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Port of Vancouver sets deadline on controversial oil terminal lease

If Vancouver Energy cannot get permits, approval by March 31, Port will terminate lease

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The Port of Vancouver Commission voted unanimously this morning to end the controversial Vancouver Energy Tesoro Savage oil terminal lease, if Vancouver Energy cannot obtain the necessary licenses, permits and approvals required to operate by March 31.

A standing-room-only crowd, many of whom have been fighting against the Vancouver Energy crude-by-rail proposal for nearly five years, greeted the commissioners at their meeting this morning.
“Since 2013, we have urged the Port to protect clean air, clean water and our children’s future,” Don Steinke, a local leader in the campaign to stop the oil train terminal, said. “This is why the community elected Eric LaBrant and Don Orange to the Port Commission. This is the right decision for the community and the Port.”

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