1. Coal export - Northwest crossroads
CAP

2. Northwest economy snapshot
Airplanes
Online retailing
Software, chips
Jo (life itself)
….“The Northwest's newest export: global warming”? (Oregonian)

3. 4600 average megawatts
$ 2 Billion+ annual savings

4. “Coal is a dead man walking”
- Kevin Parker, Deutsche Bank
“Coal’s best days are ahead”
- Peabody Energy

6. 1.5 miles long
18-20 per day (…for one of 6 proposed terminals)

7. Local economic tradeoffs
Port communities: construction and coal-handling jobs v. impacts, opportunity costs
Bellingham Waterfront Redevelopment “Why would we risk 10,000 jobs for a few hundred?”
- Bellingham, WA Mayor Dan Pike
Rail communities: major impacts: congestion, noise, pollution, health effects
“If coal trains are allowed to dominate our community, they could…crush the success of our developing downtown.”
- Mosier, OR Mayor Andrea Rogers

8. Regional brand, identity
Cowlitz Economic Development Council Strategic Plan – “The Turning Point”
Vision:  Cowlitz County will transition from a natural resource dependent economy, embrace higher value projects, and raise its profile within a broader regional market.

9. Economic ships crossing?
So here is our choice. It’s a choice about economic strategy, and ultimately a choice about who we are.
Will we stand on the banks of the Columbia River and watch ships leaving America with coal bound for Asia, passing ships from around the world carrying wind turbines and solar panels and flat screen TVs?
In the Pacific Northwest, we have already staked out an economic strategy that capitalizes on our competitive advantages in innovation, quality of life, and a long legacy of leadership in clean energy.
Coal export would be dramatic reversal of that strategy.
Marketing fossil fuel dependence and accelerating the climate crisis is not our niche, it’s not our “value-add”, it’s not who we are. We can do better, and we plan to.