By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Environmental groups won yet another victory in the fight against proposed oil export terminals after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee rejected its permit. Unless developer Tesoro Savage appeals within 30...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Pending government approvals, BNSF Railway plans to move forward with a second bridge across Lake Pend Oreille. Company officials announced this week that design and engineering for the project...
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor A year ago in these pages, I wrote about a hearing in Spokane at which hundreds of inland Northwest residents protested the proposed construction of an “energy distribution terminal”...
By Cate Huisman Reader Contributor Last week, I attended a hearing in Spokane of Washington State’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Committee (EFSEC). Their topic was the proposed Tesoro-Savage Vancouver Energy Distribution Terminal, to be...
By Susan Drumheller Reader Contributor One of the biggest concessions made in passing the recent the national omnibus budget bill was an agreement to lift an export ban on domestically produced crude oil. That...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Aging infrastructure could be putting rail shipping lines at risk for hazardous spills, according to a new study. Out of 250 railway bridges examined in the study, 114 showed...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last week, local volunteer and concerned citizen Dave Pietz traveled to Washington, D.C. so that he could meet face to face with U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and discuss...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A little preparation goes a long way if the worst should happen. And for Sandpoint, “the worst” isn’t a huge exaggeration when it comes to a severe oil...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff At about 1 a.m. on July 6, 2013, a train carrying Bakken crude oil exploded in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Minutes later, the town looked like something out...
