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For years, communities in the Northwest have been standing up to fossil fuel corporations. Now, TC Energy (the company behind Keystone XL) is trying to quietly expand the Gas Transmission Northwest (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. The GTN Pipeline is a 60 year old pipeline that snakes through Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Communities have been tirelessly fighting to stop GTN XPress in its tracks--before federal regulators make a decision as soon as May.
Washington Governor Inslee, and Oregon Senators’ Wyden and Merkley have already joined the growing list of public opposition to GTN XPress. It's time for Oregon Governor Kotek to stand up against this project.
Expanding the volume of methane gas through the aging GTN Pipeline would create 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year–the equivalent amount of pollution to adding 754,000 passenger vehicles on the road each year until 2052. Instead of investing in dirty fossil fuels, our communities need investment in a just transition to clean energy and energy efficiency.
This expansion proposal is a significant threat to our climate and the public health and safety of our communities, and also would be a significant setback to Oregon’s climate goals. Methane gas pipelines leak throughout the production, transport, and consumer process, causing health risks–including respiratory disease and asthma– for everyone who lives near the pipeline.
This project would be a step backwards on Washington and Oregon’s commitments to decrease emissions by 95% and 80% by 2050. Communities fought hard to secure those commitments, and GTN XPress would make these climate targets even harder to reach by signficantly increasing emissions.
You can learn more about GTN XPress and the growing coalition to fight this pipeline expansion at these links: People's Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, Sightline Article, KBOO Radio.
For years, communities in the Northwest have been standing up to fossil fuel corporations. Now, TC Energy (the company behind Keystone XL) is trying to quietly expand the Gas Transmission Northwest (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. The GTN Pipeline is a 60 year old pipeline that snakes through Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Communities have been tirelessly fighting to stop GTN XPress in its tracks--before federal regulators make a decision as soon as May.
Washington Governor Inslee, and Oregon Senators’ Wyden and Merkley have already joined the growing list of public opposition to GTN XPress. It's time for Oregon Governor Kotek to stand up against this project.
Expanding the volume of methane gas through the aging GTN Pipeline would create 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year–the equivalent amount of pollution to adding 754,000 passenger vehicles on the road each year until 2052. Instead of investing in dirty fossil fuels, our communities need investment in a just transition to clean energy and energy efficiency.
This expansion proposal is a significant threat to our climate and the public health and safety of our communities, and also would be a significant setback to Oregon’s climate goals. Methane gas pipelines leak throughout the production, transport, and consumer process, causing health risks–including respiratory disease and asthma– for everyone who lives near the pipeline.
This project would be a step backwards on Washington and Oregon’s commitments to decrease emissions by 95% and 80% by 2050. Communities fought hard to secure those commitments, and GTN XPress would make these climate targets even harder to reach by signficantly increasing emissions.
You can learn more about GTN XPress and the growing coalition to fight this pipeline expansion at these links: People's Hearing to Stop GTN Xpress, Sightline Article, KBOO Radio.
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