Our guests today are Bethany Cotton with Greenpeace and Julia DeGraw with Food and Water Watch.
Bethany discusses the plans by corporate issues to turn the Pacific Northwest into a fossil fuel export epicenter. Major national and multinational corporations plan to build coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals in Oregon and Washington. Those plans have met with great local resistance. Bethany discusses the environmental and economic consequences of these exports as well as way people can be, and have been, involved in the developing opposition.
Julia gives us an update on Nestle’s planned bottled water plant in Cascade Locks. For her, the issue is who has the right to water – a private corporation or the people of Oregon.