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The Port of Corpus Christi Gambles on Coal Export THE PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI GAMBLES ON COAL EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CORPUS CHRISTI, SHOULD CORPUS CHRISTI TIE ITS FUTURE TO VOLATILE TEXAS INTERNATIONAL MARKETS AND OUTDATED COAL? I. INTRODUCTION communities and emergency responders. Answering In a recent survey commissioned by the city’s the tough questions and making the right decisions Regional Economic Development Board, more than are critical in building Corpus Christi’s future. 1,900 respondents made it clear that the surf and II. GRAND AMBITIONS FOR COAL EXPORT AT sand must be protected and leveraged to bring new THE PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI growth to Corpus Christi. Their favorite things about the city are the water, beach and family. The City In 2011, the Port of Corpus Christi was approached needs, among other things, a better way to connect by two mining companies who sought to use the with its natural environment.1 Port’s bulk terminals to export coal mined in the Western United States. New Elk Mining Company, The city is clearly taking strides in that direction, a subsidiary of Cline Mining, began exporting having recently begun discussions, for example, coal out of the port last year, and will export about the Corpus Christi Integrated Community approximately three million tons of coal this year.2 Sustainability Plan, which focuses on new renewable In 2012, Australian mining giant Ambre Energy growth, revitalization of commercial buildings, and a will also begin exporting upwards of two million renewed commitment to protecting the city’s most tons of coal out of Corpus Christi. Based on these important assets — the surf and the sand. Yet the two contracts — totaling 5-6 million tons of coal city and the Port of Corpus Christi may be going in a annually — the existing bulk terminals at the port will completely contrary direction, and jeopardizing the reach capacity this year. The companies’ executives very things — water, beach, and family — that make are considering joining forces to propose a new bulk Corpus Christi an attractive place to live. terminal that will solely export coal. If the proposal Indeed, while the city is looking to gain is approved, the terminal will be capable of handling momentum by bringing in new economic activity upwards of 20 million tons of coal annually starting focused around sustainability and quality of life in 2017. At the same time that these private entities improvements, the Port of Corpus Christi is instead are proposing a massive new coal export terminal, looking to add new customers that lock Corpus to the Port is internally considering a separate plan volatile markets and dirty coal. that incorporates a bulk coal export facility into the proposed La Quinta Trade Gateway — a fundamental This report will discuss the plans for increased coal shift from what was originally proposed to the exports at the Port of Corpus Christi, how the coal community. export rush in the U.S. influenced this decision, how unstable international coal markets should put this According to the Port’s website, La Quinta was project in doubt, and the dangers of coal export envisioned as a “state-of-the-art multi-purpose facilities to local communities. In light of these dock and container facility” designed to handle a concerns, the paper will also ask whether locking the wide variety of general cargo including containers, Port of Corpus Christi into coal export development military cargo, wind turbines, steel pipes, and more.3 now makes sense. To support this project, the Port is funding a large dredging project to deepen the La Quinta Ship The City of Corpus Christi is at an economic and Channel. While this original vision is still exclusively public health crossroads. City leaders and the Port featured on the Port’s website,4 documents Authority will need to consider the impacts of new recently acquired from the Port as part of a coal export proposals on job creation, air quality, public information request indicate that the Port quality of life issues, impacts to the beach and Gulf, is considering two amendments to the proposal: and the impacts of increased rail traffic on rail-side The Port of Corpus Christi Gambles on Coal Export Development 1 (1) developing the entire site as a coal export bulk and Europe, and, with the expansion of the Panama terminal and scrapping all plans for a multi-use Canal, increasing access to Asia. dock or (2) devoting part of La Quinta to a coal export terminal, and scaling down the portions of IV. A HISTORY OF INSTABILITY AND the property that would be devoted to containers, VOLATILITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL COAL EXPORT MARKET general cargo, or other bulk materials.5 When the Port of Vancouver, Washington, was III. COAL EXPORT RUSH approached by an undisclosed coal company These proposals are part of a larger coal export rush represented by Sino-American,9 an Oregon-based that started in the Pacific Northwest. This expansion international trading company, the Port rejected is fueled by a drive to feed new and emerging the proposal out of hand. The Port’s operations markets the dirty fossil fuels coal companies believe manager, Mike Schiller, summarized the Port’s they require for the markets continued economic reasoning succinctly, concluding that “[c]oal is growth. International coal export is also seen as the most risky bulk mineral market.”10 Mr. Schiller’s a way to mitigate a flagging national appetite for statement is supported by figures kept by the coal fired power. The domestic demand for coal U.S. Department of Energy, recent predictions by has been steadily decreasing in recent years, due to industry analysts, and by the West Coast’s history of competition from natural gas, an economic slow- failure with thermal coal export terminals. down, stricter environmental protections against The Sightline Institute has recently analyzed data toxic emissions, and growing investment in clean from the Department of Energy, which clearly energy sources. Investment in new coal-fired power demonstrates the volatility of the global market for plants has plummeted, and utilities are making the coal.11 Their analysis finds that coal exports coming decision to retire a good number of existing plants. from Western Customs Regions (where a majority of “Coal is a dead man walkin’,” says Kevin Parker, the coal exported is thermal coal for Asian markets) global head of asset management and a member of have a long history of volatility: the executive committee at Deutsche Bank. “Banks won’t finance them. Insurance companies won’t 20 QUARTERLY COAL EXPORTS FROM insure them. And the economics to make it clean WESTERN CUSTOMS DISTRICTS don’t work.”6 18 However, executives at coal companies like 16 Ambre Energy and Cline Mining view a decrease in domestic consumption as a signal to maximize Los Angeles 14 revenue by looking to export markets. These companies predict that demand for imported coal 12 in Asia will continue to grow over the next several decades, and have been trying to woo ports in 10 Washington and Oregon, hoping to build massive new terminals to facilitate export to China and other 8 Seattle developing Asian nations. Many major ports in the TONS SHORT 100,000 Northwest, such as Portland, Kalama, and Vancouver, 6 have rejected these proposals, finding the international market for coal to be too unpredictable 4 San Francisco and risky.7 Some smaller ports, which have more Anchorage difficulty securing new business, are working with 2 coal companies on proposals for new terminals. 12 0 Despite the ports’ enthusiasm, these proposals have 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 faced massive public opposition wherever they CREDIT: SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE have been proposed and have been the subject of multiple lawsuits.8 After facing rejection from the The above graph reflects coal export’s history of ports and opposition from the communities in the failure on the West Coast: two large cities have Pacific Northwest, companies like Ambre and Cline gambled and lost on coal export terminals.13 With are turning to the Gulf. Gulf Coast ports, like Corpus high hopes for big profits, both Los Angeles and Christi, have access to markets in South America Portland invested millions of dollars and high-value The Port of Corpus Christi Gambles on Coal Export Development 2 acreage at their ports in coal export terminals, only opened, the facility shut down due to unfavorable to watch those facilities fail.14 The trend line for the market conditions, forcing the City of Lost Angeles Seattle Customs District, according to the Sightline to forfeit $94 million in expected revenue and write Institute report, shows an increase in Powder River off $19 million in capital investment in the facility.19 Basin coal shipped through Seattle on railcars for Finally, the City had to pay a $28 million settlement export to Asia from Canadian ports. to resolve a lawsuit which alleged that the City had failed to consider alternate uses for the site and had During a coal rush in the 1980s, the Port of Portland improperly managed it.20 signed a 25-year lease with Pacific Coal, committing 90 acres of riverfront to the project. After investors The coal companies which push new export and the Port spent $25 million dollars on the new terminals argue that the coal boom today is different facility, not one lump of coal was ultimately shipped and more stable that the boom and bust periods in from the Port of Portland.15 the 1980s and 1990s, relying primarily on projections of increased demand for coal in China. However, the Reporting on the failure, the Oregonian concluded International Energy Agency has warned that the that investors and public officials were fooled by trade markets are made much more unpredictable an over-hyped estimate of Asian demand, which due to China’s volatile domestic production levels.21 bottomed out: “China’s imports can either double or fall by two- What the [Far East trade representatives] thirds in the next five years,” said Laszlo Varro, head apparently had in mind was a reserve supply of IEA’s gas, coal and power division.
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