The Thin Green Line Is People:
Documenting Pacific Northwest Fossil Fuel Resistance

Coal
SSA Marine, Gateway Pacific Terminal, Cherry Point/Ferndale, WA
Status: Defeated!
Sightline Institute Articles and Reports on the Cherry Point Terminal
Documents on Record
2017
- “Developers withdraw coal terminal applications, ending project,” Dave Gallagher, http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/artcle131783149.html
2013
- January 17, “City of Bellingham’s Second Set of Scoping Comments” on the Gateway Pacific Terminal (20 pages) https://www.cob.org/documents/mayor/2013-01-17-second-scoping-letter.pdf
2012
- Western Washington University Huxley College of the Environment “Cherry Point coal trains environmental impact assessment”
- December 13 Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Hearing, Seattle, hearing room 1 (video) https://vimeo.com/55971958
- December 13 EIS Scoping Hearing, Seattle, hearing room 2 (video) https://vimeo.com/55971959
- November 29 EIS Scoping Hearing, Ferndale, WA, video https://vimeo.com/55305714
- October 27 EIS Scoping Hearing, Bellingham, video https://vimeo.com/55305713
Context/Media:
- “Environmental Review Process,” Gateway Pacific Terminal and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Custer Spur Proposal,” Presentation, March 20, 2012, Whatcom County Planning and Development Services and Washington State Department of Ecology, with support from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Assistance https://www.whatcomcounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/2783
- “Gateway Pacific Terminal,” Sourcewatch.org https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gateway_Pacific_Terminal
- “Gateway Pacific Terminal: “History, Scoping, and a Discussion of Implications,” Terry Wechsler, (Whatcom Watch Online) http://www.whatcomwatch.org/php/WW_open.php?id=1489
- Timeline: Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point (Bellingham Herald)http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article76550807.html