Seattle ‘green’ consultants sell out for coal money, whine
As I’ve argued several times, the battle over coal-export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is the key U.S. climate fight of the next few years. Coal-port expansion is the fifth most carbon-intensive project currently planned in the world, bigger than anything else over which American politicians have control. In other…
Renewable Energy Policy Uncertainty Stalls A Fossil Fuel-Free Future, Experts Say
From his solar panel manufacturing facility in Marysville, Wash., Gary Shaver can see and hear passing coal trains. “The tracks are maybe a block away, and this is not a Texas block,” said Shaver, president of Silicon Energy, LLC. To get to and from his factory, workers and clients have…
Get the Coal Energy Facts: Help Us Stop Coal Exports
Newly released video from Greenpeace breaks down Peabody, Arch, and Ambre’s plans to export publicly-owned coal and fuel the climate crisis. The video stars Alia Shawkat – best know as Maeby from Arrested Development.
Ambre Energy’s plans for Northwest coal export terminals rest on shaky finances, environmental think tank charges
A Seattle environmental think tank that opposes coal exports to Asia through the Northwest blasted the finances of one of the key players today, Australia’s Ambre Energy. Ambre is seeking to build two coal export terminals on the Columbia River, one in Boardman and one in Longview, Wash., to ship…
Railroad threatens a quiet Amish way of life
COLSTRIP, Mont. — David Borntreger and his family moved from Missouri to a remote corner of southeastern Montana in 1997 to escape the increasing pressures of the modern world. Borntreger, his brother Levi, and their families are members of a small Amish settlement about 120 miles east of Billings, Mont.…
Get the Coal Energy Facts: Help Us Stop Coal Exports
Newly released video from Greenpeace breaks down Peabody, Arch, and Ambre’s plans to export publicly-owned coal and fuel the climate crisis. The video stars Alia Shawkat – best know as Maeby from Arrested Development. See the full video here.
A Battle over the Future of Coal
With a declining market for coal in the United States, the coal industry wants to export its product to China, where demand is bigger than ever. What would rail traffic and new port construction mean for the environment and the “clean economy” of the Pacific Northwest? What about global warming?…
Stop the Coal Trains
You might have heard the talk: Coal interests are pushing to make the Pacific Northwest a 24-hour conveyor belt linking coal mines in Montana and Wyoming with Asian markets clamoring for cheap, dirty power. The most urgent fight is currently taking place just north of Bellingham at Cherry Point, the…