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Category: Oil News

Tell City of Tacoma: SeaPort Sound DEIS Inadequate

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SeaPort Sound Terminal, a bulk oil and fuel terminal on the Tacoma Tideflats, originally filed for a permit in 2020 to expand their tank storage capacity by 11%. While the city initially indicated that SeaPort Sound would not be required to do an environmental impact statement (EIS) for their project, the community (including many people of faith) spoke up and asked them to study the impacts of the proposal. Photo Credit: Manda Hansen, Unsplash.

Tacoma City Council Passes Non-Interim Land Use Regulations

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After four years of renewing temporary protections every six months, in November the Tacoma City Council passed long-term Non-Interim Regulations that ensure that no new fossil fuel facilities can be built on the Tideflats. Though not as strong as we wanted, it is a win that existing fossil fuel infrastructure cannot expand unless it’s part of a “Cleaner Fuels” blend, and even then expansion is limited. We look forward to continuing to engage on this issue in new ways through the Tacoma Tideflats Subarea Plan. Many thanks to the faith community and activists in Tacoma for advocating for strong protections for multiple years.

Goings-On at Earth Ministry Fall 2019

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Earth Ministry Events & Presentations Earth Ministry’s recent congregational outreach included presentations at or events with First Presbyterian in Port Townsend; St. Augustine’s in-the-Woods Episcopal on Whidbey Island; First Lutheran in Richmond Beach; Bothell United Methodist Church; St. James Cathedral,…

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Earth Ministry/WAIPL works within the unceded territories of Northwest Native nations. Our office is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present. Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous histories as well as to honor tribes and the land itself.