion of fracked gas to methanol.

Future energy needs must no longer be met by fossil fuels, including so-called "natural" gas, two-thirds of which in America is derived from fracking. Cleaner energy technologies are readily available, and battery storage capacity is rapidly improving. In the SEIS, NWIW identifies no specific projects or measures that will mitigate the release of methane from wellheads, from transmission pipes, and from the proposed refinery itself.

Washington's Department of Ecology needs to take a proactive position on behalf of our grandchildren and the survival of our planet. It should reject the proposed methanol refinery and deny NWIW a Shorelines Permit.

Thank you.

W. Andrew Harris, MD
andyharrismd@comcast.net
503-871-2011

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Comment From: Richard Marshall

9/17/20 @ 2:46 AM
This methanol proposal is extraordinarily pessimistic. The economic analysis behind the tired fossil fuel argument of "better than the alternative" is both shoddy and speculative. There is no possible progress in this type of analysis, no faith in ...↓

From a policy standpoint, it is crazy to believe that societies across the globe will not demand cleaner economic processes and less pollution. Look at our own situation -- earlier this year we had an example of much cleaner air. I heard a number of people comment about how amazing it was to spy Mt Jefferson on a regular basis. And this past week, we literally have had a taste of some of the worst air pollution in the world. People everywhere want cleaner air and are going to demand of their governments less pollution.

From a technology standpoint, we can and will do better. Right now renewable energy is the cheapest form of new energy in most places in the world. What we've done with renewables is an amazing achievement of human ingenuity and hard work applied to process improvement. This methanol proposal on the other hand, is a last gasp effort of a declining industry to take advantage of excess North American fracked gas and dump it on the world markets before stricter emissions policies can be put in place. The only thing clean about this methanol proposal would be the use of our federally subsidized clean renewable electricity to run the plant. That is our energy and we have better uses including heating and cooling our homes and hopefully reducing the emissions from our cars so we can have cleaner air.

Please analyze this proposal for what it is -- an unmitigated fossil fuel export proposal with no hope of captured or sequestered emissions. Please don't rely on pessimistic speculation that lacks analytic rigor, ignores recent technical achievements in renewable energy, and dramatically discounts the basic human desire for clean air and a livable planet. Thank you.

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Comment From: Rick Rappaport

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Let me see if I have this right, the applicant says Washington state, that plastic demand is so strong, now and for the next 40 years, that if they don't build the 40-year project with Frak gas ink China, China will build using cold by the same time ...↓
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Comment From: Mike Reuter

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello my name is Mike Ruger and I'm speaking here as an individual and not as mayor of Kalama.  I am opposed and some of the issues I will speak on now. The Northwest energy and for structure as a real thing, looming energy shortage caused by th...↓

Thank you very much. 
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Comment From: Rachael Hogan

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Hello my name is Rachel Hogan and eight resident of Seattle, the  territory of dash mac people. I had to run for my life, from a place where the drinking water was poisoned, people and animals were being poisoned years after the industr...↓

I know firsthand the devastation of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

I know what these things are like firsthand and that's why I am here. And now you don't need to use your imagination to understand the gravity of climate change. Because for most people things maybe just got real. This is exactly what economic totality looks like if Northwest innovation works guess to build. How many of us have lost our jobs? Not all prisoners inside of it are lucky. Our economy already in the toilet. About the draft analysis on the methanol refinery without touching on how damning it would be for water, upstream, on-site and downstream literally and not even adjusting for the low leakage figures by including top-down measurements on the estimates using U.S. locations. This massive refinery is expected to release at least 4.6 million tons of GHGs into the atmosphere each year. And it does not and will not meet the states climate goals. Period.  Meanwhile our kids are not having a childhood. They are suffering in every way, this is being framed as a lesser evil or, it is shameful and absolutely sickening. We are counting on you to say no. Reject the permit and allow for the creativity that comes out of necessity for better solutions. Ink you for your time. 
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Comment From: Richard Marshall

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak. This methanol proposal is extraordinarily pessimistic, economic analysis behind the tired fossil fuel argument of better than the alternative as shoddy and speculative. No possible progress i...↓

Number of people comment about how amazing it was in this past week we literally have a taste of the worst air pollution in the world. People everywhere want cleaner air and demand of the government for less pollution.

From a technology standpoint we can and will do better. Right now renewable energies with a form of new energy in most places in the world. What we have done with renewables is an amazing achievement of human engineered he and hard work applied to process improvement. This methanol postal on the other hand is a last gas effort-- the only thing green about this proposal would be the use of our federally subsidized clean renewable electricity to run the plant. That is our energy and better uses including heating and cooling our homes, hopefully reducing emissions from our cars so we can have inner air. Please analyze this proposal for what it is. An unmitigated fossil fuel export proposal with no hope of captured or sequestered emissions. Please don't rely on pessimistic speculation, relax analytic rigor that has technical advancements and renewable energies and discounts a livable planet and clean air. Thank you 
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Comment From: Linda Leonard

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you very much Linda Leonard I'm a resident of Kalama,  make no mistake about it the state of Washington and the world does not need the proposed methanol refinery to be built spirit Northwest innovation works has used the rational...↓
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Comment From: Mark Urhart

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you, my name is Mark, we live in the foothills overlooking the Columbia River. We are against this project. We purchased this property so we can enjoy the unobstructed view of the Columbia River and enjoy recreation and dining in the l...↓

By using the term in-state, Northwest innovation works is not willing to negate GHG's outside the state of Washington. This includes the fusion of methane and methanol burn and transport to China and as a fuel for the production. This is only one of the many glaring errors I saw and I will put the rest in writing. This project is a climate killer and the only responsible decision is for ecology to deny the shoreline permit. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Mary Paterson

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  Yes we can hear you.

>> Great, good afternoon to the washington Department of ecology and everyone hear from the communities. Someday I hope to be on the same side and we are working for green jobs. I am married Patterson, descend...↓

Did the authors or any of you here today viewed the video of called chasing methane on YouTube, again chasing methane on YouTube or anyone interested. According to Noah, Lake are not 1 or 2 or 3% speculative report but some cases over 10%. Fails to use top-down leak measurements and thank you very much. 
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Comment From: Matt Gamel

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> And Q I'm an environmental scientist and we recently moved out from the keys, because the hurricanes was becoming unbearable. As close as everyone knows the West Coast is now on fire. Great place to move. Laura Watson if you have any questio...↓
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Comment From: Melanie Plaut

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  Hello this is Melanie cloud, today I'm testifying as salmon, I'm only sorry you can't see my lovely fins and tail. The trouble with using humans to tell a story is they freak on climate change.

Let me lay out the facts. Global warming t...↓
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Comment From: IBEW Local 48, Columbia Pacifi... (Michael Bridges)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
my name is Mike urges and I'm a father of two teenage children who spent most of our days at work or school and the call me River. I appreciate the opportunity to be able to give comment on behalf of myself and the thousands of building trades men an...↓

That's why we support this project. But going back to the local billing traits and affiliates partnered with Northwest innovations to maximize this investment in the region. Along with that, one of the goals was also to help protect the environment and the beautiful Columbia River we all love and rely on so much. Early on we found the innovation shared the same values and over the last six years have back that up with commitments to 0 liquid discharge and technologies and 100 percent mitigation plan for Washington state. We are very excited about the opportunity to move this project forward and I would say equally excited that we have a project that has helped a new higher standard for the environment and future development along the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon on. With that would urge the Department of ecology to expedite any process left so we can start building this facility and we can start reducing read house gases as soon as possible. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Cyan Strategies (Michael Mann)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  I run a sustainability insulting firm and Seattle cyan strategies in the former director of the office of sustainability environment. Three years ago many of the environmental unity question global greenhouse gas impacts of the project...↓
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Comment From: State Representative, 19th Dis... (Jim Walsh)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Hello I'm Jim Walsh, a steep representative in Olympia for the nineteenth district, including parts of Cowlitz county but not Kalama.  Kalama is our neighbor. And I am encouraged by the department of ecology's draft second supplemental ...↓
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Comment From: Boilermakers Union Local 242 (Luke Lafley)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you my name is Luke law fee, I made business manager Local 242, I support this on many fronts, jobs obviously 1,000 construction jobs over a three-year period. 200 permanent jobs in the community and another 500 indirect jobs. Not to m...↓

Thank you for your time. 
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Comment From: Kurt Anagnostu

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
I was born here, went away to high school and college and law school in California but I have came back to practice law and racy family. I have three sisters and a brother and families that continue to live in Calais County. I have a  heartfelt ...↓

And to make Calais County the best place it can be. Personally I have a theory that if I do all I can to improve my community and make it a better place to live and everyone did that same thing, together we could make the world a better place to live. That mindset in 2000 I ran was a listed to run on the city Council. I served cold beers on the Council and the last four of which I was Mayor city of Longview. Following that I ran for Cowlitz PD Commissioner. I can tell you being a lifelong Commissioner of Cowlitz County jobs are crucial. We have a higher unemployment rate generally. Historically it seems we have the first to lose jobs in the last to get them back. However weighing jobs against the environment is no question. I'm sitting here in my office looking out at the haze from the fires. There is no question that the environment takes precedent. The question for me becomes whether the plant will be built somewhere else. And has an insatiable appetite for plastic. Everything is made out of plastic. The computer case, the cell phone, what holds the windows in place as all plastic. And this will be built somewhere else and more polluting, the benefits to our county outweigh that. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Kathleen Patton

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Kathleen Patton and I am a 20-year resident of Cowlitz County and  like many previous speakers I want to underline any imagine ecological unfit from this power plant is based on speculation and many, many assumptions while the facts a...↓
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Comment From: Washington State Building and ... (Mark Riker)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you my name is Mark Raker the executive secretary of Washington State building and construction trades Council representing approximately 80,000 construction workers here in Washington state. We strongly support this project, permittin...↓
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Comment From: Mark Keely

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Good afternoon my name is Mark Keeley I've been a resident for four years. My wife and I  move to Southwest Washington and fortunate to find a home that shares our core values. We found a quiet acre home on green mountain roads with woods and Ri...↓
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Comment From: Cambria Keely

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Hello my name is Andrea Healy, I'm in my fourth year av bachelors at Washington University and protesting the refinery for one quarter of my life. Thousands of precious hours day and night on holidays and birthdays to defeating this and tell...↓

Every time I visit my 93-year-old father, he asked me when I plan to start a family and how many kids I want to raise. I tell him I would like to have 1 or 2 kids in my thirties. I don't tell him is that I'm terrified of what the world will look like in 20 to 30 years. Will my children have to wear a mask every where to decrease the pollutant inhalation and showing photos of a clean healthy Columbia River? Article 5 Section 1 of-- states everyone has the standard of living adequate [Indiscernible] I cannot in good function pass on to my children the burden of spending every day fighting for basic human rights.

We will not allow the consequences of the consumption of the world's largest methanol refinery here, the consequences are unavoidable and Columbia is the GESS River in our region, loosing toxins into the air that is usually clean and healthy. And the greenhouse gases. It is your mission to preserve, protect and enhance ecology and counting on you to quash this fossil fuel project.

We believe we can do other than to enforce a fossil gas dependent economy. I'm here to ask you with utmost earnestness to please deny the permits for the proposed methanol refinery.
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Comment From: Sally Keely

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Hello, my name is Sally Keeley I'm an educator mother and longtime resident of Kalama,  my husband and I own five acres home outside of the city. Have been working actively to stop the refinery for 4.5 years. As a mathematician I would ...↓
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Comment From: Sept Gernez

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
 Hello I'm an organizer your with the CR club. I represent 3.8 million supporters across the country counting on you to deny this project.

The club z mission is to explore, enjoy and protect the planet. This project would destroy the local enviro...↓
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Comment From: Sharon Bucher

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello my name is Dr. Sharon Busher, I practice pediatrics in Vancouver for 35 years and lived in Battleground Washington. I first learned about greenhouse gases global warming, and premed classes in the seventies. It took 20 years to make it to the f...↓
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Comment From: Sherry Hession

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
my name is Sherry Hirsch and I live in Spokane Washington.  I am a concern citizen and grandkids that live near Longview, I'm against the project, against Canadian company shipping Frak gas to our state were a Chinese company to use our water to...↓

To make more plastic and bird methanol for Canadian and Chinese companies. Also the fires polluting the air now in Washington states are partly caused by drought in California, Washington and Oregon on. Millions of gallons of water are used for fracking oil. And there are millions of them. And this project would encourage more fracking and make our drought worse. Or fire equals more loss of life, property, unhealthy air and making everything unhealthy. My grandkids play in that water there. And now my granddaughter has trouble breathing. We need to invest in clean energy, I have been taking a poll on how many people are against this project.

I counted so far 51 to 11. 51 against, and please listen to the numbers and deny this project. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Cowlitz Economic Development C... (Ted Sprague)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Ted, I'm the president of the nonprofit-- economic development Council, I have lived in Longview with my wife and children for 20 years. Academic develop my counsel is a membership raised operation since 1979.

Since COVID began we have help...↓
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Comment From: Theodora Isongus

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Theodora s address, environment, health scientist and epidemiologist with over 44 years experience evaluating effects of environmental pollutants. I fear the Washington Department of ecology is not taking science seriously. An...↓

 Increase gas emissions in order to have a  livable future. When there is overwhelming scientific evidence that we must make drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions now.

We can't afford to go down this suicidal path. We are assaulted by catastrophic climate disruption causing increased heat, droughts, wildfires, and breathable air, increased illness and death from heat, storms, diseases, no mac of lung disease, aggravated by air pollution, displacing thousands of  people and what more of a wake-up call do you need? Please deny the shorelines permit and reject this proposal. 
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Comment From: Therese Livella

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Like many others I find myself wanting to curl up and cry. I cry for the insatiable inevitable consumption, and all the awful events that have culminated in 2020. I would have my sliding door open all the methanol comments to the sound of windchimes ...↓

You just live with that.

You live with air you can't breathe, water you can't drink catfish you can't eat, let this be your legacy. Deny permits for innovation works. 
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Comment From: Rob Harris

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Manufacturing facilities that provides paper and cardboard for all the purchasing being made by Amazon, that is the preferred rate of shopping these days. Not to mention the bulk of the power coming from the coal-fired facility-- which I think everyo...↓
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Comment From: Rory Cowal

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello my name is Rory and I live across the Columbia in Portland. I today I am urging you to reject the proposal that would present a great risk to our communities any huge setback in the efforts for greenhouse gas emissions. We need to transfer foss...↓
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Comment From: Ruth Dallas

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
 My name is Ruth Dallas, I'm not a scientist but I'm a nurse and mother and grandmother. I would like to speak from my heart. The dangers of fossil fuel are no longer in question. One does not need to visit the site of an environmental group rat...↓
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Comment From: Tracy Ceravalo

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
A new fossil fuel facility will help the climates. Seeing this will help the claimant is like saying-- the grave is the one we are digging for ourselves. To put this in perspective the head of research, Exxon, that few people felt the world has enter...↓
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Comment From: Tina Brakefield

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Tina break field, I live in Vancouver and work as a stay-at-home mother to a 3-year-old daughter in run a sustainability law. I've come here today to talk about the refined ability project and how and why against it. Most of what I've writ...↓

It is happening because I am one of them. I was born in 1979 which was the first year that they did I think a climate change analysis. And for the entirety of my life, I have been watching things change. From when I was a young child until now. I have been dealing with, in Texas, 115 up to 120 ° summers nonstop for years now. People will be leaving that region. Because it will become inhabitable. And lastly I would like to say real quick, some numbers here. Someone mentioned we have a project giving 30 to $40 million in revenue. You know how much damage the fires will do, 130 to 150 billion in losses. So from million 2 billion do the mass. And reject this project and the refinery in the shoreline project for this. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Marylyn Cornwell

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Rev. Dr. Marilyn Carmel, I may retired Episcopal priest, scientist and member of ort of earth ministry. A person of faith I believe in a just and sustainable future. And clean air, clearing skies, clean water and abundant water are the bir...↓

I know a bit about the risk of fossil fuel plants for communities near them. I did my graduate work and self Texas where air and water pollution from oil and chemical plants has devastated human communities and the oceans living creatures. With long-term consequences for all the environmental of a station caused by the gas refined into methanol begins  right where it is ran into the ground. I listened to the-- what the land and his family for over 150 years, because of Frank mining his family can no longer use it to drink. Leaks during fracking, transportation, refining it into methanol and then shipping the methanol overseas for youth are linked in a chain of illusion around the neck of the people and creatures of this plan. That was regularly contribute to greenhouse gas pollution. The cry that we cannot breathe becomes even greater if that chain tightens. Is the moral and spiritual obligation to confront the misinformation, speculation and omissions about the environmental effects of ethanol production by NWIW. The environmental cost to the many far outweigh any profit that would be made by the few. I urge you to deny the shoreline permit for the plant. The lives of the most vulnerable among us and those in future generations depend on it. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Marilyn Cornwell

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Rev. Dr. Marilyn Carmel, I may retired Episcopal priest, scientist and member of ort of earth ministry. A person of faith I believe in a just and sustainable future. And clean air, clearing skies, clean water and abundant water are the bir...↓

I know a bit about the risk of fossil fuel plants for communities near them. I did my graduate work and self Texas where air and water pollution from oil and chemical plants has devastated human communities and the oceans living creatures. With long-term consequences for all the environmental of a station caused by the gas refined into methanol begins  right where it is ran into the ground. I listened to the-- what the land and his family for over 150 years, because of Frank mining his family can no longer use it to drink. Leaks during fracking, transportation, refining it into methanol and then shipping the methanol overseas for youth are linked in a chain of illusion around the neck of the people and creatures of this plan. That was regularly contribute to greenhouse gas pollution. The cry that we cannot breathe becomes even greater if that chain tightens. Is the moral and spiritual obligation to confront the misinformation, speculation and omissions about the environmental effects of ethanol production by NWIW. The environmental cost to the many far outweigh any profit that would be made by the few. I urge you to deny the shoreline permit for the plant. The lives of the most vulnerable among us and those in future generations depend on it. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Chris Chapin

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
I'm a resident of Washington, a concerned citizen. And I am here to oppose this project. I do want to thank you for your time. To take public comments. And that is really the issue we have here is an issue of time. We don't have time to be screwing a...↓
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Comment From: Bryant Mullin

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Thank you name is Ryan Mullen, I may Local 26 member, 27-year member. I work in the building trades as construction electrician, wireman, I've worked on many of these industrial projects. Nuclear power houses, dams, all of these kind of things. Mills...↓
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Comment From: JH Kelly (Masono Evans)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
 Hello my name is Mason Evans, I'm the president of JH Kelly, road union construction firm headquartered in Longview Washington. I value environment and support actions that reduce double greenhouse gases particularly use of transitional feedsto...↓

For these reasons I ask the department of ecology to accept the conclusions and issues the shoreline and other necessary permits for the ethanol facility. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Sierra Club (Victoria Leistman)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello there my name is Tori and I'm an organizer with Sierra Club. This past week I've actually been replaying in my mind the first moments I learned about how dire the crisis became back when I was in college. And the-- pandemic them back to my dorm...↓
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Comment From: Mary Lou Dickerson

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello this is retired state represented Mary Lou Dickerson, I lived in Seattle in the past two weeks my fellow residents have been choking on smoke caused by the fires pick these are directly related to climate change as has been noted by the governo...↓
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Comment From: Vic Leatzow

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Good afternoon-- community since Kalama was founded. [[ Background interference [ fire radio ]] this project would increase the budget and reduce the fire rate and increase the ability to upgrade on staffing. Which we have not done since 2002. We hav...↓

And safety precautions and safety systems in place with all the codes. And different than what the other industrial partners have. With that being said, we ask that this has been looked at three different times now and to move forward with this project and we hope that ecology takes out the emotion and looks at the facts. And moves forward with allowing the permits to be issued. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Susan Schwartz

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Okay this project a violation of the greenhouse gas reduction that we in the legislature and state of Washington has been working on. I look outside and what is going on with the weather and all the people out there that live in the homes, they are h...↓
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Comment From: Tom Luce

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
Hello this is Tom, I'm a resident of Cowlitz County, this will displace globally tons of gas of greenhouse emissions. On top of it it will mitigate for everything that happens in this state. I think it is important when we listen to the arguments in ...↓
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Comment From: Cameron Wilkinson

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  I'm taking this to menace to talk about my support of this project. And my disappointment in the constant change in expectations of these companies that are bringing transitional fuel to the state of Washington. And it seems like every...↓

For manufacturing up things we all use every day. Plastic, it's in everything, our clothing, a goes down medical supplies, everything. So I am just more or less as a citizen of Calais County I'm getting very frustrated with setting the bar constantly and the other issues of the production of methanol for the forest fires, things like that. This has nothing to do with this project for forest fires are happening because we have changed regulations on the forest to clean them up. And mother nature is taking care of the problem. I just want to end with that, I support this project. Thank you. 
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Comment From: Deena Grossman

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you very much I am Dena speaking from Portland Oregon, less than 35 miles from Kalama,  Washington. Thank you for taking public comments. We can't breathe. This week, the letter to President Trump saying is time to abandon the dis...↓
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Comment From: Diane Dick

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Thank you I am Diane Dick  and a resident and setting the project for years. This would be one of the largest in the world. And told me personally it was because many pollution control centers would be too costly with CR and cheaper to ...↓

Information in the air discharge permit, this refinery has the capacity to admit over 1 million metric tons of GhD's every year just on the process site. And NWIW states they will mitigate all in-state emissions and first priority will be given to projects in Tellis County, please give us specific examples of the mitigation projects and their ability to sequester read house gases from the atmosphere. The only viable way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is bike growing trees or crops. According to the EPA greenhouse gas calculator it would take 1,306,000 acres of forest land to remove 1 million tons of this in a year. It only comprises of about seven harm forty six,000 acres. There is no way I and the NWIW will be able to mitigate the infractions and this county or all of Southwest Washington. Demand accountability for a real plan now because you surely won't get voluntary compliance later. Let NWIW one more company that tries to buy its way out of-- 
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Comment From: Elijah Cetas

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Yes I'm a member of the-- by creating millions of good job in renewable economy, the sunrise movement exist to break the false narrative that has been peddled by fossil fuel companies and the myth that we can't have jobs without watching the...↓
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Comment From: Jean Avery

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Good afternoon everyone. I am Jean Avery, resident of Vancouver Washington. We have heard components of the NWIW project say that this refinery would be good for jobs couldn't. Why would we invite more pollution into our region for 40 years?...↓

This would not reduce actual emissions. Number three, does ecology have resources to oversee this project? Instead ecology could focus on proactive measures for a clean energy future. Number 4, 40 years is plenty of time to enact mean energy programs. When NWIW claims its operation is less polluting and other sources and assumes other fossil fuel sources. I believe we are on the cost of a clean energy future.

It is time to say goodbye to fossil fuel projects. Please deny this project. 
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Comment From: Jessica Zimmerle

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> My name is Jessica Zimmerli and I'm the program and-- in my work I see faith communities across the state who are doing everything that they can make their facilities more efficient and sustainable. Currently in conversation with five congre...↓

All you need to do is look outside at the smoke hitting the region. The climate crisis is here and the communities are hurting. Please hear the prophetic try that it's time to move beyond fossil fuels. Current market conditions do not provide justification for investment in 40 years of pollution. If anything, 2020 has shown us that we cannot predict the future. And the only sure thing in this analysis is that this refinery will be a major looter. We don't have time for that. We do have time to change the market. Denying this comma is the first step to doing so. We do not have to  way this against other dirty fossil fuel facilities that don't exist. And said based on the stewardship, justice, reflected in our state s shared climate and clean energy goals. We need you to be join us as prophets, pave the path to a low carbon future. Take the moral high road. Do what is right and reject this harmful gas facility. 
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Comment From: John Flynn

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
My name is Don Flynn and I'm a resident of Kalama Washington and I fish in the Colombia River, and I'm adamantly opposed to the construction of the methanol refinery on the shore of the call be a river. Primarily on environmental grounds and secondar...↓
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Comment From: JJ L.

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  This methanol refinery would be going 180 ° in the wrong direction. No more fossil fuel infrastructure. We are beyond that time and considering putting this refinery in one of the largest and most treasured rivers in the nation would b...↓
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Comment From: Columbia River Keeper (Kate Murphy)

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>> Yes my name is Kate Murphy I'm a community organizer with Columbia River keeper. Recent weeks we have witnessed communities gathering together to show support and provide aid for those suffering unimaginable losses. Losses that are the resul...↓

We are at a point in history where your decisions now truly shape the health and safety of the communities in this region and beyond for decades to come. The methanol refinery would worsen the crisis and cause comma just pollution. Urinalysis makes this clear. The project would generate 4.6 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year and up to 9.4 million tons of pollution if we assume a higher rate of pain releases during the fracking process. The number goes even higher if we assume all of it is burned as fuel which we know is the intention of request innovation works having advertised this liquid sunshine to investors while simultaneously misleading ecology and the public for years.

Let's see it for what it is.

A massive polluter.

You have been provided everything you need to deny this dangerous proposal.

There is no one who believes that believes will be the largest refinery will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's your duty to look at what we now.

This proposal will be a massive polluter and total opposition to Washington's climate goals and healthy future. We deserve better and calling on you to stand up for the people of this region for our environment, for the future. We are counting on you to do the right thing and deny this gas refinery. Take you. 
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Comment From: Don Steinke

9/16/20 @ 5:00 PM
>>  My wife and I are using the same computer and she will testify after me. I am a retired science teacher, 40 years mostly at Vancouver I with the, it had been difficult to get all the states related to a proposal. Maker requires you to&...↓

Where it is not. They are advertising on TV and Facebook right now about the pathway, their pathway to the clean sustainable future. And all the emissions are accounted for, gases nearly as bad as coal and ethanol is worse. Methanol is the opposite and it is a pollution added product. That are to use the fuel at the source then to add the illusion generated by a methanol plant. The gas industry has known about climate change for decades. What has engaged in the campaign of deception to help sell the products. They have fooled most of the public and elected officials. Pulled the green groups as well. Until we learned about methane leaks in 2014. And out trying to full you with the displacement theory. Don't believe anything they say and get rid of the speculation and the EIS and protect the future and say no to the destruction. Now my wife who is registered to speak. 
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