Stop GTN XPress

For years, communities in the Northwest have been standing up to fossil fuel corporations. Now, TC Energy (the company behind Keystone XL) is trying to quietly expand the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline with an additional 150 million cubic feet of gas per day while also adding a new gas compressor station in Morrow County, OR. The GTN Pipeline is a 60 year old pipeline that snakes through Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Communities have been tirelessly fighting to stop GTN XPress in its tracks--before federal regulators make a decision as soon as April 20, 2023.

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For years, communities in the Northwest have been standing up to fossil fuel corporations. Now, TC Energy (the company behind Keystone XL) is trying to quietly expand the Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) pipeline with an additional 150 million cubic feet of gas per day while also adding a new gas compressor station in Morrow County, OR. The GTN Pipeline is a 60 year old pipeline that snakes through Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Communities have been tirelessly fighting to stop GTN XPress in its tracks--before federal regulators make a decision as soon as April 20, 2023.

Expanding the volume of methane gas through the aging GTN Pipeline would create 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year–the equivalent amount of pollution to adding 754,000 passenger vehicles on the road each year until 2052.

This expansion proposal is a significant threat to our climate and the public health and safety of our communities, and also would be a significant setback to Oregon’s climate goals. Methane gas pipelines leak throughout the production, transport, and consumer process, causing health risks–including respiratory disease and asthma– for everyone who lives near the pipeline.

This project would be a step backwards on Washington and Oregon’s commitments to decrease emissions by 95% and 80% by 2050. Communities fought hard to secure those commitments, and GTN XPress would make these climate targets even harder to reach by signficantly increasing emissions.

Governor Inslee, and Oregon Senators’ Wyden and Merkley have already joined the growing list of public opposition to GTN XPress. Instead of investing in dirty fossil fuels, our communities need investment in a just transition to clean energy and energy efficiency.

You can learn more about GTN XPress and the growing coalition to fight this pipeline expansion at this link.

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Tell Governor Tina Kotek: Stop GTN XPress

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Oregon communities are urgently calling on Governor Tina Kotek to publicly oppose TC Energy’s GTN XPress methane gas pipeline expansion proposal–before federal regulators put it up for a vote as early as April 20. Contact Governor Kotek below to add your voice to the growing action to Stop GTN XPress.

Tell Governor Kotek why stopping this fossil fuel expansion is important to you. By sharing your story and personal connection to this topic, elected officials get a better understanding of the needs and priorities of constituents.

Using the example below, send an email to Governor Kotek to ask her to stand with Oregonians by publicly opposing the pipeline expansion proposal.

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Dear Governor Tina Kotek,

Thank you for your work leading Oregonians as our Governor. I am writing to express my opposition to TC Energy’s GTN XPress pipeline expansion project currently in review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). I am asking you to join Governor Inslee, Oregon Senators’ Merkley and Wyden, and Attorney Generals from Oregon, Washington and California in publicly opposing this fracked gas expansion proposal. Please tell FERC that GTN XPress is at odds with Oregon’s climate goals.

Oregonians have come together for decades to oppose and defeat new fracked gas pipelines and become the first state in the country to ban new gas power plants. This project is simply a new approach to support the same harmful interests of fossil fuel companies. Our communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change with record wildfires, droughts, extreme weather events, and flooding. This project would increase the emissions contributing to these conditions.

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Expanding the amount of fracked gas through this aging pipeline will cause an extra 3.47 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, the equivalent of 754,000 passenger vehicles a year on the road. Pipeline and compressor station expansions also create increased health risk for communities living along the pipeline routes and near compressor stations, which are often rural, low-income, and communities of color. Not only is this infrastructure prone to accidents like leaks, fires, and explosions, but communities near the compressor stations would experience increased exposure to cancer-causing pollutants if GTN XPress is permitted by FERC.

Communities in Oregon fought hard to pass climate commitments at the state level, but the goal of reducing emissions in the state by 80% would face a considerable setback if GTN XPress is passed. In August, the State Attorney General’s office, along with AGs' offices in Washington and California, told FERC they oppose GTN XPress and that it’s out of line with state and federal climate goals.

I am asking you to stand with Oregonians in opposition to the fossil fuel project and support a safer future for our communities. Please publicly oppose GTN Xpress and urge FERC to deny permits for the expansion.

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