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The thin green line
The document discusses several proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, totaling up to 64 million metric tons per annum of coal export capacity. It notes there has been massive public participation opposing the terminals due to concerns about increased coal and oil transport, including fracked oil from North Dakota and tar sands oil from Alberta. The document questions whether a "Thin Green Line" of resistance can help the region win the fight against the proposals.
The thin green line
- 1. The Thin GreenLine Resistance and Solutions rallen@lairdnorton.org
- 11. Grays Harbor (RailAmerica) – 5 MTPA Coos Bay (Mitsui, Metro Ports) – 10 MTPA St. Helens (Kinder Morgan) – 15 – 30 MTPA Port of Morrow (Ambe)- 9 MTPA
- 15. 15 15 Proposed coal routedown “A” Street, Rainier, Oregon
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- 21. Can the NorthwestThin Green Line Win the fight against Dirty Coal and Big Oil?
- 22. It’s not justcoal headed our way: • Fracked “tight oil” from North Dakota - Bakken • Tar sands oil from Alberta
- 30. Photo courtesy PaulAnderson
Editor's Notes
- #4 Targeted coal campaign across the country targeting the #1 offender – coal.
- #5 Post Loss at the federal level – Climate movement landed on fossil fuel infrastructure resistance
- #6 With Markets shrinking, these two campaign collided
- #8 Beth Slide 3:
- #10 The Thin Green Line History of Coal Entrance of Oil
- #13 Quick personal story. River I love. Catch and eat salmon, play with kids What’s at stake? Communties threatened by coal trains Coal is toxic, mercury, lead, arsenic
- #16 3. Impact local business and quality of life - Human health, asthma
- #20 How did we decide what to work on? How to narrow focus of campaign? Coal companies want to open up Pacific Northwest ports so that they can supply American coal to Asia. Current plans call for shipping more than 100 million tons of coal each year, roughly 20 times as much as Washington’s only coal plant burns. That would make us one of the largest coal export communities in the world. There are currently, 5 proposals to transport coal on rail lines from Spokane down to the Columbia River up I-5. This would amount to more than 150 million tons of coal passing through our towns and cities each year.