Tacoma: Will Puget Sound be better off with methanol plant?

For the public and environmental good, the proposed methanol plant shouldn’t be built on Puget Sound.

China wants to build the world’s largest methanol plant on Puget Sound. China’s water is polluted as is its air - not a model to emulate.

The plant will gulp 10.4 million gallons of clean, fresh water and excrete millions of gallons of waste water daily. What would that waste water contain? Could it be cleaned before it’s dumped into Puget Sound? Why should Tacoma clean up millions of gallons of polluted water for a foreign corporation?

It’s not worth jeopardizing thousands of jobs that locate here for the beauty and clean environment, including recreation, for 160 jobs that would pollute it.

Puget Sound needs restoration and stewardship, not more exploitation. For years governments and agencies have considered Puget Sound as a money-maker through development without considering its health. Will Puget Sound be healthier or sicker with the plant?

It’s time for restoration and appreciation of Puget Sound. Start with planting a forest and restoring a marsh on the 25 acres where the plant is proposed.

This story was originally published February 16, 2016 at 2:47 PM with the headline "Tacoma: Will Puget Sound be better off with methanol plant?."