Ambre Energy (coal king pin) plans to build its first ever west coast coal export facility at Longview Washington. If the coal company gets its permit they will ship millions of tons of coal to Asia every year. The beautiful and breathtaking mighty Columbia River will be polluted with coal dust. This is the time to stop king Coal from its continuation of mining and selling dirty coal to other countries to pollute the environment and air, we need to promote clean energy not promote dirty energy. Labor unions have joined in with environmentalists to protest Ambre energy an issue that these two groups can agree on. We don't want or need dirty coal for energy. If Ambre energy get their permit it will lead for dozens of other coal exporting terminals in the Northwest and will degrade the Northwest and Washingtonians and Oregonians way of life.

Ambre energy has already lied about the size of the terminal that they want, the actual terminal with the capacity to annually ship up to 60 million short tons of western U.S. coal, even as they told state and local government officials that they would build a facility one-twelfth that size. There is no honesty or shame with coal companies. With the loss of coal products in America King Coal needs foreign markets to sell its dirty coal where there is no pollution controls and where a fortune can be easily made.
U.S. coal exports to China and India are expected to increase to 86.5 million tons, up from 79.5 million tons in 2010,. Peabody, the No. 1 coal producer in the U.S., has said it will release plans for its own West Coast port by the end of spring. If people are successful in stopping Ambre's Longview terminal it would have a ripple effect across the Northwest and will help stop other dirty coal companies from making the beautiful Northwest their new environmental disaster.

Opposition to coal continues to grow across the country because of its devastating impact on people and animals and plant life's health and climate. Nationwide, smokestack pollution from coal-fired power plants kills more than 13,000 people every year according to the Clean Air Task Force, that is one person every forty minutes. Burning coal is also the nation's top source of air pollution and toxic mercury, and it is responsible for a third of the country's greenhouse gas emissions which is nearly 2 billion tons per year. Coal is also the largest single source of global warming pollution in America.
Please call your congressman and senators and demand that they speak out against coal terminals on the Columbia River. Just because the terminals are planned in Longview Washington does not mean you cannot fight against the coal companies, we Oregonians own half of the Columbia river and we have a right to make sure that our air, water and river is not polluted with dirty coal dust. Remember that the air shed around Longview Washington is already filled with pollution and the wind usually blows up river in our direction so we will be affected when the area becomes even more polluted if the coal terminals are constructed.