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New Natural Gas Power Plants!

Portland General Electric is proposing to build two new huge natural gas power plants at the Carty Generating Station to power the City of Portland!

We want the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to reject PGE’s proposal for more fossil fuel power and instead call on them to build more renewable energy like wind and solar!

Comments to the PUC are due May 12th, click here to submit!

Talking Points
- Carty gas-fired power plants would lock Oregon into decades of climate disruption at a time when solar and wind power are viable options and more affordable than ever.
- Future gas prices are highly unpredictable; wind and solar power eliminate the expense of fuel entirely. Building more gas-fired power plants is a risky proposition for PGE’s customers and shareholders.
- PGE has proposed a 20-year plan favoring gas-fired power plants, rejecting plans which rely almost exclusively on renewables like wind and solar even though independent analysis shows that investing in wind and solar is better for customers and better for workers.
- Portland has recently banned new fossil fuel infrastructure; building new infrastructure to power Oregon’s largest city doesn’t make sense.
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- If PGE’s proposed gas plants are built, the Carty generating station would be largest GHG emitter in Oregon after Boardman closes.
- Carty 2 & 3 would release about 2 million tons of CO2 annually - up to 7 million tons when upstream methane leakage is factored in.
- Overall, the Carty facility would consume 230 million cubic feet of natural gas - about ⅓ of Oregon’s daily gas consumption.
- We’ve nearly used up the global carbon budget. We can’t afford decades more of fossil fuels greenhouse gas pollution.
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I strongly urge you to deny PGE’s proposed energy plan because it favors building unnecessary gas-fired power plants, and fails to adequately evaluate renewable energy resources to replace the retiring Boardman coal plant. Building new gas-fired power plants would lock Oregon into decades of climate-disrupting fossil fuel energy and unpredictable gas prices - at a time when clean energy sources like wind and solar are more affordable than ever. This is a bad deal for PGE customers and a step backward for Oregon. Portland has just moved to stabilize the climate by banning new fossil fuel infrastructure, but PGE’s plan moves us farther away from meeting Oregon’s climate goals. Building new methane-burning power plants now simply doesn’t make sense - for PGE or the planet.
Please direct PGE to revise its plan by investing in clean energy sources like wind and solar instead of rushing ahead to commit Oregon to risky gas-fired power plants.

Sincerely,
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STOP the Carty Gas Plants!

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Oregonians tell PGE to abandon the expansion of the Carty Generating Plant

July 7, 2017/in Fossil Fuel Resistence /by Guest Author

We can no longer deny climate change. We know that there are solutions to our fossil fuel dependency. These changes will mean transforming our energy system. – Liz Trojan

This past December, PGE filed for an amended site certificate that would permit them to build two new natural gas power plants at the Carty Generating Plant in Boardman, OR. The Energy Facility Siting Commission (EFSC) has to grant the site certificate in order for PGE to begin construction.

We asked the community to tell PGE how they felt about the request and how expanding the capacity of the plant to use dirty fossil fuels would affect them. The response we got was overwhelming.

Over 300 concerned community members told 350PDX how they felt. Their appeals to PGE were personal, well-informed, and got straight to the point – Oregonians value the PNW’s natural environment and they want to protect it.

Confronting the Whiteness of Environmentalism

June 29, 2017/in just Transition /by Rachel Levelle

People’s Climate March 2017

Climate justice means hard work.

It’s tempting to assign labels or catchphrases to movements. The concept of climate justice or environmental justice has gained massive traction in organizing groups, but as easy as it is to put “climate justice” on a banner, it’s even easier to lose sight of what it really means.

350PDX at Sunday Parkways in May

June 26, 2017/in News /by maya

Two 350PDX volunteers sharing information at a Sunday Parkways event in May 2017.

A small handful of volunteers brought 350PDX to the Sunday Parkways events in May. Thanks to everyone who helped!

At one of the Parkways events, we collected 142 comments of people asking the Public Utility Commission to make sure PGE doesn’t build new gas electricity generation plants (adding to the 10,000 comments people have already submitted!) Lots of kids were wearing 350PDX pins, drawing adults to come find out what that number meant!

Thanks to Pat for coordination, Rand for early AM set-up, Rand, David, Lori and Jane for excellent comment gathering, Bonnie, Gregory, and Donna for beautiful banners and flags, and other friends and family who stopped by for support!

— Melanie, Fossil Fuel Resistance Team & Maya, Community Organizer

Oregon’s First Cooperative Solar Project Completed

June 19, 2017/in Announcements, Divestment /by sandy

View of solar at Mazama Mountaineering Center

The Divestment/Reinvestment Team has an announcement about one of the Reinvestment options they’ve found: A community-owned solar installation!

The Oregon Clean Power Cooperative, together with the Mazamas and local solar installer Elemental Energy, will celebrate the completion of the Co-op’s first solar project on July 11 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Mazama Mountaineering Center (MMC), 527 SE 43rd Avenue, Portland. Solar panels installed by Elemental Energy now cover three sides of the roof of the MMC and are expected to produce half of its electrical needs.