Can you call your senator within these next few hours before the vote?

Call your senator at 888-997-5380. When you’re connected, here’s what to say:

“I’m urging my senator to vote NO on any amendment that would advance Manchin’s dirty permitting deal. I’m deeply concerned about any legislation that would fast-track fossil fuel projects and undermine our ability to give input on new energy projects.”

Send a Comment to FERC to Stop the GTN XPress Fracked Gas Expansion Project

For years, we’ve been successfully standing up to fossil fuel corporations. Now, TC Energy (the company behind Keystone XL) is trying to quietly expand the GTN pipeline with an additional 150 million cubic feet of gas per day while also adding a new gas compressor station in Morrow County, OR. This proposed expansion project is called GTN Xpress. TC Energy is proposing this as an expansion because they know our movement is too powerful to propose a brand new pipeline — but the impact is just as dangerous to our climate and our communities. 

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is making a decision on this project on February 16 – so we need to get as many comments in as we can before then. Please refer to our partners at Rogue Climate for information on how to send in a comment to FERC. It takes another couple minutes because you’ll have to create an account, but it’s a really meaningful and important action to take. Please send in a comment to FERC as soon as possible, and once you do, then send a message to our Oregon US Senators — they should be publicly opposing this project. 

Send in a Comment to ODOT to Demand an EIS for the Proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion

Our friends at No More Freeways need our help to submit as many comments as possible to the Oregon Department of Transportation to challenge the agency’s proposed $1.45 billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion, and demand a thorough Environmental Impact Statement on the project. ODOT still has done absolutely nothing to address concerns about the dangerous impacts of the additional lanes of freeway and the congestion it will bring to our streets, the air pollution it will bring to our lungs, and the carbon emissions that it will add to our alarmingly warming planet.

Please submit your own comment here by January 3, 2023. You can write whatever you’d like, but we’d encourage you to speak from the heart and write about your own personal reasons why you oppose this project, be it related to air pollution, induced demand, climate change, or general skepticism of ODOT. Click here to see the talking points from No More Freeways to include in your comments, as well as submit your comment directly to ODOT. 

Sign the Petition & Write to Congress: Restore Federal Recognition for the Chinook Indian Nation

In 2001, the Chinook Nation obtained federal recognition from the U.S. government. However, celebration turned into heartbreak when the U.S. government rescinded this recognition eighteen months later. The Chinook Indian Nation was essentially declared nonexistent in the eyes of the government. The nation has been unable to access programs and resources to which federally recognized tribes are entitled. Over the last 20 years, the lack of federal recognition has cost $200 million dollars, opportunities for youth, and countless lives.

Congress has both the power and authority to recognize tribes. We are calling on our elected officials to do what’s right and end this humanitarian crisis: Stop the genocide and federally recognize the Chinook Indian Nation.

TOMORROW: A Night of Caroling with Fellow Portland Climate Activists!

Thurs, Dec 15, 5:30-7pm — meet on the corner of N Highland & N Concord Ave

Join us and our friends at Breach Collective and Portland Youth Climate Strike for a night of caroling to festively spread awareness about the dangers of Zenith Energy’s oil-by-rail operations! Make sure you bring: warm clothes (ideally festive!), bells or other instruments if you have them, friends and family, and holiday cheer. This is gonna be a fun time!

People’s Public Hearing on the Proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion

Tues, Jan 3, 6pm — Harriet Tubman Middle School (2231 N Flint Ave, Portland) — learn more here

No More Freeways asked ODOT to hold an in-person public comment event for the poposed Rose Quarter Freeway, and they refused. So they’re holding their own. Save the date for a People’s Public Hearing at Harriet Tubman Middle School on January 3rd, 2023.

ODOT’s proposed $1.45 billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion would lock us into more fossil fuel infrastructure and expose the Harriet Tubman Middle School to dangerous levels of pollution. We need a full Enviornmental Impact Statement (EIS) that studies alternatives to freeway expansion. You can also submit a public comment demanding ODOT conducts a full EIS on the project.

Join us for Rumble on the River #4: A Community Forum on Zenith Energy and the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub

Tues, Jan 17, 6pm — Havurah Shalom (825 NW 18th Ave) — Stay tuned for more info.

This is the fourth in a series of free community forums to educate and activate around the threats to public health, safety and our environment stemming from the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub and Zenith Energy’s oil-by-rail operations. Each forum has a new line-up of speakers! Panelists at this forum include Bob Sallinger (Outgoing Conservation Director for Portland Audubon), Melanie Plaut (Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility member), Jay Wilson (Past Chair, Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission), and more. Doors and info tables at 6pm, panel at 6:30pm. Stay tuned for more info.

Missed the last Rumble? Check out a recording of it here, and a big thank you to Creative Team volunteer Mara for filming!