Tacoma We Need to Monitor Our Air: Many Locations

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 […]

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, […]

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). […]

Tacoma: Methanol Facility: Draft EIS Available Now

Tacoma Methanol Facility Environmental Impact Review Draft is available These “Draft” EIS documents are great reading for Tacoma Community knowledge about the proposed Methane-to-methanol facility under Tacoma review process My advise, please read, and if necessary submit your own comments into this Methanol Facility EIS review process. ////

Focus again: Tacoma PSE Proposed Tideflats LNG Facility

We must remember the LNG projects is still proceeding Let’s remind ourselves that the Tacoma PSE proposed Tideflats (Port of Tacoma) LNG Facility is still proceeding; for example, see: “PSE DEIS Executive Summary.pdf.” online at http://cms.cityoftacoma.org/planning/pse/PSE%20DEIS%20Executive%20Summary.pdf (visited Jan. 26, 2016). “PSE Proposed Tideflats LNG Facility – City of Tacoma.” (n.d.) online at http://www.cityoftacoma.org/cms/One.aspx?pageId=67144. (visited Jan. […]

Let’s review our right to know -v- methanol

Community Right-to-Know sounds logical On the other hand, does anybody really want the community (people, stakeholders) to understand what hazards are potential within their communities? See, Sherman, John, Tacoma People Have Access Rights: Read the Planning Plans: How to Mitigate Community Industrial Accidents, (Jan. 17, 2016) (WordPress pdf file t20160117b) online at https://johnesherman.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/t20160117b.pdf (visited Jan. […]

Tacoma, can we drink the methanol effluent water?

A simple question deserves a simple answer Proposed is a lot of cubic feet per seconds of potable water feeding the methane to methanol conversion process to make the process work. So, what is wrong with the water that is expelled (effluent water) from this conversion process after it does its processing conversion job? Is […]

Natural gas, the burn

We don’t need more natural fuels burned, I think this When I consider new natural gas (methane) processing facilities within my community Tacoma City, Port of Tacoma, I don’t think it’s a great ideal to allow more natural gas processes that can contribute additional chemicals to our current airborne chemicals inventory in Tacoma. I still […]

Useful LNG information

Where are LNG facilities located Where are LNG facilities located? See,North American LNG Import/Export Terminals Existing, (Oct. 20, 2015), available at https://www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/indus-act/lng/lng-existing.pdf Status of LNG facilities everywhere On-Stream under Construction Planned Proposed/under Study, (Global LNG Limited) (Nov. 2015), available at http://www.globallnginfo.com/world%20lng%20plants%20&%20terminals.pdf The LNG planning just missing community people’s notice! Stuff happens. The community is excluded […]