Yesterday, Seattle-based organizations 350 Seattle and Mazaska Talks took the demand to defund Line 3 directly to bank branches in downtown Seattle.
Between 2018 and 2016, overall emissions rose by around 1.1%. Climate pollution emitted by Seattle’s buildings rose by a whopping 8.3%.
On Thursday, Puyallup Water Warriors, Protectors of the Salish Sea, and over forty kayaktivists held a twilight prayer vigil on South Lake Union, urging Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) CEO Mary Kipp to halt the rush to operationalize the controversial Tacoma LNG facility.
This is what it looks like when another one starts biting the dust! Thanks to overwhelming public outcry (including a great eight days in December), the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has sent PSE back to the drawing board, with a need for a greenhouse gas Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). Their hubris intact, they continue to build (despite lacking key permits)….but make no mistake, the tide has turned.
Activists locked themselves to a crane for nine hours at the site of the proposed Puget Sound Energy (PSE) liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) facility at the Port of Tacoma yesterday—halting construction of an 8 million gallon storage tank all day.
This afternoon, people up and down Western Washington gathered outside 13 different PSE offices to demand that the company stop pushing fracked gas, abandon its Tacoma LNG plans, shut down the dirty Colstrip coal power plant in Montana (the dirtiest in the US), and move immediately to 100% renewable energy.
We will be targeting JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest funders of tar sands development–in order to demand that the bank not fund Keystone XL, or any other new tar sands infrastructure.
On Friday, for second time in less than 3 months, a Skagit County jury refused to convict climate activists of a crime that they openly admitted to. The six defendants had blockaded the train tracks into the Anacortes refineries for 36 hours as part of the global Break Free from Fossil Fuels mobilization in May 2016; they were charged with criminal trespass in the second degree.
This afternoon, after dozens of Seattle residents gave passionate testimony in favor of a resolution introduced by Council Member Kshama Sawant, the City Council voted unanimously to seek out financial institutions that do not provide TransCanada or the Keystone XL pipeline with project-level loans.
We had a beautiful victory today. With a unanimous vote, the City of Seattle ended its business with Wells Fargo because of its funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline…so Wells Fargo has taken a $3 billion hit because of your work, your activism. Thank you.
