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Air date:
Mon, 06/02/2014 - 12:00am
Eric de Place talks about proposed oil terminals at the Port of Vancouver & why people oppose them.
Laurie Mercier talks with Eric de Place about proposed oil processing facilities in the Port of Vancouver (the largest ever in the PNW). The Tesaro terminals would bring in as much as half a million barrels of oil a day from the Alberta Tar Sands and other sites in North America. Eric reviews the recent history of both built and proposed oil infrastructure in Washington and Oregon. Eric explains how oil trains and infrastructure not only contribute to global ecological and economic volatility, but also how local ecologies and economies are systematically damaged by them, and how local communities are organizing against them. To this end, they talk about the sheisty ways that this project has been tentatively pushed for and an important Vancouver City Council meeting where testimony will be heard defending a resolution to reject the terminals*. They consider how both the business and larger community oppose the terminals, the lies about job-creation and other economic benefits.
*This meeting has since convened, and in wee hours of Tuesday morning after hearing 7 hours of testimony, the terminals were stopped in a 5-2 vote!
Eric is policy director and analyst for the Sightline Institute, an independent research center based in Seattle that focuses on environmental & sustainability issues facing the Pacific NorthWest.
*This meeting has since convened, and in wee hours of Tuesday morning after hearing 7 hours of testimony, the terminals were stopped in a 5-2 vote!
Eric is policy director and analyst for the Sightline Institute, an independent research center based in Seattle that focuses on environmental & sustainability issues facing the Pacific NorthWest.
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