Oil-by-rail refinery on fast track for Longview?

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Oil-by-rail refinery on fast track for Longview?</h1>
                <h2><p>An environmental group, Columbia Riverkeeper, today is releasing a letter to state officials showing that an energy company plans to build the largest new mainland U.S. oil refinery in nearly 40 years on the Columbia River. The plans include bringing Bakken Field oil by rail and then shipping oil</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>An environmental group, Columbia Riverkeeper, today <a href="http://columbiariverkeeper.org/top-stories/refinery-details-emerge-port-of-longview-may-vote-soon/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">is releasing a letter</a> to state officials showing that an energy company plans to build the largest new mainland U.S. oil refinery in nearly 40 years on the Columbia River. The plans include bringing Bakken Field oil by rail and then shipping oil products down the Columbia. Although the company and the Port of Longview have been very low key about any construction, the Riverkeeper group believes the port could approve a deal at any time.</p>
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An environmental group, Columbia Riverkeeper, today is releasing a letter to state officials showing that an energy company plans to build the largest new mainland U.S. oil refinery in nearly 40 years on the Columbia River. The plans include bringing Bakken Field oil by rail and then shipping oil products down the Columbia. Although the company and the Port of Longview have been very low key about any construction, the Riverkeeper group believes the port could approve a deal at any time.

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