“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
I hope Northwest Innovation Works reads this quote. According to its new supplemental environmental impact statement, burning more fossil fuels is good for the climate!
They’ve cooked the books by cherry-picking the most favorable studies on fracking and making extremely generous assumptions about China’s future economy. The result? A study concluding that building the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery — a facility that will be one of Washington’s single largest sources of greenhouse gas pollution — is a win for the climate.
This is a laughable conclusion. NWIW is in it for the money, not the climate. If they were concerned about the climate, they would be proposing a facility to recycle plastics, not produce more.
Building new fossil fuel export terminals is not how we confront climate change. NWIW is spewing lies. Don’t buy it.
Linda Horst
Kelso
