1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgEric de Placehttps://www.sightline.org/profile/eric-de-place/Coal Company Destroys Key Argument for Coal Terminal - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Xo6QRVmrXS"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2011/11/09/coal-company-destroys-key-argument-for-coal-terminal/">Coal Company Destroys Key Argument for Coal Terminal</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2011/11/09/coal-company-destroys-key-argument-for-coal-terminal/embed/#?secret=Xo6QRVmrXS" width="600" height="338" title="“Coal Company Destroys Key Argument for Coal Terminal” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="Xo6QRVmrXS" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ScreenHunter_01-Sep.-09-13.00.gif793525Cloud Peak Energy says they will ship 4 million tons of coal from British Columbia's Westshore Terminal this year. That means Cloud Peak is almost solely responsible for current US coal exports to Asia via BC. (See here and here for US Customs figures.) Yet in a new investor report, Cloud Peak says they can't increase coal shipments to Asia because there's no room at BC export terminals. This is precisely the opposite of what Washington coal terminal supporters claim. They say that if Washington doesn't build coal terminals, the coal will just go out from BC instead. In an August research memo, Coal Exports From Canada, I showed there is simply no room at BC's ports, not even if they undergo planned expansions. But terminal supporters just keep repeating the falsehood anyway. (See here, for example). Now, the coal industry itself is knocking down supporters' claims.