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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 […]
Continue reading The Bakken Oil Trains are Coming . . . IS SKAGIT READY?
January 15th, 2014 | Tags: Anacortes Ad Hoc Committees, Anacortes Community Coordination Commission, Anacortes First-Year Outlook, Anacortes Mayor's Advisory Committee, Anacortes Transition Team, Brad Adams, Coffee with Laurie Gere, Eric Johnson, Erica Pickett, Gere-a-Deli, John Archibald, Liz Lovelett, Matt Miller, Mayor Dean Maxwell, Mayor Laurie Gere, Ryan Walters | Category: Feature, News, Uncategorized, United States, Washington | Alliance for Democracy note: Mayor Laurie Gere defeated incumbent Mayor Dean Maxwell, 62 percent to 38 percent of the vote. Mayor Maxwell had promoted a water agreement with Tethys Enterprises in order to build the largest bottling plant in North America, which would have been entitled to five million gallons of water per day. The bottling plant had been a hot issue that worked against the vote for Mayor Maxwell.
Mayor Gere ready with plan for 2014
First-Year Outlook […]
Continue reading Anacortes Mayor Gere Wants Open and Transparent Government
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