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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;">In reading about this, I would say that the primary opposition is against the sudden increase in coal train traffic needed to serve the proposed export facilities. Another layer of opposition in a larger context is the elimination of fossil fuel energy worldwide. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;">Here is a link expressing some of the sentiments:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;">From the link:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:xx-large;"><strong>“Full Speed Ahead for Coal Train Opposition"</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:large;">"The battle over exporting coal is a crossroads for the Pacific Northwest. Will the region stay its course toward clean energy, or become a global trafficking hub for the most dangerous fossil fuel?”</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/its-your-body/stiff-opposition-to-coal-in-the-pacific-northwest">http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/its-your-body/stiff-opposition-to-coal-in-the-pacific-northwest</a></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;">In recent threads on the diminishing coal traffic, many took solace in the belief that the export market would take up the slack as the domestic market was regulated out of existence. That hope raised the obvious question of whether the anti-coal opposition would be content to let coal mining continue if we sold it to China instead of burning it here. I think we now see the answer to that question. </span></p>
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