Pendleton, Ore. — An energy company has scrapped plans to build a coal dock on the Columbia River in Eastern Oregon.
The East Oregonian reported that the proposed Coyote Island Terminal at the Port of Morrow in Boardman would have shipped 8 million tons of coal down the river each year for export to Asia. Ambre Energy North America, now called Lighthouse Resources, pitched the idea in 2011.
The Oregon Department of State Lands denied the project a necessary permit in 2014 because it could interfere with a long-standing tribal fishery.
