1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgEric de Placehttps://www.sightline.org/profile/eric-de-place/Coal Exports From Canada - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="4y9Rnn4iz6"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2011/08/04/coal-exports-from-canada/">Coal Exports From Canada</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2011/08/04/coal-exports-from-canada/embed/#?secret=4y9Rnn4iz6" width="600" height="338" title="“Coal Exports From Canada” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="4y9Rnn4iz6" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Sightline is publishing a new research memo today that documents the facts about Canada's coal exporting capacity. The memo finds that ports in British Columbia do not have sufficient capacity to handle the volumes of coal planned for Washington ports. The state coal lobby claims that US coal exports will simply shift to BC if Washington doesn't build its own export facilities. Yet the numbers tell a different story. The truth is that even if BC's coal ports were to devote all of their planned capacity expansions to shipping solely US coal, they could still handle only a small fraction of the coal planned for Cherry Point and Longview.