OPB: A one-year time clock is ticking in the state permitting process for a controversial oil terminal proposed in Vancouver, Wash.
On Tuesday, the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council held its first scoping hearing for the Tesoro-Savage terminal at the Port of Vancouver. About 300 people stood in line to get into the hearing; most of them wore red shirts in protest.
Brooks Berndt, a pastor at the United Church of Christ in Vancouver, was one of a couple hundred people who attended...