The public is invited to Sustainable Edmonds/Sierra Club’s ongoing planning meetings (first Wednesday of each month) opposing coal trains passing through Edmonds and other towns in the region. Join other concerned residents to plan important activities. The next meeting will be Wednesday, May 2, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Frances Anderson Center, Room, 206, 700 Main St. (east of the Edmonds Library).
For more information please email Richard: r_bisbee@msn.com.
This is a silly effort. They are dealing with a federally chartered common carrier railroad, and no small town with two grade crossings can determine what kind of trains can go through. No one in Edmonds seems to have realized yet that they don’t legally have any say whatsoever in this.
Actually Mr. Watt, a class action lawsuit brought before state and/or federal courts on behalf of all affected parties along the entire rail corridor that will be impacted due to the increased transport of coal by way of rail, and based on the potential for ‘Extreme Impacts’ with respect to public health, environmental impacts, and quality of life, is a poignant and appropriate reason to engage in these discussions and plan for a rebuttal. I am going to go out on a limb though and say you won’t be inhaling much of the coal dust, nor listening to the constant (i.e. 24/7) sounds of 100-car trains passing by, yes? Or perhaps you just don’t care if you are impacted…sorry not to join in your apathy or capitulation, but we do.
So to summarize for you, yes we do absolutely have a say in Edmonds, along with the 10,000’s of other potentially impacted peoples in communities ranging from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Eastern Washington, South along the Columbia, Western Washington, and all the way up to Cherry Point in Bellingham.