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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
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 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Foster Pepper, largest in North America, Mayor Maxwell, one million square foot, Sandra Spargo, Skagit County, Skagit River, Tethys, Tethys termination, Washington, Washington bottling plant | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Oct. 2, 2013
Anacortes, WA
Skagit County
Anacortes taxpayers paid $48,139.49 to Foster Pepper of Seattle to write the 2010 Tethys-City of Anacortes water agreement that contains no termination clause for either Tethys or the City of Anacortes.
Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin learned yesterday that Tethys Enterprises and Mayor Maxwell/Foster Pepper have been secretly negotiating the termination of the 2010 Water Agreement. Two Anacortes city council members learned about negotiations yesterday. Maxwell is yet to inform [...]
Continue reading Mayor Maxwell & Tethys Enterprises Secretly Negotiate
July 14th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Anacortes economic development, bottled water, bottling plant jobs, Brian Geer, Dean Maxwell, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, election, largest bottling plant in North America, Laurie Gere, Mitch Everton, Skagit County, Skagit River, Tethys, Tethys Enterprises, Water Wars | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald Mount Vernon, Wash.
Friday, July 12, 2013
ANACORTES MAYOR
Anacortes mayor’s debate focuses on jobs, Tethys
By MARK STAYTON
ANACORTES — The four candidates for Anacortes’ mayoral seat offered their views on strategic planning, economic development and the Tethys water bottling plant proposal Thursday afternoon during their second debate leading up to the Aug. 6 primary election.
Hosted by the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, the debate focused largely on how candidates Brian Geer, Mitch Everton, [...]
Continue reading Anacortes mayor’s debate focuses on proposed Tethys bottling plant
May 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottling plant, CWSP, Cynthia Richardson, in-stream flow, PUD, Ross Barnes, Skagit County, Skagit County Coordinated Water System Plan, Skagit River, Tethys Enterprises, UGA Boundary, Washington water, water shortages, water treatment plant | Category: Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States, Washington |
Skagit River
Despite city’s assurances, shortages loom in the future
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:41 PM
Reader Commentary, Anacortes American Wednesday, April 24, 2012
BY ROSS O. BARNES Anacortes, Wash.
The City of Anacortes’ 55 million gallons per day of continuous and 11 million gallons per day of interruptible Skagit River water rights are recognized as a principal water supply resource in Skagit County that will be increasingly called on to supply the future needs [...]
Continue reading Despite City of Anacortes Assurances, Water Shortages Loom in the Future
March 7th, 2013 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, CEO Steve Winter, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Fidalgo Island, food-grade bottling plant, giant unit trains, Sandra Spargo, Skagit River, Tesoro Bakken shale oil, Tethys, UGA, urban growth area, Washington | Category: Anacortes, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, News, Resources, United States, Washington | 
Defending Water in the Skagit Basin, an arm of Defending Water in Washington presents this March 2013 newsletter featuring a Tethys Enterprises Beverage Bottling Plant Site Update. We hope this information provides insight to the impact that the plant will have on Fidalgo Island and surrounding Skagit County Communities. [...]
Continue reading Defending Water in the Skagit Basin March Newsletter
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