http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/runaway-train/Content?oid=14332617 Comments On: Runaway Train by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Coal has been the number one source of energy in the states for quite some time and it seems that since it is DECLINING in popularity that a resourceful company would look for someone else to buy their product..hello China.
Since the production is waning and small mining towns suffer job loss and cannot immediately harness some other PRIMARY energy resource, why do Seattle-ites need to bitch about traffic? Any person who drives in downtown Seattle does not have immediate rights over any other form of transportation, or their right to travel.You want to know how to fix traffic? Stop driving. Coal employs hard working people, who care both about their environment and health. ANYONE who has ever been to Wyoming knows, they care about their land. Coal dust from cars is NOT a REAL issue. How long has coal been transported and how many cases of disease/death/infection has it contributed to? Coal came out of the earth, and won't harm anybody..until it is burned. Powder River Basin coal is the 'safest/cleanest burning' in the world. I put quotes because we all know its just less harmful. Isn't there a company around here launching BIGGER airplanes expelling LARGE amounts of emissions high in the atmosphere? DAILY?!
Coal needs to be replaced, but it takes time and common sense. Let them pass for 20-30 years and watch a dying industry maintain as much as it can rather than regulating an entire state's industry to death.
Posted by whytheharumph?]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:05:20 -0800 The Stranger
But on the larger issue at hand: China's thirst for energy, our gigantic trade deficit with them, and the lowering cost of natural gas domestically virtually gurantees this coal getting to the far east in one way or another. While we know of the environmental travesty Coal power causes, we often forget that we are some of the lucky few who have the luxury of a choice in the matter. China is far from fully developed, and until they have a populous with the capital, and therefore the choice, to demand cleaner and less harmful forms of energy, that country will be burning coal, and anything else that's cheap to provide power. We did the same awful thing-- to attempt to deny them of doing it would provoke accusations of provincial hypocrisy.
Posted by jazumwalt]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:18:42 -0700 The Stranger Posted by trainman4988]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:56:45 -0700 The Stranger Posted by no_more_coal]]> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:30:20 -0700 The Stranger
I have a job I quite enjoy, and think that this scheme is a travesty, thank you very much.

2 hours of additional train-created traffic delays is gonna fuck with a lot more jobs in Seattle than this boondoggle is ever gonna create in Bellingham, which is why the poster has it wrong @46 (at least from a Seattleite's perspective) as to why this "should" happen.

No, it shouldn't.


Posted by Mr. X]]> Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:22:00 -0700 The Stranger Posted by markdorje]]> Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:42:29 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Woodrow Wilson Smith]]> Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:16:27 -0700 The Stranger Posted by KeepSeattleMoving]]> Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:41:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by just the facts man]]> Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:19:52 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Homeworld 1]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:10:59 -0700 The Stranger
Sorry to sound so gloomy.

Posted by hellinafiresuit]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:01:12 -0700 The Stranger
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12:00 to 3:00 at the St Johns RR Cut on N Lombard and Gilbert.
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Posted by Bonnie Meltzer]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:13:50 -0700 The Stranger
Seattle people can be so pissy. And I'll bet these are the same people on the street corner, demanding jobs...

The only really problematic thing here, besides SODO residents having to wait at stop lights (oh the horror), is the issue of China burning that much more coal. But you know what? China doesn't give a fuck. China's going to get the coal, one way or the other.

Posted by nuh_uh]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:12:37 -0700 The Stranger Robin Everett
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www.coalfreewashington.org
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I urge anyone who has doubts about what sifts off of those coal cars to watch the video at coalfreewashington.com
Posted by leftist]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:56:07 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:05:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:23:11 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Homeworld 1]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:28:49 -0700 The Stranger Posted by karenand]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:14:05 -0700 The Stranger Posted by PCM]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:14:16 -0700 The Stranger
Does the Seattle City Council have no say about the permit for the additional coal train traffic?
Posted by Bellingham Native]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:27:55 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Bellingham Native]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:20:06 -0700 The Stranger
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a…

But to be fair, I lived not too far from where the coal trains passed through Denver as well and I never smelled it or found coal dust around my home.
Posted by devinderry]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:45:08 -0700 The Stranger
I was just up on the Lummi Reservation last weekend, and there are "no coal train" signs all over the place.
Posted by lummi veto]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:30:05 -0700 The Stranger
So I think that the dust argument is bogus, and I'm surprised it hasn't been defended as such. That being said, I don't want this train running through Seattle and ask - if there is an export terminal being built in Longview, ummm hello? Why don't we send Cherry Point's exports out of Longview? It is on the way. Or would that just be too easy?
Posted by sperifera]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:48:59 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:37:36 -0700 The Stranger