Learn what living in the shadow of methanol production would mean to you
The Tatoosh Group of the state Sierra Club chapter and the University of Puget Sound Policy Institute have scheduled a presentation for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, on the Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Methanol Plants. Wilma Subra, a scientist and activist from Louisiana, will share her expertise on methanol processing. The presentation will be in the UPS Kilworth Memorial Chapel, 1500 N. 18th St., Tacoma.
NWIW, a Chinese-backed company, proposes to build a huge natural gas to methanol plant on the Tacoma tideflats. With the increasing demand for energy in Asia and the cheap gas extracted by fracking in Alberta and North Dakota, energy companies are looking for ways to get their fossil fuels to Asian markets from West Coast ports. We all need to be better informed.
Mrs. Subra holds degrees in microbiology/chemistry from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She received the MacArthur Fellowship Genius Award from the MacArthur Foundation for helping ordinary citizens understand, cope with and combat environmental issues in their communities. She also has completed a seven-year term as Vice-Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, a five-year term on the National Advisory Committee of the U. S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and a six- year term on the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), where she served as a member of the Cumulative Risk and Impacts Working Group of the NEJAC Council and chaired the NEJAC Gulf Coast Hurricanes Work Group.