The state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the agency charged with reviewing a proposal by Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies to build and operate an oil transfer terminal in Vancouver, will hold a meeting in Vancouver to consider a scope of environmental review for the proposed terminal.
The meeting is open, but the agency will not take public testimony. The meeting will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in hearing room 680 of the Clark County Public Services Center, 1300 Franklin St.
The companies propose to build a $110 million oil-by-rail terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The facility would handle as much as 380,000 barrels of crude per day, shipped by train from North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation, for eventual conversion into transportation fuel. The EFSEC will make a recommendation to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who may accept it, reject it or send it back to the council for more work.
