Puget Sound Energy is yet again trying to increase rates for residential gas and electric customers. Part of this will be to pay for the construction costs of their Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility that the Puyallup Tribe is still…
On Tuesday night, almost four years exactly to the date that the Interim Regulations were first enacted, the Tacoma City Council passed a set of Non Interim Regulations to replace them. They will remain in place while the rezoning of…
If you want the quick version of this, know that we still want the city to pass the Non Interim Regulations as proposed by the Planning Commission. No amendments, no expansion, no exceptions! If you need more background on this…
Dressed in white doctor’s coats, volunteers from 350 Tacoma paraded a 16-foot wide pair of glasses from 311 Puyallup Avenue to Tollefson Plaza, handing out 200 flyers to curious passersby. Playing the role of concerned optometrists, the group hopes that…
As many of you know, the Puyallup Tribe and concerned residents of Tacoma and beyond have been fighting Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility for years now. In reality it is a fracked methane gas refinery (also producing…
In November 2017, the City of Tacoma passed the Tideflats Interim Regulations to protect the Tacoma Tideflats (the Port’s so called MIC, or Manufacturing Industrial Center) from new fossil fuel and heavy industrial uses. These Interim Regulations initially lasted for…
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson recently filed an amicus brief, joining the Puyallup Tribe and Earthjustice in calling the analysis of Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas facility unacceptable. The facility, which will process and store methane, is also referred…
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…
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…