Floyd McKay
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| Coal ports' critics question the economics | Developers of two giant coal-export terminals proposed in Washington “are facing severe headwinds” in a volatile global energy economy, a nationally-known consultant on the economics of coal said Wednesday in Seattle. |
2014-11-20 | |
| Coal exports from Bellingham could ramp up rapidly | Developers of the largest of the region’s proposed coal-export terminals have shifted their site plan to claim a dramatic reduction in impacts on wetlands. |
2014-07-23 | |
| B.C. oil pipeline: A threat to the whole Northwest? | In Big Energy’s massive rush to export oil and coal from inland United States and Canadian mines and wells to the hungry power users of Asia, there’s a leader. First-past-the-post honors go to Northern Gateway. |
2014-06-23 | |
| State faces environmental, traffic hurdles in Longview | Now in the throes of election season, Gov. Matt Mead hit the campaign trail this week. But the governor, who faces two challengers in August’s Republican primary, did not shake hands in Cheyenne or pose for pictures in Sheridan. |
2014-06-06 | |
| A green line of governors: Can Inslee, Kitzhaber stop energy exports? | Elections have consequences, it is often said, and the elections of 2010 and 2012 brought to the West Coast a solid green line of governors: John Kitzhaber in Oregon, Jerry Brown in California and Jay Inslee in Washington. Climate change is under attack in all three states, and rhetoric is… |
2014-05-01 | |
| Warrior Up! | The bay is a dull pewter sheet, water and sky beautifully indistinguishable. Cormorants, gulls, and scoters glide and dip, slurping ooligan, crustaceans, and the occasional herring. Harbor seals surface and stare. Ospreys eye the shallows for flopping pink salmon. An autumn sun warms the… |
2014-03-03 | |
| Bellingham coal port: One financial giant exits, another enters | Ownership of the proposed coal port at Cherry Point north of Bellingham shifted abruptly Tuesday, with a Goldman Sachs subsidiary dropping out and a major Mexican businessman stepping in. |
2014-01-08 | |
| Coal port faces huge obstacle in Lummi opposition | Lummi master carver Jewell James is taking another ceremonial totem pole on a long trip, but this time it won’t be going as a healing pole — like those he carved for the three 9-11 sites — this pole is a political and cultural statement aimed at the export of coal from ports in the Pacific… |
2013-08-20 | |
| Coming soon: Oil trains. All the risk, fewer regulations | The Pacific Northwest Energy Boom rolled into Vancouver, Wash., in a big way Tuesday, sparking more debate about how the region can handle demands from oil and coal companies for export terminals shipping to markets in the U.S. and Asia. |
2013-07-25 | |
| Coal Train: The people and process behind Bellingham's coal port decision | “The long and winding road . . . that leads to your door.” Paul McCartney’s road could scarcely be longer and more twisted than the process that rolls forth next week as public comment closes (for the moment) on the controversial proposal to build a giant coal-export terminal north of Bellingham… |
2013-01-23 |