Floyd McKay
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| How coal trains could choke NW's economic engines | A new study of rail transportation problems associated with the transport of millions of tons of coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to proposed export terminals in the Pacific Northwest was released today in Montana, citing "a huge, huge increase in volume that we'… |
2012-07-17 | |
| Coal port advocates narrow the range of environmental impacts | Gateway Pacific Terminals filed several hundred pages of documents late Monday with Whatcom County planners, setting in motion the formal processes that could result in the nation's largest coal-exporting terminal on a 1,200-acre deepwater site at Cherry Point north of Bellingham. |
2012-03-21 | |
| Foreclosure notices stay with print papers | They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of… |
2012-02-01 | |
| The strange case of Washington's newest newspaper publisher | Community newspapers, those familiar once- or twice-weekly papers that line family scrapbooks with tales of athletic glory, county-fair ribbons and Main Street parades, are as much a part of the region's history as courthouse statues and church steeples. A newspaper was often among the very… |
2012-01-31 | |
| Lummi Nation raises its profile on coal port plan | A new set of applications to develop the West Coast's largest coal-shipping port north of Bellingham at Cherry Point is expected to be filed early in 2012, with parties gearing up for political as well as environmental struggles over the proposal. |
2011-12-08 | |
| University of Oregon blows its innovation chance | "The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low," is a frequent quote attributed to Columbia University political scientist Wallace Sayre. Anyone who has dozed through a committee meeting on curricular projects or office assignments can relate. But… |
2011-12-06 | |
| Coal-export plan survives election cliffhangers | It started out as a "mixed bag" election in Whatcom County on Nov. 8 and, after a week of nail-biting changes in two closely watched races, wound up in the same place for both sides of the controversy over a major export terminal that would be the nation's largest coal port. … |
2011-11-16 | |
| Bellingham coal port plan trips over new objections | October is threatening to turn into a rough month for developers of a large shipping terminal at Cherry Point north of Bellingham. SSA Marine, which is proposing the exporting of some 48 million tons of coal a year plus 8 million tons of other commodities, continues to have problems because of… |
2011-10-05 | |
| Coal-export plans turn into a running battle | The nation’s largest coal mining companies had hoped for quick approval of plans to export Powder River Basin coal from Wyoming and Montana to the endless power plants and factories of China. But summer settles into fall with permit applications in abeyance and growing resistance in Pacific… |
2011-09-22 | |
| Climate hawk Inslee leaves McKenna room to maneuver | Jay Inslee's entry into the 2012 Washington gubernatorial race brings with it one of the newer terms in the American political lexicon: "climate hawk," of which Inslee appears to be one with full talons as epaulets. |
2011-06-30 |