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According to Gateway Pacific Terminal's website the company plans on providing a "highly efficient portal for American producers to export dry bulk commodities such as grain, potash and coal to Asian markets." Additionally, the site contends that the "Gateway project will generate about 4,000 jobs and about $54 million a year in tax revenue for state and local services. Once in full operation, it's estimated that Gateway will provide almost $10 million a year in tax revenue, create about 280 permanent family-wage jobs directly, and nearly 1,400 additional jobs through terminal purchases and employee spending."<ref>[http://www.gatewaypacificterminal.com/project/ "Gateway Pacific Terminal Overview"] Gateway Pacific Terminal website, accessed April 19, 2011.</ref>
===[[Port of St. Helens ]] potential candidate for coal export to Asia===In June 2011, ''The Oregonian'' reported that the [[Port of St. Helens]] in Columbia City, Oregon was being eyed as a potential Northwest port that would export coal to Asian countries. It was also reported that [[Columbia Riverkeeper]], which opposes coal export, asked a judge to require St. Helens Port to release all of its coal-related documents. In a response, a lawyer for the port stated that doing so would violate a confidentiality agreement and "would result in the greatest harm to the public interest which can be imagined -- a loss of jobs in our community."<ref name=ore>[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/06/port_of_st_helens_potential_ca.html "Port of St. Helens potential candidate for coal export to Asia"] Scott Learn, The Oregonian, June 15, 2011.</ref>
Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber, wrote in a statement to ''The Oregonian'' that the terminal "should not happen in the dead of night. We must have an open, vigorous public debate before any projects move forward."<ref name=ore/>
In January 2012 ''The Oregonian'' reported that [[Kinder Morgan Energy Partners]] would develop a dry bulk export terminal at the Port of St. Helens' Port Westward industrial park, using rail lines and building facilities to store and load coal.
Ambre Energy also announced that their subsidiary [[Pacific Transloading]] would ship 3.5 million metric tons of coal a year with potential to ship as much as 8 million metric tons with port approval. Coal would be shipped on covered barges, received at Port Westward and directly loaded onto about 50 ocean-going ships a year. Pacific Transloading would ship 3.5 million metric tons of coal a year with potential to ship as much as 8 million metric tons with port approval the company stated.<ref>[http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/01/two_coal_companies_want_to_exp.html "Two coal companies want to export coal through the Port of St. Helens"] Scott Learn, The Oregonian, January 17, 2012.</ref>
===[[Port of Coos Bay]] in Oregon considers coal exports===
