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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
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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