The Corporate Doomsday Machine’s (aka the fossil fuel industry) latest scheme to plunder and ruin the earth for profit involves transforming the highways, waterways and railways of the Northwest into a transport corridor for coal.

King Coal’s domestic options are soon going to be limited after Obama and Lisa Jackson drop the big one on greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, with a possible loss in profits, Mr. Peabody’s coal company needs a new place to sell their dirty black rock. Currently, Asian markets are more than willing buyers of all things coal. Industry just needs an efficient way to get it there. Currently, the only west coast port exporting coal is Vancouver British Columbia. So King Coal wants more outlets for Powder River Basin coal.