Protest delays Amtrak train for 12 hours

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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – People heading south from Vancouver on an Amtrak train were held up for around 12 hours after a protest stopped movement on the tracks near Bellingham.

The protesters released a video on Facebook explaining they were determined to delay the shipment of a train carrying coal.

“We are dealing with ocean acidification, we are dealing with all sorts of different issues. The salmon are struggling, the orca whales are struggling,” one man explains. “[There are] multiple trains every day with 100 to 150 cars on a train. Open top cars spewing coal dust, spewing emissions that are going to be burned across the world and are going to heat up this climate.”

The protesters add they weren’t too concerned about delays to the passenger trains, saying they warned Amtrak about the demonstration.

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