What we should learn from the failures at Port Westward and Grays Harbor. | In the first month of 2016, a pair of fledgling oil-by-rail projects abruptly collapsed in Oregon and Washington. One on the Columbia River, which had been operating since 2012, abruptly laid off more than half its workforce as it pivoted away from crude. The other, a proposal on the Pacific Coast that was still seeking permits, suddenly abandoned its intentions of handling oil. The strange history of these projects serves...
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