Environment
Port Westward Advanced One Permit File At A Time
Grail's EFSC exemption order to Haley Teach's Oct. 8, 2024 401 hearing deck to the Corps' current EIS docket, with each agency handling a different permit question on a different schedule.
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The Port Westward Emergency Story Runs Through Narrow Roads And Shared Responders
The project's emergency burden would run through existing public roads and shared spill-response systems, which makes emergency readiness part of the real Port Westward record.
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NEXT's Air Permit Measured The Plant, Not The Full Port Westward Footprint
DEQ told commenters that trains and marine vessels are "secondary emissions not considered in this stationary source permitting action." The Army Corps Draft EIS later treated those movements as central project facts.
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The Port Westward Fight Runs Through A Working Levee And Drainage System
Beaver Drainage Improvement Company told regulators the mitigation plan would fill about 26,800 linear feet of existing drainage ditches used for irrigation and drainage across more than 2,700 acres.
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Port Westward Risk Does Not Stop At The Fence Line
DEQ's 401 certification places the proposed discharge path in waters connected to McLean Slough and the Clatskanie River. DEQ also lists existing dissolved oxygen, temperature, dioxin, total dissolved gas, PCB, and DDE impairments in the receiving-water system.