July 15, 2014, 12:00am Business
Approval of a narrow land-use consistency matter does not mean Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies will be allowed to handle as much as 380,000 barrels of crude per day at the Port of Vancouver, according to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council. Read story
July 15, 2014, 12:00am Business
SEATTLE -- Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive oil train wrecks and the department's own findings that those accidents pose an "imminent hazard." Read story
July 15, 2014, 12:00am Business
WASHINGTON - The oil industry and the railroads that haul its crude have offered U.S. regulators a joint plan to phase out a type of older tank car tied to a spate of fiery accidents, according to two people familiar with the proposal. Read story
July 15, 2014, 12:00am Business
Could the city of Vancouver, which opposes having the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal built in its backyard, wrest control of the project's fate from state regulators? Read story
July 13, 2014, 12:00am Business
With promises of economic development in tow, Westway Group LLC, Imperium Renewables and U.S. Development Group LLC want to build three oil-by-rail terminals on Grays Harbor that would all together bring more than 175,000 barrels of crude oil per day into the region. Read story
July 9, 2014, 12:00am Business
Opponents of a proposal to build the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail facility at the Port of Vancouver on Tuesday pressed their safety concerns and peppered commissioners with questions in light of the one-year anniversary of the deadly oil-train explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Read story
July 4, 2014, 12:00am Business
PORTLAND -- When Oregon officials at last released oil train routing information after a monthlong public records battle, they still decided to redact some information. But officials in Washington had no such qualms. Read story
July 4, 2014, 12:00am Business
PORTLAND -- Two railroads ran a total of three oil train cars per week through Oregon's most populous county, a disclosure railroad companies fought to keep from public release. Read story
June 30, 2014, 12:00am Latest News
PORTLAND -- Police have moved a protester attached to a barrel full of concrete off of a railroad track at a Portland oil terminal and arrested her. Read story
June 27, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The state Department of Ecology has awarded a $250,000 contract to Environmental Research Consulting of New York for an analysis of the impacts of marine and rail oil transportation in Washington state. Read story
