Hands Across the Columbia

Video of a Rally on the steps of the State Capitol in Olympia Washington, urging Governor Chris Gregoire to mount a legal challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) approval of the Bradwood Liquefied Natural Gas terminal.

The Rally was moderated by Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper, who introduced a wide variety of speakers.

Speakers included, from Washington State government, Rep. Dean Takko from Southern Oregon and Jay Manning, Director of Washington Department of Ecology.

From Washington State citizen organizations concerned about the detrimental effects of the proposal were Ruby Wolf of the Cascade chapter of the Sierra Club, George Exum of Wahkiakum Friends of the Columbia River, Gerald Pollet, Seattle City Light Study Group and Gail, a forest land owner.

Also speaking were Monica of Rising Tide North America and Olivia Schmidt from the Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition.

These proposed terminals would effect Oregon and Washington lands, populations and businesses, and an organized resistance of citizens in Oregon has slowly persuaded Governor Kulongoski to take a harder look at the serious consequences of these facilities to Oregonians.

Now the same pressure is being exerted on Governor Gregoire to exercise her power and retain the authority of the state of Washington in the process, a process which has, up to this point, been merely rubber stamping the wishes of industry.

Gerald Pollet: "Twenty two years ago, thousands of citizens from Portland, Oregon, Washington, linked hands on the Interstate Five bridge in Hands Across the Columbia River to say no to Hanford being the first national high level nuclear waste dump. Today, we're linking hands. We want Hands Across the Columbia River, not pipe lines across the Columbia River." Included in this brief report is a 22 minute audio file of speakers at the event. Each spoke briefly and passionately concerning the effects of these facilities and the need for the citizens of both Oregon and Washington to say No to LNG!

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[mrjustin5]

Like Washington needs another nightmare ecology problem.

With the Hanford Nuclear Site - the MOST RADIOACTIVE AND CONTAMINATED NUCLEAR SITE EVER. We dont need LNG.

[musiccmt1]

So don't use natural gas? Stop the demand.