April 7, 2016, 4:50pm Business
With the Port of Vancouver's staff recommending against a proposed lease change for Vancouver Energy's rail-to-marine oil terminal -- and no guarantee on how the port's three commissioners might vote on it -- the threat of derailment for what would be the nation's largest oil terminal is suddenly very real. Read story
April 7, 2016, 6:01am Business
The Washington Department of Ecology seeks public comment on two proposed rules aimed at improving oil transportation safety. Read story
April 6, 2016, 12:43pm Business
The Port of Vancouver delivered a major blow to the proposed rail-to-marine oil terminal when the port’s staff came out against a cost-saving contract renegotiation requested by Vancouver Energy. Read story
March 31, 2016, 4:26pm Business
A company planning to build a crude-by-rail shipping terminal in Grays Harbor County has quietly stepped away from a leasing option. Read story
March 29, 2016, 5:05pm Business
A new poll released Tuesday by the Port of Vancouver shows an equal split of support and opposition to the proposed oil rail-to-marine transfer terminal at the port, with fully one-third of residents strongly opposed to the project. Read story
March 25, 2016, 4:03pm Business
It will be weeks yet before the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council gets through the 250,000 comments it received on the oil terminal proposed for the Port of Vancouver. Read story
March 21, 2016, 6:10am Clark County News
In the state of Washington, the environment has its own attorney. And that attorney, a member of the state attorney general's staff, occupies a little-known but quite important corner of the state's regulatory labyrinth through which Vancouver Energy's proposed oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver must pass. Read story
March 20, 2016, 6:00am Business
It's not supposed to be easy for Vancouver Energy to build the nation's largest oil terminal on the banks of the Columbia River. Washington's environmental regulations guarantee that. But there is a path through the regulatory labyrinth of the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council that the company might be able… Read story
March 19, 2016, 6:23pm Clark County News
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler introduced a measure this week to help Southwest Washington's first responders be more prepared to respond to derailed oil trains. Read story
March 17, 2016, 9:40am Business
The Obama administration on Thursday canceled a disputed oil and gas lease just outside Glacier National Park that is on land considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada. Read story
