We Are The Mosquito Fleet:
A rapid response network of sailors, paddlers, artists, and landlubbers engaging in direct action to halt the export of oil, gas, and coal through the Pacific Northwest.
Swarming Against Global Warming
We have a Zero Tolerance policy for any new:
Oil Trains
Oil by rail shipments have increased by 4000% in the US and 28,000% in Canada since 2009. Washington has proposals for as many as 100 oil-trains per week traversing the state. Our priority campaign is to stop Shell (now the most infamous company in the Puget Sound) from building a massive new oil-train terminal at its oldest American refinery in Anacortes WA.
Tanker Terminals
Washington State is facing more than half a dozen new oil terminals where mile-long explosive oil-trains offload their toxic burden to waiting oil tankers. Grays Harbor is facing 3 terminals. Vancouver WA (just across the Columbia River from Portland OR) is facing the largest oil terminal on the West Coast with a projected throughput of 360,000 barrels of oil per day.
Gas Pipelines
If built the Pacific Connector pipeline will transport up to 1.2 Billion cubic feet of liquid natural gas per day to the Jordan Cove terminal in Coos Bay OR. The terminal is designed to export up to 1 Billion cubic feet of gas fracked from the US and Canadian Rockies to international markets, every day. 17,000 people live in the blast-radius of the terminal which is located in a Tsunami zone.