Tribes worry about coal export plan

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Tribes worry about coal export plan</h1>
                <h2><p>With environmental studies underway, discussions about the proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal have been somewhat quiet lately. But, as Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com reports, the Lummi Nation and others are taking their case against the giant facility's air and water impacts to the White House Tribal</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>With environmental studies underway, discussions about the proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal have been somewhat quiet lately. But, as Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/11/05/washington-tribal-leaders-in-the-other-washington-protest-proposed-coal-terminal-at-cherry-point/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">reports</a>, the Lummi Nation and others are taking their case against the giant facility's air and water impacts to the White House Tribal Nations Conference.</p><p>The president of the National Congress of American Indians is Brian Cladoosby, who also chairs the Swinomish Tribal Community, which opposes the project. Today, he said, "We can no longer allow industry and business to destroy our resources, water and land. No mitigation can pay for the magnitude of destruction to treaty resources for today and generations from now."</p><p>The Lummi Nation has said the plant would be built on the site of a 3,500-year-old village and would hurt fishing and the region's environment. Supporters say the project, which would supply coal to China's electric plants, would create badly needed jobs.</p>
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With environmental studies underway, discussions about the proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal have been somewhat quiet lately. But, as Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com reports, the Lummi Nation and others are taking their case against the giant facility's air and water impacts to the White House Tribal Nations Conference.

The president of the National Congress of American Indians is Brian Cladoosby, who also chairs the Swinomish Tribal Community, which opposes the project. Today, he said, "We can no longer allow industry and business to destroy our resources, water and land. No mitigation can pay for the magnitude of destruction to treaty resources for today and generations from now."

The Lummi Nation has said the plant would be built on the site of a 3,500-year-old village and would hurt fishing and the region's environment. Supporters say the project, which would supply coal to China's electric plants, would create badly needed jobs.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi