This Friday, Sightline policy director Eric de Place will join Sierra Club organizer Victoria Leistman to discuss Kinder Morgan’s pipeline projects, how the community is fighting back against them, and how you can get involved. Kinder Morgan, the Texas-based energy giant behind the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in Canada, is now eyeing expansion opportunities in Whatcom … Read more
Kinder Morgan, the corporation behind the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in Canada, is now eyeing expansion opportunities in Whatcom and Skagit counties in Washington State. Its oil transport ambitions could increase oil tanker traffic in the region by 700% and directly threaten the Salish Sea and Puget Sound. And its track record of law-breaking, pollution, and cover-ups have communities across … Read more
Kinder Morgan, the corporation behind the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in Canada, is now eyeing expansion opportunities in Whatcom and Skagit counties in Washington State. Its oil transport ambitions directly threaten the Salish Sea and Puget Sound, and its track record of law-breaking, pollution, and cover-ups have communities across Cascadia on alert. Next week, Sightline policy director Eric … Read more
After a string of successes defending the Northwest from ill-conceived dirty energy projects, the thin green line—the Northwest’s opposition movement to coal, oil, and gas exports—is starting to play offense. Local governments around the region are already updating land use laws to protect their communities from the depredations of fossil fuel infrastructure schemes. Now, a … Read more
Join Sightline policy director Eric de Place tomorrow in Seattle for a forum on how to build power and resistance to the dirty energy industry in the age of Trump. Eric will explain why the Pacific Northwest has an important role to place in opposing dirty energy projects. It’s the story of the Thin Green Line: … Read more
Low-income families typically cause far less greenhouse gas pollution than their better-off peers; yet because they make less money, they spend a larger share of their income on carbon-based fuels. They’ve done the least to cause climate change, but they’re the most vulnerable to its impacts. They’re also most vulnerable to the single best policy … Read more
Note from Alan: As I explained previously, Washington’s Initiative 732 has divided climate hawks so deeply that even writing about it is a task we undertake with trepidation. (To get a sense of the landscape, please read the introduction to the first article in this series.) Organizations and individuals we respect and have collaborated with … Read more
UPDATE, AUG 4: We added the first graph, below, to illustrate our analysis. UPDATE, AUG 3: Friends have suggested that basing some of our analysis on the sum of state tax revenue unfairly biases it in favor of I-732, something we certainly didn’t intend. Our estimated $78 million average annual shortfall is just 0.37 percent … Read more
UPDATE Oct 7: We previously said that I-732 could result in a windfall of up to $200 million to Boeing. However, Boeing’s newly-released tax data suggest that it only pays $19 million to $60 million per year in state business taxes, and therefore would benefit from I-732 in the range of tens of millions per … Read more
Climate hawks and social justice champions are joining forces to bring about a more prosperous and just future in Oregon. One way they could accomplish their goals is by making polluters pay for their pollution and investing the resulting revenue in creating more power, more economic opportunities, safer transportation options, and better health for historically … Read more
