A Seattle-based community of social? investors including Robin Everett (Sierra Club), Dr. Melissa?Weakland (Ballard Neighborhood Doctors), ?Jessie Dye (Earth Ministry), and Steve?Sundquist (Social Venture Partners), invites?the public?to join them?for a?forum on the dangers of coal?exports. Their aim is?to keep Peabody Coal and SSA Marine from shipping coal through Magnolia.
The forum takes place Wednesday, June 20th, from 7-9 pm at the Magnolia United Church of Christ, in Pilgrim Hall, 3555 W McGraw St.? Click here to RSVP or for more information.
What are the pros and cons of this isse?? I understand China produces an enormous amount of coal and has an enormous amount of pollution as a result of burning it.? Are we concerned that coal importers will have pollution?? Please illuminate us on this…
Agreed…I have no idea why I should care…seems a bit NIMBY of a concern…
You should care because the coal trains produce significant amounts of dust that coat everything in site.
Seems like covering it would stop the air pollution and I assume the resultant particulate pollution of waterways.? Same thing that would prevent cracked windshields from uncovered trucks with loads on the freeway.? Selling coal to Asia must mean China is holding onto all of theirs (?).? Anyway, its jobs here?so we?would seem to need to find a way to keep our environment clean at the same time, like we do to protect our waterways when we allow access to container ships.? Would be delightful to not use any coal or oil, nor fracking nor natural gas.? I don’t see that happening, so bottom line, no environmental laws in place to prevent coal dust blowoff?
Click on this link to their website to see why they think we would be interested in this topic http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Calendar?id=164861&view=Detail