See the blog above regarding coal plants.
Most of our low sulfur content Alaska coal is being shipped to South Korea and Chile.
Nite all!
That term “secured the retirement of coal plants” is enviro-speak for “forced the closure of...”.
My husband is on the Marine Transportation committee that is doing the re-evaluation of the shipping end of the coal terminal. A big part of the problem is that the push for the coal terminal is coming straight out of the White House and you know what that means for WA State. It means the fix is in and it will be really difficult to stop it. It is possible, though. There is some talk that the Longview and Oregon terminals may get passed, but not the Whatcom County terminal. We will see. The unions are putting a lot of pressure on both parties and In Whatcom County, most of our politicians have union ties, if not themselves, their wives.
The coal pushers keep telling us that the coal trains will come anyway, but that just isn’t the case. The planned expansion of the Canadian coal terminals is not intended for moving U.S. sub-bituminous coal, but rather Canadian coal. Constant coal trains, traveling the whole coast of WA is just not a very attractive idea, not good for the health and well-being of the the communities along the way, to say nothing of the negative economic impact. The most heavily impacted community will be my own, nearest the proposed terminal, where they plan to do next to nothing to protect the community from the coal dust.