Northwest Innovation Works is pretty good at green-washing in order to help the Chinese build the world’s largest methanol plant in Kalama.
This project is not clean. It’s dirty, from its start in the fracking fields, leaking methane the length of the pipeline. This gas is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. The project would emit more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Some of the toxins emitted in the wastewater are nickel, copper and zinc oxide. The air would be polluted with, among other poisons, fine particulate matter which would exacerbate and increase rates of asthma, chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
With Cowlitz County’s high rates of unemployment and poverty, Kalama may be seen as an easy target — ripe to become another sacrifice zone.
