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Showing posts with label SSA Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSA Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal. Show all posts
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
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
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Ides of March and the Trojan Coal Horse
From Get Whatcom Planning:
Bob Ferris:
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.
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.
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.
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