As part of the Sightline's study on coal exports, check out this updated research memo about Canada's coal export capacity. They find ports in British Columbia can't handle the volumes of coal planned to be exported from Washington ports. If you look at this chart, it's not even close.

This helps defeat the argument that coal exports in the US will shift to British Columbia if Washington decides to build export facilities.

From Sightline: If Canadian ports actually did have available capacity for American coal, US coal interests would already be using it. But, in fact, coal terminal space in BC is tightly limited, and very little US coal is leaving by way of Canada. So now US coal companies are betting on big new export terminals in the Northwest states—projects that are expensive, time-consuming, and highly uncertain.

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