[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: "West Coast Military Installations Eyed for US Fuel Exports"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

West Coast Military Installations Eyed for US Fuel Exports 

Courthouse News
October 16, 2018


WASHINGTON (CN) – The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military installations or other federal properties to open the way for more U.S. fossil fuel exports to Asia, but environmentalists see the proposal as nothing more than a handout to the fossil fuel industry which ignores the costs of climate change.

Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke made the proposal public in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, noting that the department’s plan is only in its beginning stages.

According to the secretary, opening up military and naval bases, or other government owned properties to coal export could be a way for the U.S. to tap a lucrative energy export market for U.S allies like China, Japan and South Korea.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.courthousenews.com/west-coast-military-installations-eyed-for-us-fuel-exports/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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