A federal report on the April 2010 Tesoro refinery explosion that killed seven has again been delayed and frustrates U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, but after he wrote the U.S. Chemical Safety Board asking it to keep promises made to the citizens of Anacortes, the government seems to be listening.
L a r s e n , D-Wash., said he was “exasperated” when he learned a public meeting in Anacortes this month to discuss the Tesoro report had been canceled. And he wasn’t happy when the Chemical Safety Board changed a public hearing to release the report’s findings and recommendations into a “listening session” on Thursday, Jan. 30, giving almost no time for the public to read the report.
In his letter, Larsen urged Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso to release the report and give the public time to consider its findings.
“The Anacortes community deserves better after four years of waiting and countless delays from CSB,” Larsen wrote Friday.