First Responders: Workplace Air Safety or Long Term Exposure

To: Tacoma.methanol.sepa@cityoftacoma.org Wednesday, March 2, 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 City, State, and Federal Employee (people) located or assigned duty at close proximity to Tacoma Port LNG, Methanol, or natural gas (methane) piping […]

Tacoma Hazards: Required ISO Quality Standards

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 […]

Cove Point: LNG: Just Information

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, […]

Public Interest: What is the Public Interest?

Natural gas facilities and public apprehension I see a number of the U.S. natural gas related projects progressing—presented, community involvement, permitting, engineering, construction, and process operation—but, as for public input, I fail to see or recognize where public input is considered—enabling or stopping these projects. It’s a no-win game for public comments Since, it is […]

Tacoma Water: Methanol: Consumption

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 […]

Tacoma: Port: Tax: Community Weight

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). […]

Just some relational thoughts about natural gas

Just playing-around with Venn Diagrams. However what’s missing is Natural gas (methane gas) process burning flares for both Methanol and LNG facility; Things that fly in the sky (birds) near a natural gas (methanol gas) burning flare(s); Truck and road traffic impact; People that are close by to the facilities. However, it’s the relational thought […]

Tacoma: LNG: Methanol: Sour-Gas Supply

To: mailto: Tacoma.methanol.sepa@cityoftacoma.org Sunday, February 7, 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 SEPA and this Environmental impact statement (“EIS”) related to the natural gas supply feeding the Methanol Facility. Given, we are able to […]