Questions over coal terminal story | Letter

Published 11:12 am Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Nice puff piece for the anti-coal terminal crowd’s demand for an EIS to include the San Juan Islands. Is it really about environmental impact, or is it about widely discounted climate change (see James Lovelock interview at msnbc.com)? Then why cite Climate Solutions of Olympia as a source, an organization committed to  “phasing out fossil fuels” and forcing everyone to use expensive, inconvenient alternatives (from their website)? Does anyone else see the irony of placing this article next to one extolling the potential for eight(!) jobs via EDC scholarships, when Gateway Pacific predicts 4,400 construction jobs, 1250 operating jobs, and $140,000,000 in local spending and taxes?  Just wondering.

Joe Davis

Orcas Island