Sentences with phrase «coal trains»

I don't see how any informed person could drive by 20 miles of coal trains and not see them as trains of death.

Call me cynical, but that seems like a loophole big enough to drive several coal trains through.

The proposed coal export terminals have serious implications for rail congestion in the region as well as road congestion due to delays as coal trains pass through towns.

I see you've been quoted before describing coal trains as death trains.

The next round of impacts occurs in connection with transport, including dust, coal spills, and disruption of communities by mile - long coal trains.

The typical coal train is 100 to 120 cars long — a mile of coal.

This paragraph described thoughts that went through my head as I observed a remarkable string, mile after mile, of coal trains.

Hmmm, anyone done scenarios for operating railroads with fewer coal trains in the system?

The increase in coal train traffic also jeopardizes Bellingham's recent $ 2 billion Waterfront Redevelopment Project to attract business and development for the region.

With the increase of fossil fuel transport in recent years the yard has become a crucial staging ground for coal trains headed to Canadian export terminals and oil trains bound for Washington refineries.

Every night an old coal train chugs in to central Beijing to deliver its load to the Guohua power plant, one of the city's oldest power stations now surrounded by glitzy malls and towering apartment blocks.

The rail capacity consumed by coal trains limit expansion of passenger trains and impairs trains ability to cost - effectively and quickly transport Washington's other products.

coal trains go through here all day long and no one notices.

With coal trains already coursing through the Lower Mainland to the much larger Westshore and Neptune terminals, it's not surprising the environmental report behind the port authority's decision found no appreciable impacts on the health of area residents.

Most recently three Seattle residents, including state legislative candidate Jess Spear, were arrested blocking oil and coal trains near the Seattle Waterfront.

In parallel, the Ende Gelände direct actions targeting the open mining pit, with activists occupying sites on the mine and blocking coal trains.

Bishop stated the arrival of one coal train per day would create 100 ship calls per year.

Just as Nebraska doesn't want the Keystone XL pipeline running through its backyard, coastal states such as Washington and Oregon don't want to see an endless string of coal trains hauling millions of tons of coal to export terminals on the Pacific.

Coal dust billowing off the American coal trains careening through our towns is coating the homes and lungs of children in British Columbia.

Coal trains along the Columbia River.

«Look, if a train derails carrying coal, no big deal,» he said, because coal trains are unlikely to cause significant harm to others nearby when they go off tracks.

On July 4, 2012, a BNSF Railway coal train crew noticed a sunk kink in tracks near Pendleton, Texas.

Postscript, Jan. 24, 2:10 p.m. Click here to listen to (and watch) «Coal Train Blues,» performed by the Counterfeit [Johnny] Cash band from Portland, Ore..

I am impressed by Mr Simon's letter, I think it will work for makeing young people image their future, but I still think Dr Hansen's express using death train to say coal train and Holocust to say tell people now is terable world.

Comparing coal trains to holocaust trains is insulting and idiotic.

This is only one step along the way from mine to market — coal trains derail far more often than you might think (in North Dakota, Michigan, and Nebraska, just this past month), loaded barges crash into bridges (just this week), terminals flood when severe storms come through, and ships even crash into the loading docks.

Expansions at the Fraser Surrey Docks coal export facility in Vancouver, Canada would increase the number of coal trains moving through Washington.

The addition of coal trains at projected numbers would require massive investment in rail infrastructure such as sidings, double - tracking, and other improvements in order for our train system to function effectively.

Sixteen uncovered coal trains would move in and out of Longview each day.

«The next day I joined the blockade of coal trains on the train tracks from the mine to the plant.

Between Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its capacity.

And in just the past two weeks we've had 4 coal train derailments.

Tita's work shows what a 137 - car coal train will look like passing through small towns.

Oh, and why use locally sited renewables when the grid goes away for several months instead of coal supplied by coal trains traveling across the continent, or fossil fuel supplied by pipelines and trucks from refineries across the continent?

For example, if all the coal we currently consume in the U.S. in a single year in our coal - fired power plants were loaded onto a single coal train, that train would be 83,000 miles long.

Opponents say the increase in coal train traffic, air pollution and damage to waterways and other ecosystems would outstrip any economic benefits.

Last fall, I blogged about the massive 7,500 foot long coal trains, to get a feel for how this might disrupt those communities.

That's 60 coal trains per day.

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.

For example, it took as long as 200 hours for a coal train to run from the Powder River Basin to Missouri and back, compared with 120 hours in 2013.

Driving back from Tinsley, Schnacke and I pass a coal train.

Coal trains and ash ponds weigh on the land.

Another BNSF coal train, also with 31 loaded cars, derailed as it was passing through Mesa, Wash., on July 2, 2012 because of a sun kink, and on June 23 a sun kink caused a Union Pacific coal train to derail in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.