Event Title
A Line in the Sand: Cherry Point, Power Past Coal and Community Resistance
Description
The same conditions that make Cherry Point the last, best site for a deep water port on the west coast also make it an immensely productive ecosystem, sustaining people for millennia. Cherry Point is squarely in the sights of coal companies desperate for new markets. Matt and Dana will discuss the economic roots of the problem and the probable impacts if Gateway Pacific Terminal goes forward, describe the growing resistance to NW coal export, and offer ways both to resist and to affirm a positive vision for the future.
About the Lecturers: Matt Krogh is the North Sound Bay Keeper with RE Sources for Sustainable Communities and Dana Lyons is a songwriter, performer and activist.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
16-1-2013 12:00 PM
End Date
16-1-2013 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Coal trade--Washington (State)--Cherry Point; Fossil fuels--Transportation--Washington (State)--Cherry Point; Marine terminals--Environmental aspects--Washington (State)--Whatcom County; Community activists--Washington (State)--Whatcom County.
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Cherry Point, Community resistance, Gateway Pacific Terminal
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
A Line in the Sand: Cherry Point, Power Past Coal and Community Resistance
Fairhaven College Auditorium
The same conditions that make Cherry Point the last, best site for a deep water port on the west coast also make it an immensely productive ecosystem, sustaining people for millennia. Cherry Point is squarely in the sights of coal companies desperate for new markets. Matt and Dana will discuss the economic roots of the problem and the probable impacts if Gateway Pacific Terminal goes forward, describe the growing resistance to NW coal export, and offer ways both to resist and to affirm a positive vision for the future.
About the Lecturers: Matt Krogh is the North Sound Bay Keeper with RE Sources for Sustainable Communities and Dana Lyons is a songwriter, performer and activist.
