My fellow Protectors,
We need your help in Tacoma this October. Soon, the City Council will be renewing the Interim Regulations for the Tideflats — an area that was once a thriving estuary, and is located within the boundaries of the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854.
This area is occupied by numerous polluting industries and fossil fuel operations, including U.S. Oil, WestRock, and the proposed Puget Sound Energy LNG refinery. Under the Interim Regulations, these existing businesses can file for unlimited expansions — several already have — at a time when other jurisdictions are taking the climate crisis seriously and enacting moratoriums.
These Interim Regulations are in place while a permanent Subarea Plan is created over the next 3-10 years. The decision to allow industries to invest in expansions will have impacts for decades, and will thus thwart the intended ability of the Subarea Plan Stakeholder Advisory Group, which includes several city governments and the sovereign Puyallup Tribe of Indians, to make these important land-use decisions.
We need YOU because the Mayor and City Council in Tacoma aren’t listening to local community outcry, and we must show them that we, along with the Salish Sea, are watching them and holding them accountable. These same elected officials made promises to youth in Tacoma at last Friday’s climate strike, but their recent decisions regarding Interim Regulations are in stark opposition to their promises. We must also remember that this project isn’t just threatening our relatives in Tacoma; what happens to the air in Tacoma happens to the air in Seattle. What happens to the water in Tacoma happens to all of the Salish Sea. Each continued expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure is a nail in the coffin of our children’s future.
Please come to Tacoma on Tuesday, Oct. 1, for public comment starting at 5 p.m. in the council chambers at 747 Market Street!
Please share the facebook event, or forward this email to friends, family, and co-workers.
If you can’t make it, call 253-594-7848 and leave a message for Mayor Woodards or any of the City Councilmembers, or email them — they all need to hear from us!
The City Council building is close to transit routes, or you can use this carpool link to find or offer a ride.
Hope to see you there!
In solidarity,
Stacy Oaks
350 Seattle
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