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Posted Fri, Nov 18, 10:52 a.m.
The railway that dominates the rail corridor is BNSF, now wholly owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway company. Last year in 2010 BNSF earned a net income of $2.5 billion. By relocating freight rail traffic to a separate corridor away from the landslide prone shoreline from Seattle to Vancouver one ...
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 18, 10:34 a.m.
Sorry for the mind intrusion one more time but just saw this fact. BNSF (wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway-Warren Buffet) earned a net income of $2.5 billion in 2010. Why is WSDOT subsidizing BNSF? The shoreline along Puget Sound has had significant landslides over the last 100 years. The last ...
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 18, 10:27 a.m.
Having worked at both major coal terminals in BC I can say that attempts to reduce or eliminate coal dust and debris from the atmosphere and ocean have not been totally effective and given the nature of coal handling at ports it never will be unless a complete closed system ...
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 18, 10:17 a.m.
Regarding the last two "economic impact studies" paid for by SSA. Adding the crews from the freighter traffic is really juicing the numbers. I am wondering if the "economists" calculated in "opportunity cost". Opportunity cost is defined as the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of ...
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