Multi-billion-dollar plans for three natural gas-consuming methanol plants in the Pacific Northwest were scaled back Tuesday to two plants as the largest proposed facility at Port of Tacoma, WA, was scrapped by the developer, a China-based consortium.
Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) officials said they were terminating their lease for a site on the tide flats with the port following the completion of a “careful review and evaluation” during a pause in the project’s environmental review earlier this year.
NWIW President Vee Godley said the methanol plant developer is still committed to developing its other two proposed sites in the region: Port of Kalama in Washington along the Columbia River, and a second $1.8 billion proposed plant at Port of St. Helens on an 83-acre site at Port Westward, on the Oregon side of the river.
