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.»
Not exact matches
Other Powder River Basin producers, including top US
coal miner Peabody Energy, have talked about the potential for a new
export facility on the West Coast, with Oregon and Washington being mentioned as the top locations of choice.
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.
And when Obama is ousted new
coal exporting facilities will be built and old ones expanded so hold
on to your
coal stocks.
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.
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.