Posted on April 5, 2016
The sponsor of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal for coal shipments to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review while it awaits a federal ruling on whether the exporting would interfere with Lummi Nation fishing rights.
SSA Marine, which retains a 51 percent ownership of the project, said Friday, April 1, it was halting the required environmental review until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers makes a decision on the treaty rights of the Lummi Tribe. In January 2015 the tribe asked the Corps to deny permits for the Cherry Point-area project because it would interfere with the tribe’s fishing grounds.
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