From Stark
The Sierra Club’s Power Past Coal campaign has launched a television ad campaign warning residents of Spokane and other eastern Washington communities about the disruptions they could face from increased coal train traffic if new West Coast coal export terminals are built.
Among the terminals proposed is Gateway Pacific Terminal at Whatcom County’s Cherry Point.
Here’s the Sierra Club’s press release on the campaign. Among other things, the campaign warns that Spokane and other communities on rail lines could experience as many as 60 additional trains passing through town each day, if all proposed coal ports and built and operating at maximum capacity.
Would all proposed terminals be built, even if they run the political and regulatory gauntlet and get permits? That’s an interesting question.
During a meeting with The Bellingham Herald’s editorial board last month, BNSF Railway Co. Matt Rose said he doesn’t think it likely that all proposed terminals will be built. He noted that a terminal once proposed in Grays Harbor has already been dropped, as The Daily World of Aberdeen has reported.
Rose said the market will probably support two or three such terminals — not five or six.
But it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. (A quote attributed to many people).
I was on vacation when Rose visited the Herald. Ralph Schwartz sat in and provided me with notes.
“He noted that a terminal once proposed in Grays Harbor has already been dropped”
That is all right because other dastardly plans are afoot for Grays Harbor. An Australian gas and oil company is exploring some potential fracking opportunities to get to what is under their shale at Grays Harbor. Don’t worry, the greedy, short sighted villains will be sure to ruin everyone’s backyard- eventually even their own.
Who is the The Sierra Club:
“Lobbying and outdoor group attacking private property rights and free enterprise in the name of saving nature. Sole effort is to centralize control of land and the economy in authoritarian state. The Sierra Club is profiled in Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb’s book, Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America….
And they make a buck out of it too!
Deborah Sorondo COO $235,414
Carl Pope Executive Chairman (2010) $202,689
Michael Brune Executive Director (2010) not yet reported
Louis Barnes CFO $184,737…
John Muir’s old-line conservation group (1892) with a long history of conflicts over resource use, remained in the hands of amateur naturalists like David Brower into the mid-Twentieth Century, then pioneered the professionalization of the environmental movement with the appointment of lawyer Michael McCloskey in 1969. His consummate demagoguery and political acumen led the members to forget their original mission “to make the mountains accessible,” and reframe the issues as a war against industry of any kind, in which only the passage of draconian laws and ferocious use of lawsuits could save nature. It has been a straight line from McCloskey’s war against industry to Michael Brune’s war against industry….
http://www.undueinfluence.com/sierra.htm
No wonder the economy sucks when people like this have the ear of the president, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
It is also well known that the Sierra Club has taken millions upon millions from the gas industry which happens to be in competition with the coal industry, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
So they are a front for the natural gas industry and for the Marxist utopia at the same time?
Coal Heats Best!
http://www.adn.com/2012/09/03/2610093/hurdles-face-uaf-bid-to-find-power.html
From AFY: “No wonder the economy sucks when people like this have the ear of the president, don’t ya know!”
Just came back from North Dakota where we witnessed the Bakken oil boom, which has occurred on Obama’s watch.
Also on Obama’s watch, the natural gas extraction boom which has lowered the price of natural gas dramatically.
The economy does indeed suck in many ways, and Obama may deserve a chunk of the blame for that. But it’s hard to make a case that Obama and the Sierra Club are stifling the economy.
Only the ignorant, selfish and greedy would want the ill-advised GPT project in Whatcom County.
john, politics sure do make strange bed fellows, don’t ya know!
If Obama IMHO didn’t listen to the Sierra Club on the Keystone pipeline(and so much more) then the prosperity you just witness would be spreading to other regions too, even this way eventually, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
What you just witness is mainly on private lands while on the lands control by the feds (Oabama) we find this trend:
•Fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) production on Federal and Indian lands is the lowest in the 9 years EIA reports data and is 6 percent less than in fiscal year 2010.
•Crude oil and lease condensate production on Federal and Indian lands is 13 percent lower than in fiscal year 2010.
•Natural gas production on Federal and Indian lands is the lowest in the 9 years that EIA reports data and is 10 percent lower than in fiscal year 2010.
•Natural gas plant liquids production on Federal and Indian lands is 3 percent lower than in fiscal year 2010.
•Coal production on Federal and Indian lands is the lowest in the 9 years of data that EIA reported and is 2 percent lower than in fiscal year 2010.
Per the The Energy Information Administration (EIA)
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
3 of the proposed terminals would total roughly 120-50 mil. tons per annum. Grays Harbor was 5. I think BNSF’s strategy was to get pols scrambling to “win” the permit race to bring home the jobs. Read about the 600 VA cola miners being laid off because of the dip in international demand? Australia scaling back exports? This boom bust industry is really what we want to dedicate 1200 of the last undeveloped acres zoned heavy impact industrial in the county? Brilliant plan.
A little more on that Boom/Bust!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk&feature=player_embedded
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Peabody wants to move 150 million tons to Asia. They will do it if they have 5, 4, 3 or 2 terminals. Look at how many terminals have doubled in capacity from the original permitted capacity in the world.
Yes, sustainable, and a whole lot more than just Peabody, like Peabody Street, or Peabody Plaza too. Tell us about the Whatcom County Navy, who couldn’t run a canoe across Lake Whatcom, and think commercial intercourse has something to do with, well you know the type unsustainable, like that School Trust Land, their stealing from the Kindergarden Class today?
Intellegence in the 4th Corner…where may sat in primary school, free dunce cap included!
“What do people mean by strict construction?
…The word used in the Constitution, then, comprehends, and has been always understood to comprehend, navigation within its meaning; and a power to regulate navigation is as expressly granted as if that term had been added to the word commerce. To what commerce does this power extend? The Constitution informs us to commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. It has, we believe, been universally admitted that these words comprehend every species of commercial intercourse between the United States and foreign nations. No sort of trade can be carried on between this country and any other to which this power does not extend. It has been truly said that commerce, as the word is used in the Constitution, is a unit, every part of which is indicated by the term. If this be the admitted meaning of the word in its application to foreign nations, it must carry the same meaning throughout the sentence and remain a unit, unless there be some plain intelligible cause which alters it…”
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=24&page=transcript
The Sierra Club, after falling in love, got a little divorce after TR explained these wackos, Muir, and Pinchot…
Muir’s three-night camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 could be considered the most significant camping trip in conservation history. He was able to persuade Roosevelt to return Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove to federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park. The trip would have a lasting impact on the president.
After locking up 3/3rd of Whatcom County, we need to lock up the other 1/3?
Every once in a while you guys (& gals) really blow me away and today happens to be one, what a political cartoon, don’t ya know!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!