No LNG Activists Birddog Governor Kate Brown at Democratic Party Holiday Event
On Saturday night November 21st about 40 protestors from the No LNG movement spent a cold evening outside greeting arriving Multnomah County Democrats at their Holiday party held at the IBEW local 48 offices in Portland, Oregon. Along with the Holiday cheer, arriving guests were greeted with chants of “We Don’t Want No LNG, We Just Want Clean Energy!” along with some solidarity singing. Though the No LNG protestors were not allowed on the IBEW property their presence elicited many “we’re with you” honks from passing cars along with a few Democratic Party delegates stopping to express their support for the No LNG movement.
Inside the IBEW hall, some No LNG protestors paid the $35 ticket price and attended in order to question Governor Brown about the LNG proposals at Jordan Cove (Coos Bay) and Warrenton, Or. but the event was tightly scripted and there were no Q and A’s. Activist Kelly Hanley attended inside and handed out No LNG information flyers to all attendees who were almost uniformly very receptive to the messages detailing the crushing environmental devastation these LNG proposals would wrought on Oregon’s salmon streams, forests and water. So called “natural gas” has methane gas as its chief component, and is not a bridge to a sustainable future but rather a gangplank to climate chaos. Methane is an 8600% more heat trapping greenhouse gas than CO2. Methane gas and CO2 escape/leak from the entire LNG production process—- from extraction fracking though transport through liquification through shipping and finally through burning.
So natural gas turns out to be even worse than coal when it comes to climate change. Adding additional investment to LNG means not only disastrous environmental degradations but also less investment in sustainable energy. It’s a zero sum game
and represents an ongoing competition with sustainable infrastructure for the foreseeable future.”
