by Tracy Wiegman Today I rode the bus to Seattle with Claudia Riedener and we went to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency board meeting where we joined a beautiful coalition of people from Power Past Fracked Gas, Physicians for…
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 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…
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…
The action behind the case Last December Carlo Voli and I climbed a crane at the construction site of Puget Sound Energy’s LNG plant on the Tacoma Tideflats. We stayed there for the duration of the work day. (That kicked…
by Carol Kindt Court Date: February 20, 2018 The municipal court hearing on February 20, 2018 for the four people arrested in December 2017, Stephen Way, Carlo Voli, Sarah Long, and Juan Delgado began in confusion. Steve Way’s attorney Blake…