Oil-by-rail plan for Vancouver

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Oil-by-rail plan for Vancouver</h1>
                <h2><p>State agencies will take comments on Tuesday about what issues they should address in the environmental review of the large oil shipping terminal proposed for Vancouver in southern Washington. That's according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. The oil would arrive at Vancouver by rail from North Dakota and then</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>State agencies will take comments on Tuesday about what issues they should address in the environmental review of the large oil shipping terminal proposed for Vancouver in southern Washington. That's according to <a href="http://earthfix.kcts9.org/energy/article/public-scoping-meeting-for-vancouver-port-oil-term/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Oregon Public Broadcasting</a>. The oil would arrive at Vancouver by rail from North Dakota and then be shipped to West Coast refineries. Terminal backers call it a step toward energy independence; opposing environmental groups raise concerns about spills and the safety of transporting oil in train cars. (Remember <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/12/quebec-oil-train-crash-disaster-24-bodies?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Lac-Megantic</a>, Quebec.) The environmental think tank Sightline <a href="http://daily.sightline.org/2013/06/24/the-northwests-pipeline-on-rails/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">has reported</a> nearly a dozen new proposals for shipping oil, by rail, to facilities in Oregon and Washington; at least two Northwest Washington refineries already receive rail shipments. — J.C.</p>
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State agencies will take comments on Tuesday about what issues they should address in the environmental review of the large oil shipping terminal proposed for Vancouver in southern Washington. That's according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. The oil would arrive at Vancouver by rail from North Dakota and then be shipped to West Coast refineries. Terminal backers call it a step toward energy independence; opposing environmental groups raise concerns about spills and the safety of transporting oil in train cars. (Remember Lac-Megantic, Quebec.) The environmental think tank Sightline has reported nearly a dozen new proposals for shipping oil, by rail, to facilities in Oregon and Washington; at least two Northwest Washington refineries already receive rail shipments. — J.C.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi