Guest blog: Singing out against coal export
Coal is a dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, and I don’t see any way that this is the answer to our future energy plans. With a greater understanding of health impacts and disturbance from the coal companies current plans, I really wanted other people to understand what’s happening here.
Kris Orlowski, musician, Power Past Coal activist
Being conscious of how I’m living and impacting my environment is important to me, as it affects the quality of my life and the lives of those to come. During the planning of my second annual fundraising concert to support Climate Solutions through Team Up for Nonprofits, I became aware of some coal companies plans to export coal through the Northwest and my hometown of Bellingham, and the trains that would travel through my current town of Seattle.
Coal is a dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, and I don’t see any way that this is the answer to our future energy plans. With a greater understanding of health impacts and disturbance from the coal companies current plans, I really wanted other people to understand what’s happening here.
I get pretty revved up when I see someone or something being taken advantage of, and the coal companies' plans to ship hundreds of millions of tons of coal through the Northwest (per year) to Asia could thwart any hope of stopping global warming. That’s a scary thought.
We need to Power Past Coal.
Watch and share this PSA that I helped put together to support Climate Solutions' efforts to block coal exports from West Coast ports:
-Kris Orlowski recently headlined at sold out Team Up for Nonprofits benefit concert for Climate Solutions at the Triple Door in Seattle.
