NWIW claims that the operation of this refinery would mitigate climate chhange due to a net decrease in green house gas emissions. I suggest that this claim is pure "poppycock". Even if this gas were to be used "planned" (allegedly to make plastics thus locking up some carbon), how is it possible that fracturing the earth (e.g. fracking) to extract methane gas, piping it across the continent through a vast gas pipeline network, processing it in the Kalama Methanol Refinery and then shipping across the Pacific is cleaner than simply leaving it in the ground to begin with?
NWIW will claim that any emissions will be offset by the reduced reliance on coal fired plants in China, but what guarantees are there that that will happen? What reason do we have to trust them?
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