Parking is free, but Clark College asks that drivers use the red parking lots. If the room is filled to capacity, latecomers will be asked to wait outside until people leave.
Commonly called the clean-air permit, the notice of construction air permit is required when a business creates a new source of air pollution or modifies an existing source of pollution. The permit’s goal is to make sure the sources of air pollution are established in a way that conforms with state air-quality regulations.
It must be acquired before the facility can be built.
The draft of the permit requires that Vancouver Energy have a 99.89 percent emissions-capture efficiency rating at its marine vessel vapor-capture system.
However, critics of the project argue that other pollution sources would threaten the health of residents in the Fruit Valley neighborhood and potentially into Vancouver.
Clark College has established a free speech area at Andersen Fountain near the entrance of Gaiser Hall. Project opponents are planning a rally there at 4 p.m.
The terminal is proposed for the Port of Vancouver. If built, it would receive Bakken oil from about four trains a day, pulling 120 cars. The oil would be stored on-site and transferred into marine vessels bound for refineries along the West Coast.
The terminal would be capable of handling an average of 360,000 barrels of crude oil a day, making it the largest rail-to-marine transfer terminal in the U.S.
The evaluation council is expected to make a recommendation that the project be approved or denied the project soon.
Gov. Jay Inslee will then use the recommendation to decide whether the terminal is built or not.
