Local clean energy, not coal exporting, is key to Northwest prosperity
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By
Trevor Winnie, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), Pacific Northwest Chapter
Sustainable Business Oregon
April 27, 2011
The Northwest faces a choice: Become a facilitator of foreign nations' coal consumption at the expense of the local environment and public health; or instead, support a domestic clean energy industry that can create quality local jobs and enable sustainable growth worldwide.
So if not coal, then what?
The Northwest faces a choice: Become a facilitator of foreign nations' coal consumption at the expense of the local environment and public health; or instead, support a domestic clean energy industry that can create quality local jobs and enable sustainable growth worldwide.
