Join the call for clean air, healthy salmon runs, a stable climate, and an end to plastics pollution.
Devastating images of plastic garbage floating in the ocean, or birds mistaking bottle caps for food, make me sick. Many people associate Earth Month with cleaning up plastics and other trash along our rivers and ocean beaches. This month, my mind is on the building blocks of plastics—and empowering people to stop a major climate polluter on the Columbia.
Did you know that the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed along the Columbia River in Kalama, WA, would feed the plastics industry? The refinery would consume massive amounts of fracked gas to create liquid methanol, a feedstock for plastics. The company has also proposed burning the methanol as a fuel in Asia.
April is Earth Month—a great time to tell Washington’s Governor Inslee what you think about the world’s largest methanol refinery. Our goal: 5,000 new voices opposed to the Kalama methanol refinery. Sign this letter and post this link on Facebook asking your friends to take action.
Join the call for clean air, healthy salmon runs, a stable climate, and an end to plastics pollution. Follow Columbia Riverkeeper via social media to learn more about the refinery and stay updated on progress toward the 5,000 voices goal.
By 2025, the Kalama methanol refinery would be Washington’s number one cause of greenhouse gas pollution. And for what? Northwest Innovation Works will export methanol to China to make plastics.
🌎 Join us this Earth Month to amplify our voices, watch this video to find out how you can help:
