Grays Harbor Considers Hosting Three Oil Terminals, But At What Cost? HOQUIAM, Wash. — Grays Harbor, with its deep-water berths and fast access to Pacific Ocean shipping routes, has all the ingredients to be a world-class... Ashley Ahearn
Oil Refinery Workers Strike For Safety At Site Of Deadly Anacortes Explosion About 200 workers at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, Washington, are on strike. They've had a 24-hour picket line at the plant's main gate for more... John Ryan
Shell Arctic Drilling Fleet OK'd To Use 'Green' West Seattle Port The Seattle Port Commission decided on Tuesday to let Shell Oil's Arctic drilling fleet use West Seattle as its home port.Shell's drill rigs and barges... John Ryan
Oil Train Safety And Taxes On Lawmakers’ Agenda For 2015 SEATTLE — For the past few years, a growing number of trains have been bringing “rolling pipelines” of oil from North Dakota to ports and refineries in... Ashley Ahearn
25 Years After Exxon Valdez, U.S. Mandates Double-Hulled Oil Tankers Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting Jan. 1, those ships are required to have double hulls. The... John Ryan