US West Coast coal export projects lose allure

摘要

Once seen as the solution to declining domesticrndemand, the allure of new West Coast coal exportrnterminals to access Asian coal consumers has lost itsrnshine for US producers. Washington state’srnDepartment of Ecology announced October 15 thatrnthe draft Environmental Impact Statement for thernproposed $680 million coal export terminal project inrnLongview, Washington, originally slated for release inrnNovember, would not be completed until anrnunspecified time in 2016.