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. CRK is the lead organization assisting the community fight this refinery.

Power Past Fracked Gas is a coalition of PNW groups that oppose fracked fossil-gas and support clean energy.

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

Featured Information Sheets & Op-Eds
by Local Citizen Activists and Researchers

• CO₂ Emissions Stopped from Cowlitz County Projects in Last Decade (4/2021) by Diane Dick, Longview

• OP-ED: Twisted Logic: Why Washington State Should Reject a Dangerous New Climate Theory (12/2020) by Sally Keely, Kalama, and Lauren Goldberg

• 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" (9/3/2020) and "Kalama Methanol 'Benefits' Assume Catastrophic Climate Failure" (9/23/2020). IMPORTANT READS!

	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