I am against the oil terminal for a lot of reasons. Oil is cheap now and basic economics says we should be importing as much as possible. It seems like bad economics and poor planning to export a finite resource with such high and lasting demand and value. An industrialized country becomes a Third World country when it exports any raw material rather than a finished product made from it. Look at Aberdeen/Hoquiam and Longview/Kelso in Washington, or Fort Bragg, Calif.
It is now legal to export crude oil. That means we have to bid on the world market for our own natural resource.
I grew up in New Jersey and saw a lot of oil-tank farm fires. The smoke plume would blot out Vancouver and most of the surrounding area and it is impossible to put that type of fire out. The soot fallout would be catastrophic.
The fishing was nonexistent near the tank farms and refineries.
As to the question of not trusting science; that’s a smokescreen. There are accidents everyday on the most sophisticated equipment.
