AHOY, SAFE SHIPPERS! Just when you thought you had sent in your comments on every possible project proposal that would increase vessel traffic and accident and oil spill risk in our waters, along comes yet another. This one is just across the border. THE PROJECTThe Centerm Expansion Project in Vancouver BC would increase container ship traffic through Georgia Strait, Boundary Pass, Haro […]
Remember the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion? This is the project that would increase Canadian crude oil tankers in the Salish Sea from 120 to 816 transits a year. Because this dramatic increase in shipping brings with it an increased risk of a major oil spill in our waters, Safe Shippers have been […]
SAFE SHIPPERS NEVER GIVE UP! The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Tesoro Savage Petroleum Terminal in Vancouver, Washington is now ready for our comments. Safe Shippers submitted comment letters in December 2013 and August 2015 asking our State to consider islanders’ unique concerns — concerns about the impacts from this project on the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales, and concerns about the impacts […]
FROM THE SAN JUANS TO GRAYS HARBOR — AND BACK Two projects that need our attention Two existing and adjacent terminals in Grays Harbor, Westway and Imperium, want to expand their facilities to bring in crude oil by rail to their project sites where they will load it onto tankers and tank barges “for shipping to refineries […]
Our neighbor, the Shell refinery in Anacortes, wants to bring in oil by rail from the Bakken fields in North Dakota. To do so, they would need to build a new rail track from the existing BNSF line in Burlington to their refinery on March Point in order to receive six 102-car trains per week.Shell was hoping that they could […]
Click on the map above to download a flyer detailing the proposed projects and their increased vessel traffic.
16 months after applying and being accepted to comment, and after many delays and extensions on Canada’s part, San Juan Islanders for Safe Shipping just submitted our letter to Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) asking them to reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline saying: “We are writing to voice our opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion […]
It’s déjà vu all over again! In December 2013, Safe Shippers sent letters to Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council asking them to study the possible impacts of the proposed Tesoro Savage crude oil shipping terminal on the Columbia River — impacts specific to San Juan Islanders. Same project, same problems — but this time our concerns […]
A growing number of communities in Washington State have been voicing their concerns over the increase of fossil fuel rail transport. When this volatile danger travels right past their front yards, waterfront parks, their places of business, and their children’s schools, people speak out — loudly. As a result, many local governments, boards, and first […]
Here are some recent headlines that make Safe Shippers very happy. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund will sell off its coal assets Business Insider. May 28, 2015 http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-told-to-sell-coal-assets-2015-5 ************ Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion Vancouver Observer. May 27, 2015 http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/tsleil-waututh-first-nation-rejects-kinder-morgan-trans-mountain-expansion ************ Hometown environmental advocate takes plunge into Seattle port commission race The […]
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