Across this nation, a battle wages between corporations seeking short-term profits at the expense of the environment, and ordinary citizens who fight to protect water and world. A battle between those who perpetuate dependence on fossil fuels for energy and production, and those who call for a better way through sustainable, renewable energy and production resources.
Locally, this battle takes many fronts, all tied to the Columbia River: the Tesoro-Savage oil terminal in Vancouver, Northwest Innovation Works’ methanol refinery in Kalama, the Nestl? water bottling plant in Goldendale, and the Millennium coal terminal in Longview.
Say “no” to the Tesoro-Savage terminal that will endanger our communities with increased oil by rail, and crowd our river with more oil freighters. Say “no” to the methanol refinery because it will send methanol to China to make plastics, leaving the pollution to poison Southwest Washington. Say “no” to the Nestl? water bottling plant that will sell Columbia watershed water in plastic bottles to people whose water was poisoned by industry. Say “no” to the coal terminal in Longview because coal is obsolete as a fuel and we must invest in infrastructure that will last for the next 100 years.
