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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
Coal port faces a new level of environmental scrutiny

Unprecedented.

Both backers and critics of a massive coal-export terminal north of Bellingham used that term Wednesday as a scope of environmental review was announced by federal, state and Whatcom County officials. The results, which will include a look at…

2013-08-02
Blue Horse exhibit honors WWU design leader Marvin Southcott

At the urging of his friends, my buddy Layne Southcott was inspired to have an exhibit of works by his dad, Marvin, who died in February.

Moving with his family to Bellingham from California in 1969, Marvin began developing an industrial design program for what was then Western Washington…

2013-04-04
Retired WWU professor, a global warming skeptic, meets with Wash. senators

A new Republican-dominated majority in the state Senate dedicated a rare block of time Tuesday to hear the views of a global warming skeptic who argued that federal scientists have been manipulating climate data to inflate temperatures.

2013-03-27
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
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
Scientist talks to county residents about climate change

By the end of the century, fall flooding on the Skagit River will be more severe, catastrophic coastal flooding could happen every year and salmon could be further endangered by low summer runoff, a University of Washington climate scientist told a packed house Thursday morning.
University…

2012-06-25
June Ross memorial set for May 12 in Bellingham 2012-05-02
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
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