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Washington Rejects Major Coal Export Terminal – Resounding "No" to Fossil Fuels
Last week's decision deals a serious blow to the Millennium Bulk Terminals project – which has already experienced the bankruptcy filing of its parent firm Arch Coal, in the latest of several blows to the fossil fuel industry in the Northwest.
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How to Stop an Oil Train: The Hearts-and-Minds Climate Defense That Won Over a Courtroom
The Delta 5 loss was actually a big win as climate activists were found not guilty of blocking a train and guilty only of trespass in the second degree, and sentences were issued with no jail time.
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Thin Green Line: Does Pacific Northwest Hold Key To Our Climate Future?
With huge gas and coal export terminals planned in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, "this sliver of coast basically is what stands between companies wrecking the climate or not.”
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Thin Green Line: How Oil and Gas Are Losing the War for the West
Due to burgeoning resistance movements, the Cascadia region in the Pacific Northwest has proven to be extraordinarily challenging for companies seeking to make it a carbon energy export hub.
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Oregon Delivers Defeat to Coal Industry Denying Key Permit for Export Terminal
The Morrow Pacific coal terminal would have not only encouraged CO2-emitting coal to be burned elsewhere, but would pollute local waterways and increase rail and truck traffic in once restful regions.
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Clock Ticking, British Columbia Residents Rally to Oppose New Coal Terminal
Combined coal exports from the Fraser Surrey Docks and the recently approved Neptune Terminal would reach 14 million metric tons per year, and the "streamlined" process of environmental review has meant less time for public input.
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How Grassroots Power Reshaped Whatcom County and the Western Coal Debate
Due to stunning November elections in Washington's northwesternmost county, it's unlikely that any new fossil fuel terminals will be built statewide in the foreseeable future. Environmentalists have a lot to learn politically from what worked in Whatcom.
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Fighting Terminal Illness in Longview, Wash., Anti-Coal Activists Step Up The Campaign
With U.S. coal corporations looking overseas, the stage is set for a clash over access to the Pacific Coast — a conflict now playing out in the public scope hearings over the Millennium Bulk Terminal.
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Warren Buffet's BNSF Railway, A King Polluter, Is Getting Sued
BNSF Railway, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the largest coal transporters in the U.S. and a major polluter of the waterways in Western states.
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In Oregon, Another Coal Export Terminal Bites the Dust
Kinder Morgan's decision to halt plans for a new coal export terminal in Oregon sent shockwaves across the Northwest, while protestors from Appalachia descended on D.C. to demand an end to mountaintop removal.
