“With this funding, our Tribal One team will continue their work to rebuild Ko’Kwel Wharf as a productive and reliable economic resource that will help secure the future of the Coquille Tribe and our North Bend community and become a valuable member of the nation’s maritime industry,” she said. In a release from the tribe, Chair Brenda Meade hailed the news, and said the Tribe was proud to take part in the nationwide effort to rebuild their port infrastructure. He said there’s potential in overseas commerce that this wharf improvement will support, possibly including Asian markets. “It’ll be a lot cheaper, and it’s a huge environmental improvement.”ĭoering is with Tribal One, an organization that helps the Coquille Tribe with economic development. “What a lot of ports are doing now, and we’re certainly out to be one of them, is providing electricity in heavy enough volume that they can turn off their diesel engines and connect to electricity here on the dock face,” explained Doering.
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