Last month a ship knocked out a pier at the Westshore Terminals, North America's largest coal port, spilling coal into the Fraser delta. (Click on images to enlarge.)
Crosscut sent Matt Fikse-Verkerk to Olympia last night to gauge the party - and the mood in the State Capitol as Jay Inslee and company celebrated his swearing in.
The Cape Violet, a Capesize coal bulker built in 2009 and operating under Panamanian flag, recently stopped at Westshore Terminal south of Vancouver, B.C.
Mayor Mike McGinn, flanked by standing city council members (l to r) Jean Godden, Richard Conlin and Mike O'Brien, tells officials at a meeting on coal ports that he supports an area-wide study of the...