Re: Could Trump Reopen The NWP to Eureka?
Author: Maverick
Date: 09-20-2019 - 12:31
Another problem is political. California is a blue state. Humboldt and Mendocino are blue districts. Senators are Dems. So no win for Trump to invest his energies there to force businesses to use rail. But if he wanted to help drive housing starts up he could reduce cost of lumber by allowing wholesale removal of surplus timberlands and creating huge savings for mills and wood products plants in the North Coast area. Tax breaks dependent on shipping via rail. The rail would balance whatever small environmental costs would be incurred by cutting down all the forests and burning them and having the topsoil slough off into the rivers.