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		<title>WA Public Land Commissioner Denies Sublease for Milennium Coal Terminal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The outgoing Washington State Public Lands Commissioner today announced his decision to deny Millennium Bulk Terminals’ sublease of state-owned land in Longview. Millennium Coal’s plan was to sublease the land from Northwest Alloys to build a controversial coal terminal in Longview. Commissioner Goldmark explained &#8220;The message of today is I’m taking steps to protect state-owned aquatic lands.  That’s part of my responsibility as commissioner of public lands.&#8221; From the Oregonian: The company was looking to build a terminal with the capacity to export 44 million tons of coal annually to buyers in Asia. That would have involved bringing some 16 coal trains a day down the Columbia River Gorge from Wyoming and Montana. Tribes, community members along the route, and conservationists weighed in by the thousands against the project, which was first proposed in 2010. But it also attracted some support from organized labor. The decision continues a winning streak for opponents of fossil fuel export terminals in the Northwest. Federal, state and local authorities have rejected more than a dozen proposals in Oregon and Washington to export coal, oil, natural gas and propane. There are still three proposals pending on the Columbia, including an oil export terminal in Vancouver and two methanol export terminals at the Port of Kalama and Port Westward near Clatskanie. &#8220;This is a huge victory for tribes and communities that have fighting this proposal for years,&#8221; said Lauren Goldberg, an attorney for the conservation group Columbia Riverkeeper. &#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting way to start the new year.&#8221; Millennium Bulk Terminals could not be reached for comment. There is no administrative process to appeal the decision, Goldberg said, though the company could sue the state. Read the full Oregonian article here: Washington to reject coal export terminal near Longview]]></description>
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		<title>Power Past Coal Rally, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Power Past Coal Rally began at noon on a bright, sunny, spring day with a chant from various members of the Riverkeeper Alliance: "Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie!"

Power Past Coal Rally At Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square 5-7-12
    Power Past Coal Rally At Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square 5-7-12

Columbia Riverkeeper, Sierra Club, Climate Solutions and Greenpeace sponsored the Power Past Coal event with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Environmental Attorney and Chairman of the Waterkeeper Alliance, as the featured speaker. Kennedy, who has been working against coal for more than 30 years, has been dubbed "Hero of the Planet" by Time Magazine.

Facing the slowing of U.S. coal fired power plants, coal companies like Massey and Arch Coal are looking to harvest and ship 150 million tons of coal per year, sending 30 -50 trains per day through the Columbia River Gorge via Portland and Vancouver Neighborhoods, where it is intended to be shipped to China. Each car from a coal train can unleash 500 pounds of coal dust. The coal trains proposed to run through Portland and Vancouver will be 75 miles long each day making the Pacific Northwest the largest coal chute in the nation, originating in Montana's Powder Ridge Basin.

Toxins emanating from the transport and burning of coal include mercury, arsenic, lead, sulphur dioxide, and ozone among 50 known contaminants. Health impacts, especially for young children, include mental retardation, impacts to speech and gait, lung and liver damage, autism and blindness. Estimates show that 300,000 to 600,000 children are exposed to high levels of mercury each year stemming from the coal industry. Coal emissions also exacerbate asthma, emphysema, can cause cancer, and contaminate rivers and fish, and can also reduce rainfall and snow pack caused by climate change. Just last week, Portland General Electric opposed the placement of a coal terminal near its power plant because dirty coal would hamper plant operations, and Oregon's Governor Kitzhaber requested a regional Environmental Impact Study to identify public health and environmental impacts expected from seven proposed coal terminals in Oregon and Washington State. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemere Neighborhood Association&#8217;s Clean Water Act settlement victory leads to changes at Millennium coal terminal in Longview, $50,000 in mitigation payments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosemere Neighborhood Association and Longview based Land Owners and Citizens for a Safe Community have prevailed in their efforts to bring substantial pollution reduction changes to the Millennium Bulk Logistics coal terminal in Longview. The settlement was finalized just days before the community groups planned to file a federal Clean Water Act suit in federal district court against Millennium and their Australian parent company Ambre Energy. Millennium claimed to be operating under a permit first issued to Reynolds Aluminum over 20 years ago. The agreement creates substantial new limits on the operation of the facility and requires Millennium to obtain a new pollution permit that will update the outdated pollution limits which are now two decades old. A summary of key points from the settlement is below. The entire settlement document can be found here: FINAL Settlement Agreement RNA &#38; LCSC vs MBTL Clean Water Act settlement summary: Under the agreement with Rosemere Neighborhood Association &#38; Landowners and Citizens for a Safe Community, until Millennium Bulk Terminals/Longview receives a new Clean Water Act discharge permit from Ecology, Millennium must: Remove coal and pet coke piles: Millennium will have to remove the massive outdoor coal and petroleum coke piles that have dominated the site in recent years. Millennium will also be prohibited from any outdoor storage of coal. Millennium has already moved much if not all of the coal pile inside the old aluminum plant buildings and plans to remove the pet coke piles within six months. No new customers: Millennium is prohibited from providing coal to any new customers and thus the terminal is limited to providing coal to Weyerhauser. New pollution reduction measures: The agreement requires Millennium to implement a capital project to cover over its coal conveyors used to move coal around the site to prevent rainfall from contacting the<a class="more-link" href="http://www.rosemerena.org/home/2011/10/06/rna-clean-water-act-settlement-victory-leads-to-changes-at-millennium-coal-terminal-in-longview-50000-in-mitigation-payments/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>MEDIA RELEASE: Community Groups Give Notice of Clean Water Act Suit to Planned Coal Export Terminal on Columbia River</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDIA RELEASE &#8211;FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 9, 2011 CONTACTS: Gayle Kiser, LCSC (360) 749-7029 Dvija Bertish, Rosemere (360) 281-4747 Longview, WA &#8211; Community groups from Longview and Vancouver Washington have filed formal notices of suit for violations of the federal Clean Water Act against the corporation planning to export coal from Longview to China. The sixty-day notice of suit is a legal prerequisite to filing the Clean Water Act suit that will be filed in the Federal District court in Tacoma sixty days from today. The suit targets the fact that Millennium Bulk Terminals and its parent company Ambre Energy are currently importing, storing and exporting coal to their Longview facility absent any permits that allow for such activities under the Clean Water Act. For complete Press Release please click here: MEDIA RELEASE_8-9-2011 To view complete 60 Day Notice please click here: 8-9-11_FINAL_ 60_DAY_ Ambre_ Energy More about this story from The Daily News Online:  Groups sue Millennium over alleged Clean Water Act violations in Longview]]></description>
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