Stronger together: Strategies to protect local sovereignty,ecosystems, and place-based communities from the global fossil fuel trade |
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| Institution: | 1. A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;2. Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;1. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, University of Bologna, via Selmi 3, I-40126 Bologna, Italy;2. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, 101 Geology Building, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;3. Dipartimento di Geoscienze, University of Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy;4. Museo Geologico G. Cappellini, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 63, I-40126 Bologna, Italy;1. School of Earth Sciences & Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources in Western China (Gansu Province), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;2. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;3. School of Geography and Tourism, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang 550018, China;4. Guizhou Research Centre for Paleontology, College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550003, China |
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| Abstract: | In the Pacific Northwest, residents are mobilizing to prevent the coastal export of fossil fuels and protect unique ecosystems and place-based communities. This paper examines the diverse groups, largely from the Bellingham area, and how they succeeded in blocking construction of what was to be the largest coal-shipping port in North America, the Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT). Tribes, environmental organizations, faith-based groups, and other citizen groups used a multitude of approaches to prevent development, both independently and in concert. This paper reviews the various ways in which the groups collaborated and supported one another to resist the neoliberalization of the coast and support local sovereignty, unique ecosystems, and place-based communities. Groups like Power Past Coal, Protect Whatcom, and Coal-Free Bellingham fought for important and protective changes and evidenced communitywide political support, but the sovereign rights of the Lummi Nation were the legal bar to constructing the coal terminal. |
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| Keywords: | Neoliberalism Environmental justice Social movements Fishing rights Fossil fuels Community activism |
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