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SUMMARY:Everson Community Conversation on Coal Trains on Whatcom Farml
 ands
DESCRIPTION:These forums, featured at several rural Whatcom County gra
 nges, community halls, and schools during March and April, will focus 
 on various risks to the communities along the alternate “Farmland-C
 oal Port Route” and will provide information on how residents can pa
 rticipate in the Environmental Impact Statement scoping process antici
 pated in June 2012.\nDoors at 6:45 with panel and discussion from 7-9:
 00 pm :\nMarch 8, Glen Echo Community Hall, 7694 Goodwin Rd, Everson, 
 WA March 22, Haynie Grange, 3344 Haynie Rd, Custer, WA April 4, Ten Mi
 le Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd, Lynden, WA April 19, Acme Elementary Scho
 ol, 5200 Turkington Rd, Acme, WA\nThis tour is organized by Safeguard 
 the South Fork–a grass roots organization whose mission is public ed
 ucation for agricultural and environmental integrity in the Nooksack R
 iver watershed. SGSF is gathering input on the impacts of rail expansi
 on through our county farmlands on public costs, including health, wat
 er, air quality, and effects on existing natural resource industries, 
 such as agricultural crops and dairies.\nSGSF brings together presente
 rs from Whatcom Docs, SGSF, RESources, and Protect Whatcom, including 
 physicians Dr. Jan Peter Dank and Dr. Frank James along with a team of
  regional analysts including Dr. Nicole Brown Tate who will discuss th
 e impacts and options.\nThe “Farmland–Coal Port Route” is a cont
 ingency that has until recently escaped scrutiny. Despite Burlington 
 Northern Santa Fe’s insistence to the contrary, SGSF analysts will 
 outline the collaborative history involving regional planners, busines
 s and political elites who have been laying the groundwork for a count
 ywide rail route and commerce corridor to the Gateway Pacific Coal Ter
 minal.”\nWith the advent of a major political effort by Bellingham a
 ctivists and the prospect of BNSF’s ballooning coal and freight traf
 fic backing up on the single track south of Edgemore, the probability 
 of a “coal chain” being rerouted from Mt. Vernon, looped from one 
 side of Whatcom County to the other, is increasingly likely. SGSF’s 
 “Community Conversation on Coal Trains Running Through Whatcom Farml
 ands” will provide county residents with information to reflect upon
 . For additional information, please visit: safeguardthesouthfork.org
  or contact at info@safeguardthesouthfork.org\n\nFor more informatio
 n visit https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/everson-community-co
 nversation-on-coal-trains-on-whatcom
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CATEGORIES:community, forum
LOCATION:Glen Echo Community Hall
WEBSITE:http://safeguardthesouthfork.org
URL:http://safeguardthesouthfork.org
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER:Safeguard the South Fork
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