“The coal terminals will turn the beautiful northwest coast line into an industrial wasteland.”
How would they do that?
Have you ever seen a coal terminal? Have you ever taken a look at the areas along a coal train route? I am not talking about a few trains per day. I am talking about trains running all day long. Dirty, noisy, and congestion causing.
WA coasts are not all urban areas. Much of the coast line is high end residential, and park land. The trains in my county would cut off public access to the parks and decrease access to the water front. This would kill off the salmon fishing and threaten the whale population as well as potentially polluting the water with foreign invasive species of bacteria, plants and shell fish from the ballast water.
I could go on and on but you can get informed by watching the film that was put out by the WA public TV channel, “Coal at the Crossroads”.
http://capitolrecord.tvw.org/coal-crossroads/#.UHxgMo6Je-Q