RIP -- one more controversial Northwest coal export port
One more big, controversial proposed coal export terminal in the Northwest has been canceled.
The Port of Vancouver (British Columbia) has pulled the plug on the Fraser Surrey Docks proposal, not far from the U.S.-Canadian border, which would have brought open coal trains through greater Vancouver and ocean-going ships into the Fraser River.
The coal port would have received 4 million metric tons of coal a year from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, for shipment to Asian markets.
"The decision to cancel permits for this coal port shows that the world is turning away from this dirty energy of the past and towards a clean energy future," said Regna Merritt of the Washington-based Power Past Coal environmental coalition.
The fossil fuel industry, at the start of this decade, saw the Northwest as a lifeline for the beleaguered coal industry.
With coal plants shutting down, and coal losing its share of the U.S. energy market, Asian markets could make up the slack.
But economics and public opposition have come to stand in the way. The huge Gateway Pacific terminal, proposed for Cherry Point north of Bellingham, succumbed to opposition from the nearby Lummi Indian Nation.
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