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Roundup of items in the wake of Gateway Pacific’s big news day

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Wednesday, July 31 was a big day on the Gateway Pacific Terminal beat: A sweeping scope of environmental study, the possibility that Lummi Nation opposition could derail the process, and a big cash settlement of a lawsuit filed by RE Sources … you get the picture.

The result was that some interesting comments and reactions ended up on the cutting room floor. Here are links to some of them:

Eric de Place, policy director at Sightline Institute in Seattle, posted an analysis of the impact of Wednesday’s developments on the U.S. coal industy, which has pinned hopes for growth on export terminals like Gateway Pacific, as U.S. coal use declines. Clark Williams-Derry co-authored.

The Alliance for Northwest Jobs and Exports–a coalition of business and labor groups supporting Gateway Pacific–provided a list of comments from state and national business associations, warning that the sweeping environmental review ordered by the Washington Department of Ecology would have a chilling effect on industrial development in the Evergreen State.

Bellingham Mayor Kelli Linville issued a statement expressing satisfaction with Ecology’s decisions.

RE Sources for Sustainable Communities offers a lengthy blog post blasting SSA Marine’s conduct in the 2011 land-clearing that led to the lawsuit.

Repeating from early yesterday for your convenience, here is SSA’s take on the lawsuit settlement. 

The Power Past Coal campaign, a coalition of environmental groups fighting coal exports here and elsewhere, issued this press release hailing regulators’ decision to order broad environmental review for Gateway Pacific.

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