Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) declined Jan. 29 to permit a Tesoro-Savage proposal to build what would be the nation’s largest rail-to-maritime crude oil terminal on the Columbia River.
The draft 360,000-barrel-per-day terminal would receive crude oil hauled by Berkshire Hathaway’s BNSF Railway and ship it to refineries on the West Coast. Its geographic proximity to Asia would position it as a potential export terminal.
“Seismic conditions at the site present an unacceptable and potentially catastrophic risk to the public,” Inslee wrote in a Jan. 29 letter to the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, concurring with its ...
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