There will be stakeholder involvement and a public involvement program.

Are children considered stakeholders?

Define "stakeholder".

City of Portland's involved...so we better get the SoWa and Pearl developers, the Streetcar builders, the bicycle lobby...token representation from low income interest groups, the gay and lesbian business alliance, Metro of course is going to have a huge presence.

Anyone else? Shut up and pay your taxes. And remember, vote for Sam!

Why bother to even announce or have stakeholder involment or public input? A total waste of time!
But the city tweeters will be kept busy.
Chrip Chirp.

Two thirds of the electricity used by over a billion people and a plethora of wildly growing industries in China comes from burning coal. A considerable portion of the resulting air pollution blows across the Pacific right back into our faces, particularly on the west coast.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34958806/ns/world_news-world_environment/

I'll bet there's little mention of these easily verifiable facts in any publically facing city publication or website. The hypocrisy would then be too obvious.

In Portland, God bless us, it takes a lot of process.

Started to look at this, couldn't do it, got a nauseous feeling by this "worn out formula" by our city to get to where they want.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So sorry for the people in the West Hayden Island fight ahead. The path they lead people down is not merry as it generally ends up in Council with an Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, and I see your point, but Aye.

Portlanders and other Oregonians will be huffing even more of China's air pollution and finding acidifcation and metals toxification (mercury, manganese, etc.) of their salmon waters and drinking water as it drifts back home from burning over in China. Not to mention, the runoff and fugitive dust drift offsite into the Columbia and the Portland-Vancouver airshed of all that filthy coal jazz and coal train diesel exhaust.

Try to process that, Port of Portland and you other filthy money grubbers.

Gotta have the bucks to build the world's largest (and no doubt "Award Winning") condo/bicycle/streetcar playground. Too bad they had to wreck an already populated and pleasant place called Portland, Oregon to do it. But I guess that's why we have urban renewal, to clean up all the shanty-towns and ghettos that make up the city.

Snarkiness aside, if we didn't ship the coal to China, some other west coast city would. After all, we still have a lot of coal and we wouldn't want the Chinese to just come take it, would we?

Here's the irony in a nutshell...
We ship them the coal that burns and creates the emissions that blow back on top of our heads and into our eyes and lungs and waterways so we can use the money to stop using coal and construct the fantasy that because we've gone "green" no harm will come to us.

Mr. Grumpy,Too bad they had to wreck an already populated and pleasant place called Portland, Oregon to do it.

You said it. Listening to Strauss "Four Last Songs" while reading the above is enough to bring tears rolling for what was our once beloved City of Roses.