On Jan. 29, Gov. Jay Inslee rejected the proposed oil train terminal in Vancouver.
I want to thank the governor for his decision. He said “no” to an additional 50 million tons of CO2 that would have been added to our atmosphere. He said “no” to the additional toxic and hazardous chemicals that would have further polluted our air.
Inslee said “no” — the people of Vancouver, and especially neighborhoods such as Fruit Valley, do not deserve to be sacrificed to higher rates of asthma, cancer, stroke and heart disease.
He said “no” to a powerful industry with a terrible safety record and disregard for the human cost of doing “business as usual” — a business that is stuck in the last century.
I thank Inslee for listening to the people who submitted more than 1.3 million comments against this project. I was proud to be chosen to deliver the 311,125 comments that came from Vancouver alone.
I am saying thank you to our governor for saying “no” to this project that was wrong for Vancouver, wrong for the state of Washington, and wrong for the planet.
