NW Tribes Send Message to Goldman Sachs on Coal Export Proposals
Northwest Indian tribes plan to take their opposition to coal export plans to Goldman Sachs shareholder meeting this week. Goldman Sachs owns 51 percent of the parent company of SSA Marine, the developer proposing North America’s largest coal export facility north of Bellingham, Washington at Cherry Point. The …
Link
Business Week, March 28, 2013
Several long-term studies are pointing to the significant impacts from coal-fired pollutants in our air and the associated instances of profound birth defects.
See the Business Week article summarizing these findings here:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/air-pollution-birth-defects-and-the-risk-in-china-and-beyond#p1…
CWB letter in The Seattle Times on need for coal port study
The Seattle Times, Letters to the Editor
Coal project proponents should welcome close scrutiny
This week Gov. Jay Inslee asked the federal government to undertake a “thorough examination” of Washington’s proposed coal-export facilities, as reported in The Seattle Times. I have noticed that each time an elected …
SSA signs contract for an additional 16 million metric tons of coal exports/yr at Cherry Point.
SSA Marine signed a second deal on February 13 to ship coal out of the proposed GPT coal port at Cherry Point–this one with Cloud Peak for up to 16 million metric tons a year on top of 24 MMT with Peabody Coal signed in 2O11. SSA Marine …
Read CWB’s “Scoping” comments on the GPT environmental review.
CWB submitted a range of comments on the scope of the GPT coal port environmental review. All summaries and links to full submissions can be viewed here or view below.
1. EIS Must Include New Train Idling Track in Bellingham.
Summary – click here for press release on …
Economic Impact Forum video presentations now online
Missed the Economic Impact Forum on GPT impacts?
Watch the short presentations online. Then make a Scoping comment today–only 1 week remaining in the GPT Public Comment period.
View presentations here.…
Submit your “Scoping” comments by 1/22. Learn how.
…
Seattle Scoping – TVW Video, Times Editorial
TVW, the C-SPAN like non-profit that covers Washington Legislative and Court Proceedings among many other public service news and documentary services has posted a complete professional video of the main session from the Seattle Scoping meeting. It is about three hours but we thought it might be of …
Crosscut Restrospective – The Statewide Scoping Hearings
Crosscut, December, 17, 2012
Crosscut’s Bellingham based reporter Floyd McKay has been following the GPT project for some two years. He also attended 5 of the 7 statewide Scoping Hearings that were sponsored by the “Agencies” (Whatcom County, Corps of Engineers, Department of Ecology). For those who did not …
The Herald Urges a Stronger Voice on Coal Exports from the New Governor
The Herald Editorial Board, December, 12, 2012
In their Op-Ed, The Herald (the primary newspaper serving Snohomish County) urges our new Governor-elect, Jay Inslee, to take a more active leadership role on the various coal export facilities facing NW Washington. With the exception of Oregon Governor, Jon Kitzhaber, high-ranking …
