West Coal Terminal Denied, As Corps Sides With Lummi Tribe

摘要

A 34-page U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision has stopped movement on a proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point in northwestern Washington. The $700-million project, which would have created three ship berths and a new vessel-approach lane, with a wharf and trestle stretching over 122 acres of water in one of the West Coast's deepest natural ports, ran into opposition from environmental groups across western Washington and die Lummi Nation tribe. Gateway Pacific Terminal-proposed by Pacific International Terminals LLC, a joint venture between SSA Marine and Cloud Peak Energy-had support from govern- ment officials, tribes and businesses in Montana and Wyoming as a prospective shipping terminal to send coal from the mountain states to customers in Asia.