All Risk no Reward:
This plant would be expected to produce something on the order of 320 million cubic feet of methanol per day to be exported to China while the US imports around 1.5 billion cubic feet per day. Does this make any sense?
If we were to be using this energy source domestically and the energy was sorely needed then the reward might be worth the environmental risk to build this refinery. But NO, this gas is intended to be shipped to China where it will supposedly be used to make plastic (more of it to pollute the oceans), but more likely to be used as fuel (more of it to pollute the atmosphere).
Why should the city of Kalama, the Lower Columbia Basin, and the region in general incur all of the environmental risk while any benefits are realized by the Republic of China? Proponents cite the creation of jobs, but any new jobs would likely be filled by Chinese Nationals.
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