The launch will be attended by top Russian officials and oil industry chiefs in a political show aimed at showing Europe that global competition for Russian energy resources is set to rise further.

Lummi Nation Chairman Clifford Cultee, speaks at a protest against the proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point on the Gulf Road beach west of Ferndale, Friday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2012. The ...

THERE are many questions being raised about the benefits that new coal-export facilities would bring to the Pacific Northwest, and much of the focus has centered on the environmental impacts of the ...

Lummi Nation sent another clear message about a proposed coal terminal on Tuesday, Feb. 3: Under no terms will it accept Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, an area near the Lummi Reservation ...

People in Washington state have read a lot about coal in the last couple of years, both on the news and editorial pages of papers across the state. I have found that often the facts are lost in the ...

BELLINGHAM — Three summers ago the company that wants to build the largest coal export terminal in North America failed to obtain the environmental permits it needed before bulldozing more than four ...

After spending years trying and failing to win a global climate treaty, environmental activists have finally changed tactics. Instead of pouring all their efforts into passing doomed legislation, they ...

Our state is driven by exports. In fact, four out of 10 of us owe our livelihoods to international trade. And trade cannot happen without a healthy rail system – which we definitely have. Freight rail ...

Two years ago, the Pacific Northwest looked like a surefire shipping hub for fossil fuels. The price of crude oil in the U.S. had topped $100 a barrel. That made competing fossil fuels such as natural ...

Cruise Shipping Asia-Pacific interviews Melvin Vu of SATS-Creuers Cruise Services on trends in port development & management. What do you see as some of the current trends in terminal design and ...