Sentences with phrase «coal terminal»

On August 9, 2011 Vancouver and Longview citizen groups announced they are suing Millenium Bulk Logistics, the owner of a proposed coal terminal in Longview.

Residents of the Pacific Northwest have long been a bulwark against coal and oil corporations, defeating destructive mega-projects like the Gateway Pacific coal terminal in Whatcom County, Washington and the Waterside Energy oil refinery in Longview, Washington.

By Samantha Wohlfeil MAY 9, 2016 11:09 AM The proposed coal terminal at Xwe» chi'eXen, also knows as Cherry Point, Wash., is dead in the water after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a landmark decision and denied a federal permit Monday, May 9.

Further, if Gateway Pacific coal terminal had moved forward, the new port terminal would have negatively impacted the ancestral lands and fisheries of the Lummi tribal nation.

In December, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt gave the go - ahead to the Abbot Point coal terminal expansion at Bowen in north Queensland.

Calibre Group's maintenance and construction subsidiary, G&S Engineering Services, has been awarded new and extended work on the Hay Point Coal terminal expansion for BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Allia

Plans are afoot to build giant new coal terminals on the West Coast to ship this lucrative commodity to China.

The terminal would move 44 million metric tons of coal annually — making it one of the largest coal terminals in North America.

The Power Past Coal coalition (which Climate Solutions helped found and is part of) worked tirelessly with many local leaders and community groups for seven years to keep this dirty coal terminal from coming to fruition.

In Queensland, as discussed below, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding a proposed expansion of the Dalrymple Bay coal terminal at Hay Point.

The Port Kembla Coal Terminal say it's struggling to remain competitive and denies it is trying to scrap long - standing union agreements.

Working with Power Past Coal — an alliance of environmental, health, and community organizations — we delivered more than 124,000 public comments voicing grassroots opposition to this dirty coal terminal.

And residents throughout the Pacific Northwest have been successfully campaigning against proposals to build hulking new coal terminals along their waterfronts.

Yet in 2014, the GBRMA approved a permit for a state - owned coal terminal operator to dump as much as 3 million cubic meters of dredged mud and sediment inside the park.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

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.

Enviros say Gov. Jay Inslee, a pioneer of the U.S. clean economy, gives them a shot at blocking NW coal terminals.

We have uplifted shared values of justice, responsibility, and stewardship in numerous rounds of public comments and hearings about this proposed coal terminal because our religious traditions tell us that we have moral responsibility to protect and care for God's creation and our communities.

On May 11, 2011, the Port of Morrow Commission approved a one - year lease option with Coyote Island Terminal LLC of Salt Lake City, Utah, to build a rail off - loading coal terminal on up to 24.26 acres to transfer the coal onto barges for shipment to the Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal in Washington, and on to customers in Asia.

In November 2009 Cowlitz County approved Ambre Energy's proposal to establish a new 5 millions tonnes per annum export coal terminal.

Millennium says it has entered a «new phase» in its five - year effort to build one of North America's biggest coal terminals after Cowlitz County officials issued the first permit needed for the $ 680 million project.

McDuffie Coal Terminal on the south end of the Port of Mobile, supplied by coal from from as far away as Wyoming — most of which is transported by rail.

The group is made of up 22 members including coal terminal developers, railroads, business and union groups as well as the three largest mining companies in the Powder River Basin: Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Cloud Peak Energy.

Coal terminals also are proposed at two other sites along the Columbia River.

In addition to the local impact on marine life and coastlines in the Northwest, building the Bellingham coal terminal and others like it would provide access to the vast Asian market for big coal companies in the U.S. that are losing domestic market share to cleaner - burning natural gas and green energy.

The Lummi formally asked the United States government to deny permits for a massive, 48 million ton per year coal terminal adjacent their reservation just north of Bellingham.

A Lummi fisherman stares across the water at the Westshore coal terminal in British Columbia, similar to the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal.

Newcastle's three massive coal terminals are that city's top source of PM10 and have seen a 70 % increase in emissions over five years.

These members of the Lummi Nation will travel 1,200 miles from the coal strip - mine sites in the Powder River Basin to the proposed coal terminal site at Cherry Point in Washington.

It followed release of internal company e-mails revealing that the company wanted Longview to be the West Coast's largest coal terminal.

The proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal would have been built in northwest Washington, and would have exported up to 48 million tons of coal each year to Asia, sending 1,000 colossal coal ships through the Salish Sea.

At the moment, their goal is to stop a proposed $ 15 - million coal terminal from being built in suburban Vancouver.

Monitor and control system for Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT).

The Port Kembla Coal Terminal, south of Wollongong, locks out about 60 of its workers as part of an intensifying dispute about its future.

Proposed coal terminals in Longview and Bellingham or oil terminals in Vancouver and Gray's Harbor, would lead to more carbon emissions than produced in the state of Washington each year.

The state says Millennium Bulk Terminals is partially to blame for the holdup in permitting a proposed coal terminal in Longview.

Developers of the proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point have withdrawn its permit applications, essentially closing the book on the project.

Friends of the Earth played a vital role in stopping the proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal, dealing a severe blow to the fossil fuel industry.

The only barrier to the construction of the coal terminal were federal permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who were responsible for assessing the impact the coal terminal would have on the local environment.

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a landmark decision to deny federal permits for Gateway Pacific coal terminal, it dealt a fatal blow to the coal project.

The resolution also calls on Brown to tell the governors of Washington and Oregon about the «significant health risks» that coal terminals and the increase in coal rail traffic could pose to the people of the Pacific Northwest.

Arch had declared bankruptcy in January 2016, and got no money in return for «selling» its interest in the coal terminal.

Chronic coal - dust blowing off the stockpiles at a coal terminal are the basis of a Clean Water Act lawsuit in Seward, Alaska, and one of the main arguments throughout the Pacific Northwest against expanding coal export terminals to move more Powder River Basin coal from Wyoming to Asian markets.

This analysis was completed before the coal terminals were proposed and the addition of coal trains would dramatically amplify the delays and limitations in Washington's rail system already identified in 2006.