Thank you, Safe Shippers! Your letters and support have done it again — the Salish Sea and our orcas received some more good news! 

The proposed Kalama refinery on the Columbia River — what would be the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery — suffered another setback this week. After putting the project on hold last month, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has now determined that an additional environmental review of the project is required, citing incomplete information on the projects’s greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of those emissions. 

Ecology will conduct a second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). Once the draft is completed (about a year from now), the public will have an opportunity to comment. We are getting good at this!

In the meantime, let’s keep practicing our Safe Shippers and Orca Protectors voices. Please call or write the Department of Ecology Director, Maia Bellon.