Olympia Washington NO LNG Rally

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

Video of the Rally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aAwPMUCdM

Audio of the Rally: http://www.PhilosopherSeed.org/mp3/Olympia.mp3

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 Rebecca Wolf of the Cascade chapter of the Sierra Club, George Exum of Wahkiakum Friends of the Columbia River, Gerald Pollet, Heart of America Northwest 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 affect 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."

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!