This article originally appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune. Read it in its entirety here. City leaders in Oakland, Calif., have formally yanked the plug on a marine port project that Utah’s coal country hoped would connect its mining output with Asian markets. In a correspondence exchange last month, the city notified project developer Phil Tagami it
This article originally appeared in the Deseret News. Read it in its entirety here. SALT LAKE CITY — Oakland city officials terminated a contract with a would-be developer of a deep-water export terminal that would ship Utah coal to Asian markets. The city last month said Phil Tagami’s company failed to meet construction deadlines for
A federal judge has struck down an Oakland coal-handling ban, a decision that helps clear the way for a terminal that could annually load up to 10 million tons of Utah coal onto vessels bound for Asia. The ruling, handed down Tuesday in a California court, rejected limits the city of Oakland had placed on
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