Basic Facts about Proposed Methanol Refinery

• By far the largest methanol refinery in the world.
  About as large as all 7 existing U.S. methanol refineries.
• Increases WA state's total fracked gas use by over 33%.
  Would use more gas than all other industries in WA combined.
  
• Increases WA state's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
  Would become WA's top climate polluter by 2025.
• Emits more than 1 million tons of GHG from smokestack.
  Emits up to 7M tons when include “upstream” methane leakage.
• Obligates us to decades of fossil fuel infrastructure.
  Fracked gas pipelines leak methane! [Methane Maps]
• NWIW is a new LLC company backed by the Chinese government.
  NWIW has never built or operated a methanol refinery.
• New process of producing methanol never tested on this scale.
  
• Only 1 permanent job per acre most not hired from Cowlitz Co.
• All to make more plastics to further clog our oceans.

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