This program originally aired on January 15, 2018.
Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG development on the West Coast. And now he is opening up the coastal waters of Oregon, Washington and California to oil drilling. In doing so he is trying to cross a thin green line of resistance that obviously he knows or cares little about.
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk again with Dan Serres, Columbia Riverkeeper's Conservation Director, about how the Thin Green Line is holding firm against all the onslaughts of fossil fuel development being thrown at us. We'll look at the victories and coming challenges facing us this year.
Dan Serres started with Columbia Riverkeeper in 2005, as the lead organizer in their successful campaign to protect the Columbia River Estuary, forests, and farmland from the Bradwood Landing and Oregon LNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) proposals and their related pipelines. Since 2009, he has filled the role of Conservation Director where his work has broadened to protecting the Columbia River from a barrage of dirty fossil fuel export proposals including LNG export terminals, coal export terminals, oil-by-rail facilities, and power plants. Dan is also a member of the Hanford Advisory Board, where he speaks up as a public voice demanding faster and more robust cleanup of North America’s most contaminated nuclear site.
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