Showing posts with label SSA Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSA Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal. Show all posts

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Nerditorial: My Take on the Gateway Pacific Terminal

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Ides of March and the Trojan Coal Horse

From Get Whatcom Planning:

Bob Ferris:

Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Coal!" Speak, ReSources is turn'd to hear.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Bellingham: Back to coal with planned shipping terminal?


The plan for Cherry Point envisions a facility twice the size of the largest coal-shipping terminal on the West Coast, Westshore in Vancouver, B.C.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Peabody Energy and SSA Marine Enter Into Long-Term Agreement for Powder River Basin Coal Exports

ST. LOUIS, Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU - News) announced an agreement with SSA Marine to initially export up to 24 million metric tons of coal per year through the planned Gateway Pacific Terminal in Whatcom County in northwest Washington.  Coal export volumes would be dependent upon global market demand, terminal capacity and other factors.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Crosscut: Coal plans raise questions for Bellingham

By Floyd McKay  

International mining giants that hope to sell more American coal to fuel the power plants and factories of China have their eyes set on Washington state ports to load the huge ships. But the link between mines and ports is over a thousand miles of railroad, and the impact of the mile-long coal trains is beginning to create pushback along the line.