The article fails to mention that oil and coal trains are already running on our local train tracks; just giving a state-wide number. The anti-oil terminal crowd is mainly composed of the same folks who supported bringing light rail and tolls to SW Washington, via the CRC and its bridge too low. Supporters of the oil terminal said opponents had the issues completely backward. Rising on a former industrial site, the Waterfront, they said, hopes to charge rents far beyond the historic market levels in a city that has long suffered in the shadow of glossier, hipper Portland, Ore., just across the river. But without the jobs and bolstered activity at the Port of Vancouver, terminal officials said, the city’s grand urban dreams might not be feasible. Vancouver, with 167,000 residents, has prospered, but has often struggled, as a kind of kid-brother city to Portland, with many commuters living on this side of the river because Washington has no state income tax. The oil terminal would create 320 construction jobs, and 176 permanent operations jobs on the site, and inject $2 billion into the local and regional economy over 15 years according to Vancouver Energy.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:03:30 +0000
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