City of Tacoma General Government will soon be required to provide more services—Police, Fire, Medical response, building inspection, fire inspection, complaint responses—to more new people living within the Proctor District; however, Taxes are deferred for these immediate and ongoing expenses; therefore, this is not fair to surrounding residential property owners that are not offered any […]
Let’s not forget Flint MI and what the US EPA let happen to the citizens without presenting public warning or hazards disclosure. See generally, Five takeaways from congressional hearing on Flint See, Flint, Michigan Water Contamination The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee held its second hearing on the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan […]
State Environmental Policy Act (“SEPA”) Helps How? I have always had questions about how a SEPA can protect the environment by its results when the detailed scientific studies, data, and articles are not published first before public input permitted by the SEPA process. Others have questioned the SEPA process also; for example: Where “[P]rocess does […]
To: Tacoma.methanol.sepa@cityoftacoma.org Tuesday, March 1, 2016 EIS Scoping Comments: Tacoma Manufacturing and Marine Export Facility (TMMEF): “Proposed Methanol Plant”: SEPA Lead Agency: City of Tacoma (File No. SEPA2015-40000260025). My comment applies to potential environment impact upon Tacoma and surrounding communities: Hydrogen Sulfide and Our Community Air Since we don’t know the sources from which feed […]
Why is the TPP not good for Tacoma people We, I have, known for a long time the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) has been secret for what ending benefit to whom? Therefore, just maybe we can understand a little who is doing what to just who that benefits our Tacoma Community? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is […]
Hazardous Process: Methanol: Requires Quality Process in Tacoma What is ISO 9000 Quality? Quality and hazards containment is a requirement to keep our Tacoma Community and people safe as possible from potential hazards; it follows international standards apply here at home to: Natural gas (methane gas); LNG Facility; and Methanol Facility. Quality process for plant […]
Tacoma and other communities have LNG as a common concern Our Tacoma LNG facility already has received Tacoma SEPA FEIS status and do we even understand what the means to Tacoma environmental health? And how do we know? Stop Cove Point: Another Community: No Fracked Gas Exports Just a interesting article: Chesapeake Climate Action Network, […]
Who says, the Community counts? Community listens The Tacoma three proposed industries: Natural gas distribution pipe system; LNG Facility; and Methanol Facility. Community speaks Tacoma and surrounding Communities speak for- and against-arguments that relate to Tacoma proposed natural gas industries to be operated within Port of Tacoma Washington. Who listens to Community speak? The issue, […]
The methanol facility use Specifically, presented, “7.1 Water Supply The methanol plant will require significant quantities of water to function. Estimated usage amounts identify the facility as requiring about 10.4 million gallons of water per day (enough to supply 26,000 homes, assuming average use of 400 gallons per day). . . .” See, Methanol EIS […]
It follows, there exist many tax exemption for many reasons that apply to Federal Government, State Government, County Government, City Government, and Public Corporations; all tax exempt because public good gifted back to the people that pay taxes within the State of Washington. See, Tax Exemptions 2000, Public Property, http://dor.wa.gov/Docs/Reports/2000/Tax_Exemptions_2000/proppubl.htm?noframes (last visited Feb 10, 2016). […]
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