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An environmental review of a proposed coal-export facility at Cherry Point will take into account pollutants emitted by the facility, rail traffic carrying coal to the facility, and also the impact on greenhouse gases from coal burning in China, India and other export destinations. The scope of environmental review was announced Wednesday by the Department of Ecology, Whatcom County and …
The World Bank Group has just agreed to stop funding coal projects. This is welcome news as the World Bank Group has funded almost $6 billion in coal projects over the past five years. As a part of a new energy strategy which will cover the Bank’s lending, the Bank agreed that it will only fund coal projects in “rare …
Port Edward is sick and tired of cleaning coal dust off their properties and are now raising concerns to federal and provincial agencies. Port Edward council passed a motion last week to contact the environment ministry at both the federal and provincial levels over the ongoing issue of coal dust reaching Port Edward from the Ridley Terminals Inc. (RTI) coal-loading …
Black smoke could be seen for several kilometers after a fire at Westshore Terminals early Tuesday afternoon. A Port Metro Vancouver spokesperson said the fire broke out at one of the loaders at around 12:50 p.m. It was a small blaze and was extinguished by 1:15 p.m. No one was injured as a result of the fire. The cause and …
Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday in Portland and Hermiston, Ore., for simultaneously held hearings on a proposal to transport coal by train to the Columbia River so it can be shipped to Asia. Read the full story here.
Marathon public hearings for three air and water quality permits to allow coal export through Boardman started at 8 a.m. today in Portland and Hermiston and continue until 8 p.m. Although the crowd in the opening minutes of the hearings this morning was sparse, at least 520 people have signed up to speak at the hearings. Portland’s hearing is at …
COWLITZ COUNTY – In anticipation of the scoping period for an environmental impact statement (EIS) that three agencies plan to jointly prepare for a proposed coal export terminal near Longview, the agencies are announcing tentative dates for scoping meetings so people can plan for them. Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview LLC proposes to build and operate a terminal at the site of …
More than 800 people turned out for Spokane’s public hearing on coal export last December, some from as far away as Eastern Montana. The vast majority of them called on the government to study the full range of potential impacts of plans to make the Northwest a conveyor belt for 100 million tons of coal every year from mines in …
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not conduct an all-encompassing review of the three coal export projects proposed in the Northwest, rejecting requests from Oregon and Washington’s governors and project opponents. Jennifer Moyer, acting chief of the Corps’ regulatory program, told a House subcommittee today that the agency would review the three proposed export terminals separately, and would not …
A few months ago more than 124,000 comments by community members including doctors, teachers, business owners, fishers and tribal members flooded the Department of Ecology, Army Corps of Engineers and Whatcom County Planning Department with requests that these regulating agencies assess a broad range of probable impacts associated with the proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal. Read the full story here.
