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Protest group planning to block BNSF Railway line
I’m glad to hear Peter Nix and his friends “like trains” but standing on the tracks is still a pretty dangerous way to be spending their time.
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I want to see them put their money where their mouths are. I challenge them to go home and disconnect any appliance that might be powered by electricity generated by a coal-fired power plant. Furthermore, they must get rid of any item made of steel that they may possess. Only then will the rest of us know their true dedication to their cause.
If one coal train stops, then BNSF should stop all following trains, including passenger trains. Then send the PR department to the dinosaur media and put the blame where it belongs, on the terrorist protesters. Show them what happens when the 1% decides to shut down due to protesters interfering with interstate commerce.
Environmentalism equals anti-capitalism. BNSF do the economy a favor and run over all of them!
Book’m for trespassing!!!
I am not sure what the protesters hope to accomplish. Last time I checked, and I wrote a magazine article on the subject, BNSF trains carry coal from the U.S. to Roberts Bank and go back empty. The coal, most of it coming from the Powder River Basin, is shipped to Asia for heating, so I am not sure why they’re protesting the export of Canandian coal to the U.S., unless it has to do with coal exports to the U.S. in the mid-West. Now if the Cherry Point coal terminal gets built that might change things, but that terminal is years away from being built, if ever.
Export coal to dveloping nations with looser air quality standards may be the future for higher sulfer and pacticulate coal resources once the new EPA clean air laws go into effect in the next few years. Yes it supports some pollution globally and may reinforce global competition for jobs and economic wealth, but it will also continue to prop up coal haulers balence sheets as we as a nation slightly dip our coal consumption.
Shame on protesting against sustaining our energy economies, even if it goes some towards global air pollution. They should be protesting against slow investment in alternative base load energy generation to replace coal, not just supplement it.
This is what liberls do. And liberalism is a mental disorder.
These trains bring coal from the Powder River Basin. There was a error on Trains side or the newspaper. No coal exports go south on BNSF here
Why would they want to block the export from Canada?
Perhaps this protest is more about free publicity from the media than exporting coal.
Let me at the throttle, “run 8” all the way baby!!
A bunch of morons!
Don’t blame the railroad for this. Blame the province, the port, the company selling the coal. Stupid.
It’s Wyoming and Montana coal. BC doesn’t get the GST and PST, to support their ‘needle exchanges’, from it.
Well it had to come. Clean green railroads and their 12 thousand ton coal trains. What a joke.
Yes we do need to blame the rr’s and their dual morality. The world is warming, and the outcome is totally unpredicatable. If I lived there I would also be lieing on the tracks. That is the only thing the idiots in the coal industry, and their rail supporters will understand.
Yes, feel free tond run over me in throttle position 8 Jared, we need a few martars. The transition away from coal is inevitable, and railroads better start preparing for that change.
Joe
Let then occupy the tracks with their corpses!!
The Enviro-Nazies are at it again. Trespassing is illegal and the protesters should be provided the comforts of the CrossBar Hotel courtesy the local law enforcement and the railroad’s own police.