Ever wonder how a bird feels watching its nesting tree cut down? How it feels to move tree by tree, as ever more habitat is “utilized”? Well, you are that bird. “Progress” may not have hit your tree, yet, but it has compromised, if not destroyed, much of our whole country.
Remarkably, the Pacific Northwest recognized the dangers of over-industrialization years ago. We have cleaned up smelters and pulp mills. We have made logging and fishing sustainable. We wrote the book on recycling. Unfortunately, what we have is attractive, not only to us, but to those wanting nothing more than big money, as quickly and easily as possible.
The fossil fuel industry, with its history of oil spills, pipeline explosions, strip mining, fracking, and cancer alleys, has pretty well wrung out the rest of the country and is now looking for the last big score — fuel export terminals to ship American natural resources to Asia.
It’s time to fight for our homes, again. Please let our representatives know you are against coal, oil, LNG, and methanol export terminals anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Even one opens the floodgate to environmental degradation and a massive draining of American natural resources. Please, no!