Platts editors provide an update on four remaining proposed
coal export terminals planned for the Pacific Northwest following the announcement that a second project had been abandoned.
Not exact matches
Protesters from 12 South Pacific nations
plan to block ships entering and leaving Australia's Port of Newcastle, the world's largest
coal export terminal
Those existing ports include Abbot Point, where India's Adani Group and compatriot GVK
plan a huge
coal terminal expansion, and Gladstone, where ship traffic is set to increase sharply from 2015 as huge new liquefied natural gas plants start
exports.
According to Gateway Pacific
Terminal's website the company
plans on providing a «highly efficient portal for American producers to
export dry bulk commodities such as grain, potash and
coal to Asian markets.»
Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing
plans for massive
coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG
export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.
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.
But you'd never believe the «subdued» part from the way the town has become the epicenter of anti-
coal efforts in the Pacific Northwest, as activists have battled
plans for a
coal export terminal.
As with fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and
plans to build
coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.