The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Portland division said it will only conduct an environmental assessment of Ambre Energy’s Morrow Pacific coal export terminal proposed near Boardman and not the more exhaustive environmental impact statement.
The news is something of a victory for the Australian coal company. The EIS process threatened to add years to a $250 million project that hopes to be handling coal shipments by mid-2014, if not sooner.
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