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March 4th, 2014 | Tags: (AAR), American Association of Railroads, Anacortes City Council, Anacortes Mayor Laurie Gere, Bakken crude oil, DOT regulations, DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Liz Lovelett, Mount Vernon Fire Chief Roy Hari, Oil boom, oil volatility, PHMSA, rail boom, rail car safety, Shell Anacortes, Skagit County, Skagit County bridges, Tesoro, Tesoro Anacortes, Tesoro Chief Executive Officer Greg Goff, Thomas Rizzo, tougher tank car standards, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, Wash. | Category: Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Bakken crude oil deliveries raise safety questions
By Daniel DeMay | Posted: Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:40 pm
An oil tanker train sits on the rail line that parallels Highway 20 west of Burlington in this photo taken in November 2013. Scott Terrell / Skagit Valley Herald
OLYMPIA [Wash.] — The issue of shipping oil by rail has gone from the background to the front burner almost overnight.
There are no less […]
Continue reading The Bakken Oil Trains are Coming . . . IS SKAGIT READY?
February 24th, 2014 | Tags: 160-foot water tower, Bar RR Ranches LLC, Bartonville, Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Corp. hydraulic fracturing, fracking, Mayflower, Michael Witten, outside Dallas, President Patrick McDonald, Rex Tillerson, Texas, Tillerson lawsuit, US House Majority Leader Dick Armey | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Health, Multimedia, News, Other States, Photo, United States, Washington | Bartonville : TX : USA | Feb 22, 2014 at 7:22 AM PST
BY JOHNTHOMAS DIDYMUS Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson: No fracking near my home
Exxon Mobil Corp. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is an ardent proponent of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), but only when it isn’t in his backyard.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Tillerson is one […]
Continue reading Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson Joins Lawsuit to Stop Fracking Activity Near His Home
February 14th, 2014 | Tags: 000 barrels per day, 890, Brian Cladoosby, Canada's National Energy Board, EarthJustice.org, Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline project, Lummi Nation, Musqueam, Salish Sea, Squamish, Suquamish Tribe, Swinomish Tribe, Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Tulalip Tribes | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, Rights of Nature, United States, Washington | Skagit County, Washington
Skagit Valley Herald staff | Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:00 am
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community will oppose the proposed Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline project, it announced Thursday.
The tribe said it will oppose the project before Canada’s National Energy Board, along with the Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, Suquamish Tribe and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Canada.
“Over the last 100 years, our most sacred site, the Salish Sea, has been deeply impacted by […]
Continue reading Swinomish Tribe Joins Opposition to Canadian Oil Pipeline
February 14th, 2014 | Tags: 100-car oil trains, Anacortes, Functions and Values of Wetlands, Improving Rail Integrity, JARPA, Keystone XL Project, March's Point Heron Colony, oil trains, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve, PEIS, PHS Single Page Management Recommendations: Great Blue Heron, Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Shell Oil, Shell PSR Mitigation Bank Use Plan, Shell SEPA Checklist, Track Safety Standards, Washington train disaster | Category: Action Alerts, Action Alerts, Community Rights, Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, Statewide, United States, Video, Washington | Tom Glade, President
Evergreen Islands, Anacortes, Wash.
PUBLIC COMMENT DEADLINES (MONDAY IS PRESIDENTS DAY!):
BY HAND: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 3:30 PM BY MAIL (ANACORTES PO): SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 15, 1:30pm BY INTERNET: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM BY FAX: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM (FAX: 360-336-9416)
Since Skagit County’s environmental review is only about potential environmental impacts
that occur on Shell’s property, the environmental impacts of oil train disasters en route will not
[…]
Continue reading Proposed Shell/Equilon Oil Train Terminal, Anacortes
February 5th, 2014 | Tags: Brent Bower, Dan Partridge, Lower Columbia Basin 45 percent of normal, Natural Resources Conservation Service in Mount Vernon, Olympic peninsula basin 50 percent less than average, Scott Pattee, snowpack levels 50 percent less than average, Washington drought, Washington dry weather, Washington possible drought, Washington snowpack levels | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Seattle Times, Jan. 31, 2014
Officials monitoring lower than usual snowpack levels in Washington state say it’s not time to panic, but they’re nevertheless preparing in case of a possible drought.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE —Officials monitoring lower than usual snowpack levels in Washington state say it’s not time to panic, but they’re nevertheless preparing in case of a possible drought.The Department of Ecology plans to ask the Legislature for drought-relief money in case dry […]
Continue reading Dry Winter Causes Concerns About Possible Drought
February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: Advanced H2O, Advanced Refreshment, bottled water, Concrete, Jason Miller, LTI Inc., Niagara Bottling Company, Superior Spring, Wash. | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | By Kimberly Cauvel | Jan. 28, 2014
CONCRETE — The town decided Monday to turn down Niagara Bottling’s interest in purchasing its pristine water, partly to protect the town’s ongoing relationship with another bottling company and partly because of a lack of detail in Niagara’s request.
An LTI Inc. driver fills two trailers with water from the town’s well in April 2011. LTI transports the water to Advanced H20 in Burlington for bottling. […]
Continue reading Concrete, Wash., Turns Down Bottler’s Request to Buy Town’s Water
February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: 200 miles of tributaries, 464 miles of salmon-rich Olympic Peninsula rivers, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Dave Reichert, Illabot Creek, Middle Fork Snoqualmie, national Wild and Scenic Rivers system, Oregon's rivers, Pasco Republican Rep. Doc Hastings', Pratt River, Reagan Dunn, Rep. Derek Kilmer, Sen. Patty Murray, Skagit's wintering bald eagles, Washington rivers, Wild Olympics bill | Category: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States, Washington | Congress should approve bills adding more Washington rivers to the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system, where the state is now woefully underrepresented.
Seattle Times Editorial
GABRIEL CAMPANARIO / THE SEATTLE TIMES MORE than 1,900 miles of Oregon’s rivers are protected in the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
Washington, in contrast, has fewer than 200 designated miles. That’s downright embarrassing for a state with thousands of miles of rivers that clearly […]
Continue reading Time to Catch Up to Oregon in Protecting Rivers
January 19th, 2014 | Tags: 81 killer whales, Center for Biological Diversity, Killer whales, National Marine Fisheries Service protect critical habitat, Puget Sound killer whales, Sharah Uhlemann, Southern Resident population, Southern Residents | Category: Action Alerts, Action Alerts, Feature, News, United States, Washington | January 16, 2014
Center for Biological Diversity.
Contact: Sarah Uhlemann, (206) 327-2344, suhlemann@biologicaldiversity.org
Declining Salmon Populations, Pollution, Ocean Noise Threaten Iconic Species Off Coasts of Washington, Oregon, California
Photo courtesy NOAA.
SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal petition today with the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect more critical habitat for the endangered Southern Resident population of killer whales. If successful the proposal would extend Endangered […]
Continue reading Expanded Habitat Protection Sought for Endangered Killer Whales on the West Coast
January 18th, 2014 | Tags: Cherry Point coal export terminal, coal industry, fundamental environmental laws, largest coal export terminal in North America, stand up against efforts to weaken SEPA, Tiffany McGuyer, Washington Department of Ecology, Washington Senate Environment and Economic Development, Washington SEPA | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Wash. Conservation voters Tiffany McGuyer @ wcvoters.org
Jan. 17, 2014
When a proposal was created to build the largest coal export terminal in North America – you got loud. Over 124,000 concerned citizens submitted comments and more than 8,200 people attended hearings on the Cherry Point coal export terminal.
Thankfully, the Department of Ecology determined that such an unprecedented project deserved a comprehensive review.
Yet yesterday, a joint work session in the [Wash.] State Legislature by the Senate Environment […]
Continue reading Stand Up for Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
January 16th, 2014 | Tags: 25 acres of wetlands, Alaska oil decreasing, Anacortes 100-car trains carrying Bakken oil, Anacortes North Dakota's Bakken oil, Bakken oil, build new wetlands, Burlington, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway line onto Shell property, East March Point Road, March Point, Mount Vernon, Nookachamps Wetlands Mitigation Bank, Paul Queary, Shell Anacortes refinery, Shell Oil, Shell's Puget Sound Refinery, Skagit River, Thomas Rizzo | Category: Anacortes, Feature, News, United States, Washington |
Shell Oil Company located on March Point, Anacortes, Wash.
Posted by: Mark Stayton for Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash. in Bakken News, Energy, Dec. 21, 2013
ANACORTES — Shell’s Puget Sound Refinery on March Point is moving closer to building a rail offloading facility for crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation now that high-level design […]
Continue reading Anacortes–Shell’s Bakken Rail Unloading Facility Moves Forward
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