Dear Mayor Woodards and Council Members, First off, let us thank you for past years of interim regulations that have protected Tacoma from new polluting projects while we commence the subarea planning process. Now, with another term of the protections…
Puget Sound Energy is trying to complete construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas facility in the Port of Tacoma. It is quite a complex facility with five major components: Refinery Storage facility Marine bunkering facility Tanker truck facility Peak-shaving facility…
An international regulatory body for the shipping industry is finding that Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is merely a “complicated and ultimately unproductive shift from one fossil fuel to another.” Meanwhile, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is poised to issue…
The PSE-LNG facility being built on the Tacoma Tideflats is deeply, deeply flawed. Both the process and the content of the governmental oversight are at fault. The State Attorney General has called the official documentation governing the project “fictional.” Governor…
by Kathi White We are all very fortunate to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in the 60’s on the East Side of Tacoma. I remember playing in the forest at a very…
by Kathi WhiteFebruary 17, 2019 Seems that lately, we have been flooded with too much negative information! The nightly news is full of catastrophes, insanely severe weather, shootings, politics and political scandals. I honestly cannot watch the news sometimes. Many…
by Bradley Thompson The WPPSS (pronounced “whoops”) debacle of the early 1980s offers some interesting parallels to today. Back in the 1970s and 80s, speculators believed that cheap “clean” nuclear power would be the energy of the future. Through the…
by Rachael DeSouza On July 6th, members of 350 Tacoma hosted a first Renewable Energy gathering. Thank you to everyone who participated in the thoughtful, focused, and fun conversation. And thanks to the team of hosts for the delicious food…
Why Liquefied Natural Gas? How did Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) come to be seen as viable fuel source for ships? Why is a refinery and storage tank being built in the Port of Tacoma? To answer this, let’s first go…
by Tracy Wiegman On May 7th, 2018, Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) made a decision to delay the conversion of their ships, the Midnight Sun and the North Star, to burn Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The adjustment to the conversion…
