The Vancouver Columbian reports on the remarkable coalition of groups that have come together to forcefully oppose Tesoro's oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver, WA, since the project was first announced in 2013:

"When plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver surfaced in 2013, project backers likely expected opposition from environmentalists. But what they surely didn’t anticipate was that a broad swath of the region, from city councils to local businesses to Indian tribes, would so forcefully turn against a project promising tax dollars and jobs to a cash- and job-hungry community."

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Learn why Friends opposes crude oil transport through the Columbia River Gorge to proposed terminals such as Tesoro's.