I’ll look up the board members and advisors later unless you’ve already done it. You’ve done a lot of homework already. Almost ready for prime time. :)
The environmental groups were all up in arms about this project in the beginning and told me that the reason that Governor Gregoire and Maria Cantwell were facilitating the terminal is because their is tremendous pressure out WA DC being put on them.
The coal is just the first phase of the project and China has told the developers that the Chinese market for the coal is extremely time limited, like 3 years. The terminal won’t even be built in three years. The goal is grain (thus the union violence in Longview) The developers have told a group of western farmers that they can get the federal restrictions on growing grains and soy beans lifted if they will agree to ship the grain through the SSA terminal to China.
The goal of the Obama administration is to switch the center of shipping away from the Mississippi to the west coast and Asia through Special Economic Zones (UN Agenda 21). The first step in this agenda was to reduce the dredging on the Mississippi last year (before the floods). I think that the level of the river was reduced by 2 feet, which could have made the difference in the flooding in some areas, but definitely resulted in a slowing down of shipping on the river.
Oh, and there’s more. The Chinese are working on building a Special Economic zone of their own in the US, south of Boise, Idaho. They not only intend to build a factory to make machine parts, they intend to bring in the workers, too.
Crucial Trade Waterway Under Threat
Forget about that personal stuff in NY, my daughter's husband doesn't want her to get involved.