> On Feb 18, 2025, at 11:16 AM, David Walters via groups.io
> <david.walters66=comcast....@groups.io> wrote:
>
> Mark both in your post and the link you provided I don't see anything
> specific they are opposing except the general anti-fossil fuel perspective.
> Can you explain?
Sorry, that posting doesn't meet our informational standards. The link inside
my message,
https://actionnetwork.org/events/support-the-resolution-against-zenith-energy?source=email&;
gives the immediate issues but much more can be said about Zenith and the
Pacific Northwest "Thin Green Line" (not do confused with the many other
"lines" or the green one that involves US military veterans).
https://www.nedc.org/2024/06/nedc-fighting-expansion-of-zenith-energys-dangerous-oil-by-rail-operations/
provides another quick overview of the situation. There is an "energy hub" on
the banks of the Willamette River a few miles upstream from where it flows into
the Columbia River. Portland Oregon is on the Willamette. The particular site
of Zenith's energy hub will liquify in a major earthquake. So there is an
interest in at least moving it somewhere else. Not only is that treated as a
non-starter by our predominantly Democratic Party political leadership, but
Zenith, a Texas company if there ever was one, flaunts city and state codes,
lies about it's operations, generates a lot of public opposition, and sometimes
always manages to be forgiven by elected government leaders and operatives to
get continued approval.
The new, vastly expanded and somewhat experimental, Portland city council has
more representation and two DSA members who are raising this issue and
demanding to see all communications that led to council approvals. There is a
two-fold attack IIUC of revoking Zenith's right to operate in the city and also
of finding out how they managed to operate for so long despite the company's
record.
This is happening within the larger context of a major push to turn the pacific
northwest into a transfer point for Bakken, Oil Sands, western US coal, LNG,
liquid coal, and other fossil fuels to Asia, particularly China. Since 2010,
environmental activists have managed to shut down practically every attempt to
build a fossil-fuel terminal on the Northwest Pacific coast,
https://www.sightline.org/2017/06/20/mapping-the-thin-green-line/
This is a much longer story than I can recite here, but the alliances that
include tribes, environmentalists, farmers, communities along the Columbia, and
others.
Mark
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