China Express Project

In 2013 there were 4 daily trainloads of coal, each with over 100 cars, being railed from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to the Pacific Northwest to be shipped to China. For every 500 miles a train travels it loses up to 0.6 tons of coal dust per car, polluting communities, ranches and agriculture.  A new shipping terminal was proposed at the Lummi Reservation near Bellingham, WA. The Lummi have lived and fished on this section of the Puget Sound for 3500 years. Their ancient burial ground was the proposed site to dump and store coal for shipment.  Freighters loading in the bay would have destroyed the Fraser River salmon run.  We created a visual voice working with the Lummi to raise awareness, stewardship and halt the building of the port.