Fracked Gas & the Pacific Northwest?!! ACTION NEEDED!

GTN Map, 2022.07.29 DO WE WANT MORE FRACKED GAS FROM CANADA TRAVELING THROUGH AGING PIPELINES IN THE NORTHWEST ?

We are writing to urge you to submit comments to the Washington Utility and Transportation Commission (WUTC) in opposition to Cascade Natural Gas’s proposed plans to expand fracked gas in the Northwest, using gas from the GTN XPress pipeline.

Background: Years of community activism and public pressure have changed the landscape for fracked gas in the Northwest. From stopping pipelines, power plants, and refineries, to transitioning buildings away from fracked gas, we are working hard to reduce fracked gas in the Northwest — but the gas industry is pushing a different vision. Fossil fuel pipeline giant TC Energy is proposing to ship a huge quantity of fracked gas into the Northwest via the GTN XPress project, a major proposed gas expansion in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. GTN XPress would push more Canadian fracked gas through an aging pipeline despite objections from Oregon, Washington, and California.

Washington’s lead utility regulators have a key role to play in determining whether Northwest ratepayers foot the bill for this unnecessary and risky pipeline expansion. Cascade Natural Gas is one of the main customers for GTN XPress, and the WUTC is responsible for protecting ratepayers and the public from destructive, unnecessary fracked gas projects.

Please join us by January 20th in urging the WUTC to push back on Cascade Natural Gas and TC Energy’s plans to expand fracked gas in the Northwest by commenting on Cascade’s Integrated Resource Plan. Please Click HERE to Email Your Comments to comments@utc.wa.gov and feel free to cut and paste the sample comments that are included below.

Communities across the Northwest are resisting the gas industry’s expansion plans for good reasons: the risks from GTN XPress extend beyond ratepayers’ wallets. The company that owns the aging GTN pipeline, TC Energy, was responsible for a major pipeline rupture and oil spill from its Keystone oil pipeline in December 2022. The spill may have been exacerbated by TC Energy’s decision to increase the flow of oil in the Keystone pipeline. Now, with Cascade’s help, TC Energy hopes to push more fracked gas through its GTN pipeline in Washington. More flammable, climate-changing fuel in the same old pipeline? It’s a bad plan, and Washington’s lead regulators should hold Cascade accountable.

Please Click HERE to Email Your Comments to comments@utc.wa.gov before January 20th. (And if you are a customer of Cascade Natural Gas, please include that information at the beginning of your comments. You may wish to mention your concern that ratepayers may end up paying for the company’s plans to use fracked gas from the GTN expanded pipeline.)

This is likely the only official avenue we have at this time to stop this project. However, do stay tuned for other actions we may collectively take to pressure other policy makers in the near future.

NOTE — Upcoming webinar to learn more and get further involved in stopping the GTN expanded pipeline: Tuesday, January 17th, at 7:00 p.m. Please register here.

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YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS READINGS:

DO WE NEED “RESILIENCE HUBS”IN OUR AREA?

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/youth-community-center-in-richmond-california-becomes-a-resilience-hub/?gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr405nOALXy4dzSVJeYFHMIemh3gEKaegugHCJNGIotJQloo6-szBEbFhoCav4QAvD_BwE

INFORMATION ON INDUCTION COOKING:

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/can-induction-stoves-convince-home-cooks-to-give-up-gas/?gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr405nOALXy4dzSVJeYFHMIemh3gEKaegugHCJNGIotJQloo6-szBEbFhoCav4QAvD_BwE

GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL!

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/2022-was-one-of-earths-six-warmest-years-on-record/?gclid=CjwKCAiA8OmdBhAgEiwAShr405nOALXy4dzSVJeYFHMIemh3gEKaegugHCJNGIotJQloo6-szBEbFhoCav4QAvD_BwE

Sue Kane – Editor