Grist: Pacific Northwesterners worried by three planned new coal export hubs along their shorelines have something new to fear.
Oil refiner Tesoro and terminal operator Savage are trying to secure permits to build the region`s biggest crude oil shipping terminal at the Port of Vancouver, along the Washington state side of the Columbia River.
KPLU reports that the proposed terminal would receive crude by rail from oil fields in North Dakota and transfer it onto oceangoing tankers for delivery to refineries...