Understand that the newsletter by Vancouver Energy (Tesoro-Savage), recently mailed to Clark County households, is nothing more than an advertising flier, a sales pitch. It is Big Oil trying to sell residents here on a huge crude oil terminal at our Port of Vancouver, something our community truly doesn’t want, doesn’t need and shouldn’t have. The dollar and jobs figures shown are made-up ones; the public survey findings, alleging support, cannot be trusted. Does anyone seriously believe that a survey sponsored by Big Oil will return findings other than supporting Big Oil?
Tesoro-Savage may have sold their stinking, dangerous project to self-serving Port of Vancouver officials. They have not sold it to the rest of the citizens here — far from it. This oil terminal project for Vancouver Energy is about one thing, profit for them. The local benefits claimed are poorly balanced against real health, safety and quality-of-life sacrifices those living here will have to make once an oil terminal is built and operating.
This brochure — junk mail — pitches you to believe the oil terminal is good news. It is not. You should buy neither the sales pitch nor the oil terminal.
Ronald Morrison
Vancouver
