Please join Columbia Riverkeeper, Willapa Hills Audubon Society, and the Rosemere Neighborhood Association to:
Say no to more water and air pollution and increased global warming!
The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council is holding a public hearing:
September 20, 2007, 6:30 P.M.
Kalama Community Building, 126 North Second Street, Kalama, Washington
Please attend. The Council will take comments on Energy Northwest’s greenhouse gas “sequestration plan” for the proposed Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Kalama, which would be a major new industrial polluter on the Columbia River. The “sequestration plan” fails to comply with Washington’s new Climate Change bill (SB 6001), which bans heavily polluting energy facilities unless the facility produces a plan that proves it can sequester greenhouse gas by pumping it into the bedrock within 5 years.
Energy Northwest’s “sequestration plan” admits that it cannot sequester greenhouse gases in 5 years, but asks for approval to build anyways. Their plan has drawn scorn from the Attorney General’s office, which stated the plan is “deficient” and “vague.” The Department of Ecology requested “that the Council reject Energy Northwest’s application.” Yet, surprisingly, the Council is moving forward toward approving the plan.
Demand that the Council reject the deficient and vague sequestration plan. Tell them you do not want a massive new polluter on the Columbia River.
To view the “sequestration plan,” see http://www.efsec.wa.gov/pmec.shtml
