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Stop Coal Export Off the West Coast!

Coal export threatens the health, public safety and economic vitality of our communities.

Coal is a dirty and dangerous combustible fuel that coal companies would put in open rail cars to travel through our communities and on massive cargo ships through our commerce corridors, fishing grounds and recreation areas. Coal exports would increase strip-mining and worsen the climate crisis.

Add your voice to the thousands of others saying "NO" to coal export. We can do better.

Subject: Docket number COE-2012-0016: Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export proposal EIS scoping comment

Your Letter:

Dear Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Ecology and Whatcom County Council:

I strongly oppose the construction of a coal export terminal at Cherry Point, Washington and transporting strip-mined coal from Montana and Wyoming on trains and ships throughout the Northwest. This proposal would negatively affect my community by increasing  congestion and noise with more coal train traffic, polluting our air and local waterways, harming existing businesses, delaying emergency responders, damaging aquatic ecosystems and fishing grounds at the terminal site, increasing tanker traffic and the potential for serious shipping accidents and escalating climate change. I urge you to consider these impacts in the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement.

There are currently five coal export proposals that would transport as much as 150 million tons through the Northwest.  I urge the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an area wide Environmental Impact Statement to assess the cumulative impact of these proposals.

Thank you.

Mr. Randel Perry

US Army Corps of Engineers; GPT/Custer Spur EIS Co-Lead Agencies