Re: “Puget Sound Vitality cancels liquefied pure gasoline plant enlargement in Tacoma” [Jan. 24, Local News]:
Thanks, Puget Sound Vitality! We in Western Washington can breathe simpler now that methane growth in Tacoma has stopped. The Puyallup Tribe has gained its battle in opposition to the enlargement of PSE’s liquefied pure gasoline terminal on the Tacoma Waterway. Since 2019, the tribe and plenty of others involved about poisonous methane from LNG vegetation had voiced vocal opposition to the Tacoma waterfront growth.
Methane is named “pure” gasoline, an oxymoron, as it’s a potent greenhouse gasoline that’s dangerous to human well being and to the ambiance. There’s analysis displaying that individuals on this nation typically misunderstand that LNG is way much less dangerous than gasoline or oil. Nonetheless, it spews poisonous methane into the ambiance throughout its manufacturing, pipeline transport and use in family home equipment.
In the meantime, the US Division of Vitality has put its approvals for an enormous LNG export complicated on the Gulf Coast on maintain, responding to citizen and scientific opposition. Let’s be sure President Joe Biden is aware of there isn’t a place for LNG in our future.
Allow us to breathe a sigh of reduction – and of cleaner air.
Deborah Stewart, Seattle