Coal Export Threatens the Northwest

Compelling three-minute video highlights plans to export dirty U.S. coal to Asia. Local voices from Longview, Bellingham, Hood River, and Portland share how coal trains and terminals will harm their communities. The video captures the filth of coal and the shine of those who know we can do better.

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[Brad Clure]

Per TRAIN CAR per mile. Not per ton. Jobs doing what? It's almost all automated. If you are referring to the jobs in healthcare trying to overcome the diseases and distress of this unmitigated disaster to our Quality of Life - You're right! Go ahead - Get CANCER! IT's GOOD for the GNP! Jeez.

[UsernamesSuckful]

smear campaign

[d cook]

Sounds like a plan. It seems with most situations, somewhere between the extreme views at either end is a good, balanced solution.

[Kintercept]

LOL.... I know there is no such thing as free healthcare. We will all be paying for it. In fact we are already. It was nice 'talking' to you but I think we will have to agree to disagree.

[d cook]

Yes,it is an excellent idea to stop these terminals.

[d cook]

As a RN, myself and all the other nurses and doctors that think these terminals are a bad idea could have increased job security from the illness that could be caused. While were at it,fast food restaurants could supply our kid's school lunches, that would make many jobs. We could get everybody on statins and beta blockers, sell lots of insulin, inhalers for asthma, the casket and funeral industries would go through the roof. I believe there are better ways. BTW, no such thing as free healthcare

[d cook]

Voice your opinion all you want. Personally I like to hear everyone's views, I hope to learn what I can. Maybe if it was you or your loved ones that were sickened, you would not take it so lightly. When people say things like "it only effects people at the mines", "the landscape is left unchanged", obviously they have not looked into the details much. I try to base my views on available science, and I place people over profits, and think about more than here and now

[d cook]

Please do read the study summary, I believe it is accurate, but even if they are off by 200% it is still serious. I do not wish for anyone to be jobless, but when an activity brings harm to others, it is not justified. The land is not left unchanged, not by a stretch. Do you actually believe that? The billions in tax subsidies that currently go to the industry could be used to create other jobs. The wind industry already employs as many as the coal, without physically harming anyone.

[Kintercept]

Personally the working class has taken such a huge hit during this depression I think we should expand, on a state level, the presidents plan to eat the rich. Instead of punishing those greedy bastards that make 250,000 or more we should punish anyone making more than 80,000 a year. Then we can do away with all kinds of harmful jobs.

[Kintercept]

I agree with you that the majority of the people of Washington State do not want coal terminals. This does not mean that I do not have a right to express my opinion on the matter. If your opinion on a particular matter was the opposite of popular opinion would that in anyway diminish your opinion? Our more importantly your right to voice that opinion?

[Kintercept]

What am I going to do about the trillions upon trillions of people that are sickened by coal as it is used today? Nothing, starting in 2014 we will all have free healthcare by Uncle Ob.... er Sam. So we have taken care of that problem. Next.

[Kintercept]

300 Billion every year in health costs... I find that very hard to believe. In fact I would ask to see the actual study and what parameters were established to control the study in the first place. In Colorado they actually pay people to re-plant sage brush and other indigenous plants after they move on leaving no change to the land scape. It is not simply the "few dozen people who wouldn't get a job at the terminal" but the jobs at the mines themselves.