简介：This is the first of two reports on plans to export U.S. coal to China.

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West Coast
Richard Harris
Bellingham
Westshore Terminal
British Columbia
Denis Horgan
Wyoming
Montana
Here on the West Coast there's a battle shaping up over plans to build a giant new coal export terminal. That's a place where coal gets dropped off and then put on ships, in this case to China. Activists want to stop the terminal from being built. NPR's Richard Harris has this story of the fight in Bellingham, Washington. If you want to get a sense of what the proposed coal terminal in Bellingham would look like, visit the Westshore Terminal just across the border in British Columbia. Trains a mile-and-a-half long rumble into this port, day and night and snake into a large building. There the trains roll onto a device that tips the coal cars over with the ease of a five-year-old playing with a toy train. "So this is a double dumper, so it'll know it's two cars in ones." Denis Horgan is vice president and general manager of Westshore Terminals. Most of the trains haul Canadian coal,but more and more the trains are arriving from Wyoming and Montana, loaded with coal that will be burned in Asia to make electricity. We follow the coal from the dumping station up to open conveyor belts. Some of it gets piled up in giant stacks, and some gets trundled over to a waiting ship.