Sentences with phrase «for coal export facilities»
Last month, 53 members of Congress — including Washington State's Republican Rep. Doc Hastings — sent a letter to the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior, which grants leases to mine coal, asking the agencies to «expedite their consideration of permits for coal export facilities.»
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Millennium Bulk Terminals (MBT), a subsidiary of Australia - based Ambre Energy, has proposed to modify the terminal to include a new coal export facility and equipment for cement products imports and distribution.
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.
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.
Hunt is the man who gave the go - ahead for a huge new coal export facility at Abbot Point in Queensland.
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.
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.
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.