Hearing on US-Asia coal port in Longview cancelled; company sought 80M tons/year capacity
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AP - Canadian Business
February 24, 2011
A hearing on the proposal set for Friday before a regulatory panel was cancelled following accusations that the port backers concealed plans for a much larger project along the Columbia River north of Portland, Ore.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Executives for a company seeking to build a major port to ship U.S. coal to Asia had internal discussions about a project that could handle 80 million tons of the fuel annually — about 15 times the volume that had been publicly stated, documents show.
