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Vancouver Port is a deep-water port located in Vancouver, Washington, United States. The port contains five terminals along the Columbia River and has considered several fossil fuel export terminal proposals in the last decade, but voted in 2019 to ban any future fossil fuel export terminals from being constructed at the port.

Location

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Coal

In October 2012, Vancouver Port officials were exchanging emails with Kinder Morgan about a proposal to bring coal into the port by train and store it in train cars until it was time to load the coal onto ships. Port officials declined the offer. Vancouver is on the Northwest’s coal route: trainloads of coal destined for Asia — about 2 million tonnes a year — pass by the Port of Vancouver on the way to a port in British Columbia. Environmentalists worry more proposals for coal exports out of Vancouver will be presented.

Vancouver Energy Oil Terminal Proposal

In 2013, Vancouver Energy, a joint venture of companies Tesoro and Savage, won a permit to build an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The terminal would have transported up to 360,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the port for export.

There was immediate, widespread backlash to the proposal. The Vancouver City Council voted against the oil terminal in 2014. During the public comment period for the terminal's Environmental Impact Statement, over 290,000 public comments were submitted, with the vast majority opposing the terminal.

The Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) voted unanimously to reject the proposal in 2017. Washington Governor Jay Inslee sided with the EFSEC and rejected the proposal in January 2018. Tesoro and Savage officially abandoned their plans in February 2018.

Ban on Future Fossil Fuel Terminals

In June 2019, as a result of public pressure aimed to prevent future proposals similar to the Vancouver Energy Project from being pursued, the Port of Vancouver commissioners voted 2 to 1 to "not pursue new bulk fossil fuel terminals on port-owned industrial property."

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