Company to look at other sites in the Pacific Northwest
from the Vancouver Observer
"A decision by Kinder Morgan to abandon plans to build a coal export facility in Oregon could have repercussions for British Columbia.
"The company says it is 'still looking at options in the Pacific Northwest' after blaming poor logistics as the reason for dropping plans to build a $200 million coal export terminal on the Columbia River in northern Oregon.
"The facility would have handled just over 30 million tonnes of coal annually, most of it destined for overseas markets. Kinder Morgan spokesman Allen Fore told the Los Angeles Times 'we concluded our analysis and determined that we could not find a location on that particular footprint that would be compatible with the facility that we needed to construct.' …"
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