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March 4th, 2014 | Tags: 100-car oil train, Anacortes refineries, Bakken crude, Bakken oil trains, BP, Burlington, Burlington Fire Department, Burlington fire trucks, Carolyn Gastellum, Cherry Point to China, College Way, Emergency response teams from Skagit County, Emergency response to Bakken oil trains, ForestEthics, four refineries in northern Puget Sound, Gateway Pacific Terminal, Hoag Road, life safety first priority, Matt Krough, Mount Vernon Fire Chief Roy Hari, Mount Vernon Mayor Jill Boudreau, Mount Vernon traffic, North Dakota's Bakken fields, oil from North Dakota to Skagit County, oil train EIS, Padilla Bay, Phillips 66, Protect Whatcom, Puget Sound, Riverside Drive, Shell EIS, Shell Oil Anacortes, Skagit and Whatcom Counties, Skagit County, Skagit County planners, Skagit residents, Skagit River, Skagit River 600 feet from railroad tracks, Swinomish Channel, Terry Weschler, Tesoro EIS, Tesoro Oil Anacortes | Category: Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Kimberly Cauvel | Posted: Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:30 pm
Colette Weeks
A train pulls tanks of crude oil toward the refineries in Anacortes in August.
Traffic is blocked at three major intersections in Mount Vernon, and a fire is burning downtown.
Mount Vernon and Burlington fire trucks and ambulances dispatched to the scene determine alternate routes because a 100-car oil train is blocking crossings at [...]
Continue reading Oil Trains Coming: Local Officials Prepare for the Worst
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 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
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Continue reading Proposed Shell/Equilon Oil Train Terminal, Anacortes
December 20th, 2013 | Tags: acting deputy director of NOAA's Coastal Services Center, EPA, Gov. John Kitzhaber, John King, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nina Bell;Oregon coastal pollution regulation, NOAA, NOS, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, Oregon 90-day public comment period, Oregon coastal pollution;'Tags: ', ', ', ' | ' million annually, Oregon coho salmon habitat, Oregon logging, Oregon pollution from aging and leaky septic systems, Oregon storm water management for new development, Oregon water pollution;Northwest Environmental Advocates, Richard Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: 0-a-month sewer bills, Association of Washington Business, Dave Clark, Department of Ecology, fish consumption issue, HDR Engineering, HDR study, human fish consumption, Kelly Susewind, Maia Bellon, PCBs, plans to adopt new rules for surface-water discharges, populations that eat the most fish, Puget Sound, Schroeder, sewer bills, The Association of Washington Cities, tribal fish consumption, Washington State Association of Counties, Waterkeepers Washington | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Posted December 11th, 2013 ‘Fish consumption’ issue could mean $200-a-month sewer bills — business, local-government organizations sound alarm as Ecology seeks standards no one can meet.
By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
Boise Cascade’s Wallula mill: Pulp and paper industry would be sharply affected.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 10.—$200-a-month sewer bills, anyone? Business and local governments are sounding a new warning about a Department of Ecology plan to impose water-quality standards so tough no one can [...]
Continue reading Study: New Water Quality Standards Would Cost Billions, Produce Little Benefit
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: climate legislative and legislative work group, climate skeptics, conceptual agreement, Ferndale, Governor Jay Inslee, Joe Fitzgibben, Science Applications International Corp., Sen. Doug Ericksen, Washington carbon footprint, Washington carbon pollution | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Showdown postponed on sweeping carbon-pollution policies for State. Climate panel likely to continue next year. Dec. 19, 2013 By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
The Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup holds a public hearing last week. Left to right, state Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas, filling in for Shelley Short, R-Addy, Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, and Joe Fitzgibbon, R-Des Moines; non-member Rep. Jake Fey, D-Tacoma is in second row.
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Continue reading Climate Task Force Cancels Final Meeting–No Recommendation for 2014 on Cap and Trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standards
December 4th, 2013 | Tags: 1996 agreement, 2001, 2001 Instream Flow Rule, April 14, City of Anacortes, Commissioner Sharon Dillon, Department of Ecology and Skagit County, Jacque Klug, John Roozen, Kyle Brown, Loranger, rural landowners, Skagit landowners, Skagit PUD, Skagit River Basin, state Department of Ecology, Supreme Court ruling, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tom Loranger, water meeting | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:00 am
MOUNT VERNON — State officials urged Skagit landowners Tuesday to “start fresh” and not rehash the past fights over water rights as the state searches for solutions.
“We’ve lost 12 years. And now we’re back to where we started from,” said Tom Loranger, program manager of the water resources program at the state Department of Ecology. “My hope is that we can start…with [...]
Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology Seeks to Ease Tensions at Water Meeting
November 22nd, 2013 | Tags: Brian Cladoosby, Jacque Klug, Salmon, Skagit County, Skagit River, Skagit River Basin, Stillaguamish River, Sun Peaks Estates, Swinomish Tribe, Wash. State Dept. of Ecology, water rights | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:00 am
Seven landowners in the Skagit River’s Carpenter-Fisher sub-basin have reached a settlement with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and the state Department of Ecology that will allow them to get water to their properties.
Landowners in the Sun Peak Estates subdivision, located about one mile south of the Skagit County line and east of Interstate 5, will each be able to use 350 [...]
Continue reading Tribal & Wash. State Pact Allows Some in Carpenter-Fisher Sub-Basin to Use Water
October 10th, 2013 | Tags: 2001 Skagit Instream Flow Rule, 2006 reservations, 500 landowners, instream flow, Maia Bellon, Skagit Basin well owners, Skagit County, Skagit River system, Swinomish, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v.Department of Ecology, Wash. Dept. of Ecology, Washington State Supreme Court | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Joint News Release: Washington State Department of Ecology and Swinomish Indian Tribal Community – October 10, 2013 (13-258)
Ecology and Swinomish Tribe agree 2001-2013 Skagit groundwater use secure while water supply solutions are developed
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will not require Skagit Basin well owners who established groundwater rights between April 14, 2001, and Oct. 2, 2013, to curtail their water use after a recent court decision overturned a 2006 state water rule.
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Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology and Swinomish Tribe Agree on Temporary Groundwater Use
October 7th, 2013 | Tags: 1 million square-foot bolting plant, 5 million gallons of water per day, Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, governmental transparency, largest bottling plant in North America, Mayor Maxwell, rail lines, Steve Winter, terminates water contract with Anacortes, Tethys 30 acres of land, Tethys Enterprises, Tethys letter of termination, Washington bottling plant | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:15 am | Updated: 1:38 pm, Thu Oct 3, 2013.
By Mark Stayton
ANACORTES — Tethys Enterprises recently terminated its water contract with Anacortes, cutting the last ties to a long and controversial project to build a 1 million square-foot bottling plant there.
Tethys notified Anacortes that it would stop pursuing the proposed plant on Sept. 9, Anacortes Mayor Dean Maxwell said previously.
In a letter dated Oct. 1 [...]
Continue reading Tethys Enterprises Terminates Water Contract with Anacortes
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Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution