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Northwest communities seek to build a ‘green wall of resistance’ against fossil fuels
Using a new legal strategy, Pacific Northwest towns are fighting back against fossil fuels -- and winning.

https://thinkprogress.org/northwest-communities-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-bans-0a4a9b1dbf85/

“The goal is the same, which is the move away from the kind of fossil fuel export fights that have been the norm in the Pacific Northwest for the last five or six years, where we are in response mode,” Alex Ramel, extreme oil field director at Stand International, said of the similarities between Whatcom and Portland’s efforts to ban fossil fuel infrastructure. “That basic strategy is the same, and I hope to see it continued up and down the coast.”

In Tacoma, Washington, organizers are also looking to amend local land use laws to make it more difficult for the port to become a target for fossil fuel projects. Like in Portland, the idea was first sparked by a proposed methanol refinery, which would have used shipped the fossil fuel to China for use in the manufacturing of plastics. Eventually, in response to local opposition, the financial backers pulled out of the project, but organizers knew similar proposals were sure to follow; according to the Sightline Institute’s June 2017 report, “Northwest Targets,” Tacoma is the second-most at-risk place in the Pacific Northwest when it comes to potential major fossil fuel infrastructure proposals.