Coal port scrubbed: 3 down, 3 to go [View all]

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Coal giant Kinder Morgan is abandoning its plans to export coal from a terminal at the Port of St. Helens on the Columbia River.

That brings the number of publicly proposed export terminals in the Northwest down to three — half the number under consideration a year ago.

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The Port Westward terminal was the third-largest terminal under consideration in the Northwest. That’s behind the Millenium Bulk Terminal in Longview, Wash. and the Gateway Pacific Terminal near Bellingham, Wash.

Those two terminals are still being considered, along with a third: the Morrow Pacific project. It calls for coal to be transported by train to the Port of Morrow near the Eastern Oregon town of Boardman on the Columbia River. From there the coal would be put on barges and floated to the Port of St. Helens and then transferred to ocean-going ships.

In the past nine months, coal companies and other investors have dropped plans to build coal export terminals on the south Oregon Coast near Coos Bay and near Hoquiam, Wash. at the Port of Grays Harbor




http://earthfix.kuow.org/energy/article/coal-company-drops-plans-for-export-terminal-on-co/