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Looking for a Way Around Keystone XL, Canadian Oil Hits the Rails
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 31st, 2013
New York Times: Over the past two years, environmentalists have chained themselves to the White House fence and otherwise coalesced around stopping the Keystone XL pipeline as their top priority in the fight against global warming. But even if President Obama rejects the pipeline, it might not matter much. Oil companies are already building rail terminals to deliver oil from western Canada to the United States, and even to Asia. Since July, plans have been announced for three large loading terminals in western...
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Posted by Grist: John Upton on October 31st, 2013
Grist: Less than a week remains before what could be the most momentous council election in the Washington county`s hitherto humble electoral history.
About 125,000 registered voters will have a say Tuesday on whether a $700 million shipping terminal will be built near Bellingham in the northwest corner of Washington state. The Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point would load 48 million tons of coal dug up in Montana and Wyoming every year onto ships bound for Asia. The county council will decide...
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