CoalWatch News, June 3, 2011

Hundreds came to the public meeting to tell the environmental assessment agencies and Compliance Coal Corp that the don't want the Raven coal mine and they don't want their harbour and streets used as a shipping port for the coal.

The sound was dreadful, the people were edgy, the company was complacent, and the bureaucrats were, well, bureaucratty. But the message was clear: no mine, no coal port.

Some Port Alberni students brought a message.