Company drops plan for $2.3B methanol plant in Washington

FILE - In this 2017 file photo, Mark Keely, of Kalama, Wash., stands with other protesters outside the Washington Department of Ecology's Vancouver field office in 2017. A company backed by the Chinese government on Friday, June 11, 2021, ended its seven-year effort to build one of the world's largest methanol plants along the Columbia River in southwestern Washington, following a series of regulatory setbacks and a long debate over its environmental footprint.

Economic development officials in southwest Washington blasted the state for dooming the project, saying that the company's methods of making methanol from natural gas would have been cleaner than making it from coal, as is done elsewhere. That would have benefitted the environment while creating 1,400 construction jobs and 200 family-wage permanent positions, they argued.

Environmental groups, including Columbia Riverkeeper and the Washington Environmental Council, as well as tribal activists, vehemently opposed it. They celebrated the lease termination as the latest in a string of victories that helped block more than a dozen fossil-fuel developments in the Pacific Northwest, including fracked gas pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals, coal export terminals, and oil-by-rail developments.

Northwest Innovation Works suffered another setback that year when the state Department of Ecology demanded further environmental review, saying that five years in, its backers had failed to provide enough information about its greenhouse gas emissions and how they would be offset.

Oh so it will be ~50,000 years instead of ~80-100,000 years before it breaks up/melts. 😂

Trump was just barking loud with no bite while Biden is biting more with little talk. China and Russia now r confused because they don't know what's coming for them unlike Trump time where they used to know everything that was coming

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