EcoWatch: Three Seattle area residents were arrested today after blockading train tracks at an oil facility at Tesoros Anacortes Refinery. The protestors were demanding an immediate end to the shipment of Bakken oil through Northwest communities, all new oil-by-rail terminals proposed for the Northwest and Clean Air Act violations by oil refineries.
Thursdays derailment was the last straw, said Jan Woodruff, an Anacortes resident who was blockading the tracks. If federal and state regulators wont...