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Major battle over oil terminal unfolds in Pacific Northwest
2016-06-26 06:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two companies proposing to build what would be the nation's largest oil-by-rail marine terminal along the Columbia River in Washington see it as an opportunity to link domestic crude oil from the Midwest to a West Coast port. Critics, however, see an environmental and safety catastrophe waiting to happen, especially after a train carrying volatile Bakken crude oil derailed and burned on June 3 in Mosier, Oregon, just 70 miles upriver from the project site in Vancouver, Washington. The battle over...
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