Thanks to all for keeping coal terminals away

Regarding the article, “Washington state denies sublease for coal export terminal”: Thank you to the many members of the Thin Green Line who have taken stands to protect our environment. Thanks to:

The Army Corps of Engineers for stopping the coal terminal near Bellingham and for denying the easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Thanks to Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber and Commissioners Mary Abrams and Peter Goldmark for stopping coal terminals on the Columbia River.

Thanks to the city councils of Hoquiam, Vancouver and Portland for banning new fossil fuel terminals.

Thanks to Gov. John Spellman for stopping an oil terminal in Port Angeles in 1982.

Now we ask Gov. Jay Inslee to stop the largest oil terminal in America. It would cause four loaded oil trains to travel for hundreds of miles through the Columbia Watershed … every day. We also ask the Army Corps to issue their EIS for the dock in Whatcom County ASAP.

Don Steinke

Vancouver