Sabata yatha, Beijing idawona utsi wake woyipa ukukulira kwambiri kuposa kale, woyendetsedwa kwambiri ndi mpweya wochokera ku malo opangira magetsi a malasha kudutsa China. M'zaka zaposachedwa malasha ochokera ku migodi ya ku United States akhala akukolezera kwambiri zomerazi, zomwe zikuchititsa kuti dzikoli liwonongeke chifukwa choyaka moto. Chaka chino, gawo lalikulu lamakampani a malasha ku US likhala likukankhira kampeni yomwe ikufuna kuchulukitsa kuchuluka kwa malasha omwe timatumiza kunja.
Morrow County, Oregon, ndi thumba lobiriwira kwambiri la Pacific Northwest. Ili pafupi ndi mtsinje wa Columbia, womwe umadutsa ma hipsters ku Portland paulendo wopita kunyanja, nthawi zambiri amanyamula masukulu a nsomba za salimoni zomwe zakhala zothandiza kwambiri kwa anthu ammudzi. Koma Morrow County posachedwapa ikhoza kukhala maziko osinthira makampani a malasha aku US, ngati malo omwe akukonzekera kuti azinyamula malasha ambiri, atakololedwa ku Powder River Basin ku Montana ndi Wyoming, ndikunyamulidwa m'sitima zonyamula katundu zopita ku Asia. kuvomereza.
Pakali pano, opanga malamulo amderali, m'boma, ndi m'maboma akufotokoza mwatsatanetsatane zomwe zikuchitika ngati nkhondo yayikulu kwambiri yanyengo ya 2013.
The Port of Morrow, komwe malasha angasamutsidwe kuchokera ku masitima apamtunda kupita ku mabwato a mitsinje m'tauni yaing'ono ya Boardman, ndi amodzi mwa malo asanu omwe akufuna kutumiza malasha otumiza kunja omwe tsopano akuganiziridwa ku Oregon ndi Washington. Ngati atamangidwa, malowa amatha kuwirikiza kawiri kuchuluka kwa malasha omwe amatumizidwa kumayiko akunja, ambiri amapita kumisika yosakwanira ku China, India, South Korea, ndi mayiko ena aku Asia.
Ndilo chimphona chotsatira kumakampani a malasha aku US, omwe m'zaka zaposachedwa atembenukira kum'mawa pomwe kufunikira kwanyumba kukucheperachepera komanso malamulo a mpweya wabwino wanthawi ya Obama akupangitsa kuti zikhale zosatheka kumanga nyumba zatsopano zoyaka malasha kunyumba. Koma kuthekera kwa Big Coal kugulitsa katundu wake kutsidya kwa nyanja kukukulirakulira chifukwa cha malo otumizira kunja, ambiri omwe ali kugombe lakum'mawa kwa Atlantic, komwe kuli bwino kuti atumize ku Hamburg kuposa Hong Kong. Chifukwa chake, atero katswiri wamagetsi wa Brookings Institute a Charles Ebinger, kumanga malo atsopano aku West Coast kungakhale nkhani ya moyo kapena imfa ya malasha aku US.
"Pali malasha ambiri pamsika wapakhomo omwe sangathe kugwiritsidwa ntchito," akutero Ebinger. "Msika wa ku Asia ndi msika wa malasha womwe ukukula mofulumira kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi. Ngati tikufuna kupitiriza kugulitsa malasha kunja [mathero awa] ndi ofunika kwambiri ... ngakhale kuchuluka kwa malasha omwe tingatumize kunja kungapeze msika."
Koma monga momwe ma terminal alili ofunikira kumakampani a malasha, adalimbana ndi khoma lokaniza aliyense kuyambira akatswiri azachilengedwe mpaka ku Oregon. Senator Ron Wyden (D), yemwe walumbira kuti adzagwiritsa ntchito mpando wake pamutu wa Komiti ya Senate ya Mphamvu ndi Zachilengedwe kuti agwire malingaliro omaliza kuwerengera mozama zachilengedwe.
"Sindinawonepo kutsutsa kotereku kwamalingaliro monga momwe ndidawonera kutumiza malasha kunja," akutero Brett VandenHeuvel, wamkulu wa gulu lachilengedwe la Columbia Riverkeeper.
Mndandanda wa madandaulo a otsutsa, VandenHeuvel akuti, akuphatikiza kuwonongeka kwa chilengedwe chifukwa cha kuchuluka kwa migodi, kusokonekera kwa magalimoto chifukwa chakukula kwakukulu kwa njanji, poizoni wa mercury ku Columbia, kuipitsidwa kwa mpweya ndi madzi m'mayiko kumene malasha potsirizira pake amawotchedwa, ndi kusintha kwa nyengo padziko lonse chifukwa cha kutulutsidwa kwa carbon yambiri. Kampani yomwe ikukankhira pulojekiti ya Port of Morrow, Ambre Energy ya ku Australia, yayambanso moto posachedwa chifukwa cha malipoti ndi mitengo yotsika ya malasha amakumbidwa kuchokera ku malo aboma, potero amazemba malipiro achifumu ndi kubweza okhometsa msonkho mpaka madola mamiliyoni mazana angapo (kampaniyo amakana kuchita chilichonse choletsedwa)
Kafukufuku watsopano wa Greenpeace, wotulutsidwa lero, adayika ma terminal ngati pulojekiti yachisanu yonyansa kwambiri yomwe ikufunsidwa Padziko lonse lapansi, pansi pa kubowola mafuta ku Arctic koma pamwamba pa US kuphwanyidwa ndikubowola ku Gulf of Mexico, kupeza kuti kuchuluka kwa malasha komwe angathandizire, pofika 2020, kudzataya matani 460 miliyoni a carbon dioxide mumlengalenga chaka chilichonse. Izi zikufanana ndi zomwe EPA adapeza chaka chatha kuti Port of Morrow terminal angatero Zimayambitsa "zambiri" ziwopsezo paumoyo wa anthu amderali.
Palinso ma hoops ochepa oti mudumphirepo kuti ma terminals athyoke; koma ndi phindu lochuluka lomwe lili pachiwopsezo, iyi ndi imodzi nkhondo yanyengo uku ndikungoyamba kumene.
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