Activists plan to ramp up coal-terminal battle

“Come January, we’ll start to focus pressure on the province,” Kevin Washbrook, a spokesman for the group Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, said in a recent e-mail.

“They [the provincial government] have so far been silent on this, even though they have complete power to spike the Texada end of this proposal by refusing a permit to expand the coal-handling facilities there. The port [Port Metro Vancouver] has no say in that decision. No Texada terminal, no barging coal from Surrey, and the project is dead.”