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| Oregonian |
9/2/2014 |
Port of Portland says Pembina propane
terminal brings historic investment |
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/09/port_of_portland_says_pembina.html /a> |
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| Oregonian |
9/2/2014 |
Pembina Pipeline's Portland propane project faces lower hurdles than other terminals |
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/09 pembina_pipelines_portland_pro.html |
Rivergate lies in a zone of young, sandy soil
saturated with water, as does much of the Columbia River
floodplain, said Ian Madin, chief scientist with the
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. He
said if an earthquake of 6.0 or stronger struck the
vicinity, it could cause catastrophic ground movement at
Rivergate. |
| Port of Portland |
9/2/2014 |
Port explores propane export facility |
http://www.portofportland.com/publications/PortCurrents/?tag=/pembina |
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| OPB Earthfix |
9/2/2014 |
Port of Portland, Canada’s Pembina Make Plans
For Propane Exports To Asia |
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/09/pembina_pipelines_portland_pro.html/ |
http://www.portofportland.com/Prp_Rvrgt.aspx
Pembina’s
plan involves shipping up to 37,000 barrels of propane
per day from its Edmonton facility to a terminal on
the Columbia River in Portland’s Rivergate Industrial
District. From there, it would be stored and later
loaded onto vessels taking it down the Columbia River
and across the Pacific to buyers in China, Korea and
Japan. |
| Pembina website |
9/2/2014 |
Pembina Chooses Portland, Oregon for New West
Coast Propane Export Terminal |
http://www.pembina.com/media-centre/news-releases/news-details/?nid=135242 |
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| Oregonian |
9/13/2014 |
Pembina chief provides first details on
proposed propane export facility in Portland |
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/09/pembina_chief_provides_first_d.html#incart_related_stories |
It would also mean 1.3 mile-long trains full
of propane passing through Portland every other day.
Up to 30 million gallons would be stored on site.; We
would love to see this double in supply, but our high blue
sky case would be that it would get to 72,000 barrels a
day.; We're currently estimated the exclusion zone would
be 650 to 800 feet on either side of the vessel. |
| Port of Portland |
9/2/2014 |
New Proposed Propane Export Terminal |
http://www.portofportland.com/Notices/MAR_Propane_Export_Terminal_01_BLT.htm |
MAP of terminal site |
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| Audubon |
9/2/2014 |
Audubon statement about Port of Portland
propane gas terminal |
http://audubonportland.org/news/sept2-2014 |
“It is critical that the community has a full
understanding of this project’s enormous impacts and
safety risks, from the time the propane is removed from
the ground to when it is used overseas,” said Bob
Sallinger, Audubon Society of Portland conservation
director. |
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| Portland Mercury |
10/15/2014 |
A Clog in the Pipe, Environmental Rules Snare
Plans for Propane Terminal on the Columbia |
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/a-clog-in-the-pipe/Content?oid=13809648 |
The project, as currently envisioned, runs
afoul of the city's zoning code—specifically, the city's
rules for safeguarding sensitive wildlife along the
Columbia. And unless Portland City Council is willing to
slightly tweak those rules, at a hearing as soon as next
spring, then the project would be impossible to build. ;
Planning and code enforcement officials have been weighing
what seems like a fairly clean revision: adding pipes and
pipelines to that short list of exemptions. Except that's
not as easy as it seems. That kind of change in the zoning
code, without limits, could apply to land with similar
protections elsewhere in the city, farther up the Columbia
and around places like Balch and Johnson Creeks. |
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| AP |
1/8/2014 |
Train carrying oil derails, catches fire in
Canada |
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/freight-train-derails-canada-homes-evacuated-0 |
Of the 17 cars that derailed late Tuesday in
New Brunswick province, five contain crude oil and four
contain liquefied petroleum gas, officials said. Later
Wednesday, the Canadian National Railway said two of the
cars carrying liquefied petroleum gas and one car carrying
crude oil were on fire. |
| SeaCoastOnline,
Portsmouth NH |
4/27/2014 |
Propane train plan spurs downtown safety
concerns |
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20140327/News/403270377 |
State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark believes the
proposed increase in the number of trains carrying rail
cars filled with propane through the heart of the downtown
poses a risk to development along the rail line. "It seems
to me that it's a public safety issue for the new
developments downtown along the rail, including
HarborCorp," Fuller Clark said during an interview
Tuesday. ; Mayor Robert Lister said Wednesday that it is a
concern to have trains carrying propane "going by any
building at all." "I think it's worth a serious
conversation to think about public safety," Lister said,
noting he has concerns about the speed of the trains and
the condition of the tracks. |
| AP |
10/19/2013 |
Train carrying oil, gas derails west of
Edmonton |
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/train-carrying-oil-gas-derails-west-edmonton |
Canadian National spokesman Louis-Antoine
Paquin said 13 cars — four carrying petroleum crude oil
and nine loaded with liquified petroleum gas — came off
the tracks around 1 a.m. local time in the hamlet of
Gainford, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Edmonton.
Three cars began leaking and caught fire. |
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| Propane Spills |
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| Capital New York |
10/22/2014 |
Oil train shipper has propane spill in Albany |
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/10/8555147/oil-train-shipper-has-propane-spill-albany |
Same company that operates at Port Westward;
Because liquefied propane is hard to clean, Global burned
off gas that could not be recovered. The flames from the
burning off of the propane were still visible the next
morning and were about 8-feet high, according to county
officials. |
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| Pembina website |
11/5/2014 |
Pembina Pipeline Corporation Reports Third
Quarter 2014 Results |
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pembina-pipeline-corporation-reports-third-quarter-2014-results-281506561.html |
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