I urge you to write your Congressmen and women to stop the Kalama methanol plant. The unforeseen risks, such as an overdue earthquake along the Cascadia fault, outweigh the benefits of the proposed methanol plant to be built on the Columbia River.
As an example, the Japanese are known to have some of the toughest safety regulations in the world, yet Fukushima proved to be an epic disaster of unforeseen events that are still being felt today in Japan.
The methanol plant, in my opinion, cannot be safe enough given our geological history. Methanol is highly flammable, as seen from the 2012 explosion of roughly 10,000 gallons at a chemical plant owned by Nexeo Solutions in Garland, Texas. The Kalama plant proposes 8 million gallons of capacity, and this would be only a half-mile across the Columbia River from the decommissioned Trojan nuclear plant that still has radioactive material at its site. Did I mention Fukushima?
Please take the time to write your Congressmen and women to stop the Kalama methanol plant.
