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Coal port scheme lives in the shadows
2015-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: A thick blanket of smoke has obscured the proposition to loan $53 million in state money to a private company for access to an unbuilt port in Oakland -- coal smoke. The project had shown up on the Utah Permanent Community Impact Board's agenda last April simply as "Infrastructure -- Throughput Capacity." And when Utah's four largest coal-producing counties pushing the loan made their pitch at that meeting, they didn't even use the word "coal." Instead, the backers spent most of their time...
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