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Inslee rejects controversial Vancouver Energy oil terminal

Governor says project’s risks ‘exceed potential benefits’

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Washington Governor Jay Inslee (right) meets with Chris Collins (left), principal restoration ecologist with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Washougal in May of 2017. The governor said today that the proposed Vancouver Energy Tesoro Savage oil terminal project, which could have brought 360,000 barrels of explosive crude oil through Camas-Washougal each day en route to the Port of Vancouver, is not in the public's best interests.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has rejected a plan to site North America’s largest oil-by-rail terminal at the Port of Vancouver.

In a letter sent today to Kathleen Drew, chair of the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC), Gov. Inslee said he agreed with the EFSEC’s findings that the risks of siting the proposed Vancouver Energy Tesoro Savage oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver were greater than any potential benefits.

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