1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgClark Williams-Derryhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/clark-williams-derry/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="56GZSJvMiO"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2012/09/19/fish-vs-coal/">Fish vs. Coal</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2012/09/19/fish-vs-coal/embed/#?secret=56GZSJvMiO" width="600" height="338" title="“Fish vs. Coal” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="56GZSJvMiO" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/salmon-flickr-re-Verse.jpg500367The Army Corps of Engineers has some explaining to do. They've just announced that, at least for the time being, Ambre Energy's proposed coal export terminal on the Columbia River only needs to do an environmental assessment, rather than a full environmental impact statement. Which means, as Scott Learn from The Oregonian writes, that Ambre's project "is staying on the fast track." It's hard not to think that the Corps is caving to pressure from the coal industry here. Let's leave aside, if you will, the potential risks to human health---such as coal's well-known problem with spontaneous combustion, or the many impacts on rail-side communities from coal dust. Ambre's own consultants, in a biological assessment prepared earlier this year for the company, admitted that the Morrow Pacific coal export project will have signficant impacts on threatened and endangered fish populations and their habitat. Here are some choice quotes from the coal industry's own report: