Hello Tacoma, The largest methanol refinery in the US is being proposed for the former Kaiser Smelter site at the Port of Tacoma. This refinery will use tremendous amounts of fresh water, electricity and fracked gas to make methanol to be turned into plastics in China. Methanol is highly volatile at room temperature. This from today's TNT article: "The plant will require a lot of power - up to 450 megawatts at its peak. Tacoma Power's entire customer base used 543 megawatts on average in 2014." "The methanol plant's water use could be as high as 10,000 gallons per minute, Skaggs said, or 14.4 million gallons per day. That's about two-thirds of what Tacoma Water's residential customers together used in 2014" Please go here for updates on the chemical refinery: https://www.facebook.com/NoWaterForMethanol/ This is the proposed site, next to a wetland stream and with residential area nearby. Claudia Riedener