Lead Orgs, Citizen Groups, State Agencies

Columbia Riverkeeper is the lead organization assisting the community fight this refinery assisted by orgs (sidebar). The NoMethanol360 team works closely with our local citizen partners Lower Columbia Stewardship Community (LCSC).

Washington Department of Ecology published their draft second supplemental environmental impact statement (DSSEIS) on 9/2. Comment period is now closed. We expect Ecology to publish the final SSEIS and make a decision on key shorelines permits by the end of the year. Ecology's permitting process for NWIW's KMR includes documents, FAQs, timeline, and copies/transcripts of public comments.

Top Websites for Anti-Methanol Information

Columbia Riverkeeper's "Methanol Resources" page includes printable fact sheets, info on hearings and comment periods, updates on legal challenges, and links to news articles.

Power Past Fracked Gas is a coalition of PNW groups that oppose fracked fossil-gas and support clean energy. Site updated regularly with new videos, docs, events.

Sightline Institute's methanol research/articles are well documented with useful data, charts, and infographics.

Featured Information Sheets
by Local Citizen Activists and Researchers

• OP-ED: Candidates' Silence on Methanol Plant is Deafening (10/2020) by Diane Dick, Longview

• NWIW GHGs Electric Power (5/2020) by Diane Dick, Longview (related: M. Uhart's Notes on D. Dick's source)

• Scope of SSEIS Review (5/2020) by Mark Uhart, Kalama

• Dock Use Agreement Amendment (5/2020) by Sally Keely, Kalama

• Jobs for Cowlitz County? NO! H1B Visas to Chinese Workers (9/2019) by Mark Uhart, Kalama (related: CRK's Reality Check (2016) and American Factory documentary)

• NWIW vs. Reality (9/2018) by Diane Dick, Longview

• What KMR will cost Taxpayers (8/2018) by Linda Horst, Kelso, based on CRK's Project Financial Summary

Rad Reads (below), Great Graphics (sidebar)

The windfall of benefits to taxpayers is all a big ruse. See Taxpayers on the Hook for the Entire $2 Billion, Pacific Standard 11/2018, and Subsidies would Violate Federal ‘Double Dipping’ Rules, DeSmogBlog 10/2019.

NWIW presentation (1/2019) telling investors Kalama methanol's primary end use is to be burned as fuel while lying to public, state agencies, and gov. regulators by stating purpose was solely for plastic production. (See Archives >> April 2019 for a History of Kalama methanol as fuel)

Excellent series by Sightline Institute "Fracked Fuel & Petrochemical Projects in the Pacific Northwest" with extensive details about methanol and hydraulic fracturing including "Three Reasons Why Kalama Methanol Project Would Be a Climate Disaster" (4/2018)
Two new Sightline analyses followed release of Ecology's draft SSEIS: "New Analysis Proves Kalama Methanol Project is a Climate Disaster" (9/2020) and "Kalama Methanol 'Benefits' Assume Catastrophic Climate Failure" (9/2020).

	Seattle's Stockholm Environment Institute's report "Towards a Climate Test for Industry: Assessing a Gas-based Methanol Plant" (2/2018) on GHG emissions from Kalama methanol refinery finds if built it would become Washington's top contributor to climate pollution by 2025.

Earth Justice's "What You Need to Know about the World's Largest Fracked Gas-to-Methanol Refinery" (5/2018)

Columbia Riverkeeper's white paper “Methanol Refining and Export on the Columbia: What You Need to Know" (7/2016) (or the one page version)

	Sightline Institute's "Kalama's Methanol Refinery by-the-Numbers" (10/2016) is a well-sourced detailed article by energy policy expert Eric de Place.

Awesome Audios, Vital Videos