New Report: Northwest Oil Trains Could Drive Growth in Tar Sands
What Northwest crude-by-rail terminals mean for the global climate. | President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline was without doubt a victory for climate protection. It also left many...
View ArticleWhat the Northwest Needs to Know about the Crude Oil Export Ban Lift
The Thin Green Line just grew more important than ever. | In the wake of a historic agreement at this month’s Paris Climate Change Conference, the United States is expected to take the significantly...
View ArticleSightline to Testify in Trial of the Delta 5
Activists who blocked an oil train affirm “the cost is worth paying.” | Editor’s note 1/14/16: See KING 5’s video coverage of the trial, including testimony from Eric de Place, here. Update 1/15/16:...
View ArticleListen In: Oil Trains in the Northwest, Explained
Eric de Place answers all of your oil-by-rail questions on KEXP Mind Over Matters. | How much oil currently moves through the Northwest? Where does it come from and where is it going? What are the...
View ArticleEvent: Coal and Oil Trains in the Columbia River Gorge
Eric de Place discusses the impacts of proposed dirty energy projects in Camas, Washington. | Next Tuesday, February 9th, Eric de Place will join leaders in the Vancouver, Washington, area for the...
View ArticleEvent: Pacific Northwest Pledge of Resistance
Eric de Place keynotes a Thin Green Line assembly and teach-in. | This Saturday, hundreds of Seattle area residents will gather to formally voice their opposition to a raft of oil, coal, and gas...
View ArticleKilling the Crude Oil Export Ban: A Postmortem
A secretive process, a serious outcome. | About a year-and-a-half ago, when Anna Sewell, a new lawyer for EarthJustice, moved across the country to Seattle from the heart of the Marcellus shale natural...
View ArticleTwo Northwest Oil Train Projects Flop
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...
View ArticleWhat Washington’s New Oil-by-Rail Rules Will Tell Us
Taxpayers are on the hook for expensive oil train risks. | Shipping crude oil by train is an extraordinarily dangerous enterprise. Notoriously prone to leaks and spills, recent history has shown that...
View ArticleWhat is the Magnuson Amendment?
And what does it mean for Northwest oil development schemes? | When, at the close of 2015, Congress killed the United States’ 40-year ban on exporting domestic crude oil, many wondered if the change...
View ArticleDid Trump Just Kill a Northwest Oil-By-Rail Project?
The administration's pipeline mania could wreak havoc on NW oil-by-rail plans. | The deeply controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as DAPL, got another boost last week after lawmakers claimed...
View Article154,000 Barrels of Crude-by-Rail Each Day to Puget Sound
What Washington’s new report tells us about Northwest oil trains. | Last week, the Washington Department of Ecology published its first quarterly report on oil transport in the state, including...
View ArticleTrains Moved Over 140,000 Barrels of Oil Daily through Washington This Winter
New Department of Ecology report details crude-by-rail movement for the first quarter of 2017. | The Northwest public recently saw the second publication of quarterly oil train data for Washington....
View ArticleAnother Columbia River Oil Trains Proposal
And a chance for the public to stop it. | Northwest communities have been knocking down oil train development proposals as fast as they can spring up. In the last two years alone the region’s...
View Article157,000 Barrels of Crude-by-Rail per Day to Puget Sound
Virtually all West Coast oil trains come to Washington. | A pair of new data releases help sketch a clearer picture of how oil trains move throughout the Northwest. By analyzing the data in the new...
View ArticleEvent: Pacific Northwest Pledge of Resistance
Eric de Place keynotes a Thin Green Line assembly and teach-in. | This Saturday, hundreds of Seattle area residents will gather to formally voice their opposition to a raft of oil, coal, and gas...
View ArticleKilling the Crude Oil Export Ban: A Postmortem
A secretive process, a serious outcome. | About a year-and-a-half ago, when Anna Sewell, a new lawyer for EarthJustice, moved across the country to Seattle from the heart of the Marcellus shale natural...
View ArticleTwo Northwest Oil Train Projects Flop
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...
View ArticleWhat Washington’s New Oil-by-Rail Rules Will Tell Us
Taxpayers are on the hook for expensive oil train risks. | Shipping crude oil by train is an extraordinarily dangerous enterprise. Notoriously prone to leaks and spills, recent history has shown that...
View ArticleWhat is the Magnuson Amendment?
And what does it mean for Northwest oil development schemes? | When, at the close of 2015, Congress killed the United States’ 40-year ban on exporting domestic crude oil, many wondered if the change...
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