text: US coal travels across the border via open car rail and into Canada, gets loaded onto barges at Fraser Surrey port, barged to Texada island, and then shipped to Asia.
  
  Because none of the ports in Washington or Oregon want it.
  
  And up until this election, Premier Clark has not expressed any environmental concerns about this, and nor has she lobbied the Port or the Feds over this issue. Not has she shown support for any of the numerous groups and associations like VTACC, or the Dogwood Initiative, EcoJustice, Metro Vancouver Regional Council et al,  that have been campaigning for years to stop this.
  
  And rest assured, if she is re-elected, she will not follow-up on her "call on Ottawa".