Trainloads of Powder River coal travel to
the coal export facility in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, daily.
A proposed
coal export facility in Longview, Washington has been stopped, as a state agency denied a key permit the project needed to move forward.
Expansions at the Fraser Surrey Docks
coal export facility in Vancouver, Canada would increase the number of coal trains moving through Washington.
Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's largest
coal export facility in Washington State.
It is also looking at building a large
coal export facility in Oregon.
Rainforest Action Network along with Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers organized a 60 person rally in from of the office of coal exporter Ambre Energy asking them to stop their development of
coal export facilities in Longview, Washington.
In a nutshell, Power demonstrates that the planned
coal export facilities in the Northwest would add to the supply of coal to China thereby pushing down the cost of burning it.
Not exact matches
Companies are angling to build two
export facilities in Washington State from which 100 million tons of
coal would be shipped to China, Japan and South Korea a year — about the same as what the United States
exports now from East Coast and Gulf ports.
Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved
in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG
export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users
in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced
coal — i.e., because of the LNG
export supply chain, it has no advantage over
coal.
The report goes on to note that «a
coal export facility with the capacity to ship 20 - 30 million tons per year of Peabody Powder River Basin
coal would result
in the
export of 35 - 53 million tons of CO2 per year.
Hunt is the man who gave the go - ahead for a huge new
coal export facility at Abbot Point
in Queensland.
We have a problem
in the West with
coal exporting facilities.
Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and
coal plants, and
coal export facilities) «lock
in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.
The project would be the first LNG
export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built
in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing
coal - fired power plants combined.
This wasn't an issue till
export facilities started getting planned
in Washington,
coal has been
exported from the PRB for several years and nothing was ever said.
U.S.
coal exports are largely concentrated
in a few
facilities, with the leading seven ports accounting for 94 % of U.S.
exports.
This means shipping
coal on a huge number of trains through communities
in the Pacific Northwest every day, and then processing it at massive
coal export facilities.
Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank
in Delta — the largest
coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»
Westshore
coal export terminal at Roberts Bank,
in Delta, is the largest
export facility on the Pacific coast and there are plans to make it larger.