Written by Associated Press on May 28, 2021
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) The federal government has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should not take up a lawsuit in Wyoming over a blocked coal export terminal because the company behind the proposal is bankrupt and won’t be building the project.
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued in a brief that there is no legal controversy for the high court to consider because the Millennium Bulk Terminal project won’t proceed, The Casper Star-Tribune reported Wednesday.
The proposed terminal’s parent company Lighthouse Resources Inc. declared bankruptcy in December. It then failed to find an interested buyer for the terminal.
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Millennium parent company files for Chapter 11; Columbia River site goes back to Alcoa By Marissa Heffernan, The Daily News
Published: January 19, 2021, 10:15am
Share: Millennium Bulk Logistics-Longview, a company owned by two coal producers, wants to build an operation in Longview to export 44 million metric tons of coal annually to Asia. (The Columbian files)
LONGVIEW After Millennium Bulk Terminals’ parent company filed for bankruptcy this month, the fate of the proposed coal terminal on the old Reynolds Aluminum Co. site is again in doubt, with opponents to the terminal calling the project dead.
On Jan. 8, a bankruptcy judge in Delaware signed a motion by Millennium Bulk Terminals’ parent company, Lighthouse Resources, to withdraw from Millennium’s lease with Alcoa, which owns the land along the north bank of the Columbia River near Longview. The move puts all of Lighthouse’s holdings under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.