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   nwcitizen
   

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   SEATTLE — Hundreds of people marched at Golden Gardens Park Sunday for a rally against coal exports.

   Event organizers said the march, known as the “Walking Train Against Coal Trains,” was to spread awareness about local and national movements to stop fossil fuel exports, as well as learn about the danger of exporting fuels to the climate, waterways and local economy.

   Demonstrators told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News that they wanted to send a message to President Obama to stop proposed coal exports to China.

   “We are tired of being tied down to this dirty fossil fuel industry. It is time for a clean energy future and President Obama needs to step up now,” said a demonstrator.

   The march was also on the same day when thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., against the Keystone XL pipeline.

   The Army Corps of Engineers is now reviewing 124,000 comments they received regarding a proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point in Bellingham.

   Burlington Northern Santa Fe said only a few coal trains run on the tracks through Seattle each week.

   Officials with BNSF said up to nine loaded coal trains a day could pass through Seattle for Whatcom County and not all the empty trains would return the same way.

   A special guest speaker at the rally was Mayor Mike McGinn and he spoke about the environmental issues in regards to the coal exports.

   http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/hundreds-march-against-coal-trains/nWRYd/#

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   great idea
   

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   sorry I missed it!

   say nwcitizen, is that you on the crosscut blog comments under the same name?

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   I guess it takes some kind of genius to add 1 and 1, lol.

   We've got lots of time to protest everything, except stupid. I'd like stupid to protest stupid, and leave everything else alone.

   But, we love stupid, we vote stupid, we even play stupid.

   I'm officially, again, protesting against stupid, and crooks, but mostly stupid.

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   great idea
   

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   how does one protest himself?

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   Pokerguy
   

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   I wonder how many of those people drove their cars there

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   Mondoman
   

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   I think a stray Higgs boson must have caused a grammar warp, creating "the danger of exporting fuels ... to the local economy"!

   However, I do think that running zillions of trains through the middle of Seattle and the other towns north of here would hurt both the economy and environment of Seattle and the other cities.

   The scheme to barge coal down the Columbia instead, transferring it to ocean-going ships at a port northwest of Portland, makes a lot more sense energetically, environmentally, and in terms of quality of life.

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   onederfullone
   

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   "how does one protest himself?"

   lol...maybe you will let us know when you ask yourself one simple question.

   "Why the facebook aren't I standing in front of a train at Golden Gardens??"

   I'm betting you will be a hero, fwiw, but not a bit more stupid.

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   nwcitizen
   

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   Hi GI: Yes, I do occasionally post on crosscut.

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   michp
   

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   Yawn. 1000s went to a Starbucks.

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