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

Coal

Overview

Federal Coal Program Review, US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (236 pages) https://eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/2016861/200502862/20051861/250058044/CoalProgramReview_CmtSummaryRpt_Final_508.pdf

“Coal Exports From Ports on the West Coast of Canada and the United States” Global Energy Monitor, September 27, 2021 https://www.gem.wiki/Coal_exports_from_ports_on_the_west_coast_of_Canada_and_the_United_States

“Mapping the Thin Green Line” Eric de Place and Keiko Budech, Sightline Insitute, June 20, 2017 http://www.sightline.org/2017/06/20/mapping-the-thin-green-line/

“Resources/Exports: Energy Exports” Nate Boatright, Nicole Fernandez and Bianca Valles, Fossil Fuel Connections, 2015-16 http://www.fossilfuelconnections.org/asian-energy

“Coal Market Report, Risks to U.S. Coal Mining and Export Proposals” Greenpeace USA, 2015 https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Global/usa/planet3/PDFs/Coal%20Market%20Report%20Q1%202015.pdf

“Briefing Note: Struggling US Coal Companies Face Debt Hurdles, Complications from Reclamation and Pension Obligations, Pressure from Hedge Funds” Tom Sanzillo, Institute for Energy, Economics and Financial Analysis https://ieefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Briefing-Note-Pressure-from-Hedge-Funds.pdf

“Warning: Faulty Reporting of US Coal Reserves” Report, Clean Energy Action, October 2013 (76 pages)  https://cleanenergyaction.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/warning-faulty-reporting-us-coal-reserves.pdf

Actions

Video- “Coal Export Threatens the Northwest” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biuUw60jCwU

Maps

“Power Past Coal” proposed sites, rail routes, etc. http://www.powerpastcoal.org/resources/maps/