{"id":22100,"date":"2015-10-13T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/review-begins-for-shells-proposed-oil-by-rail-project\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:21:24","slug":"review-begins-for-shells-proposed-oil-by-rail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/review-begins-for-shells-proposed-oil-by-rail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Review begins for Shell&#8217;s proposed oil-by-rail project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANACORTES \u2014 <\/strong>Washington state and Skagit County officials are beginning an environmental review of a proposed oil-by-rail project at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery near Anacortes.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Dutch Shell wants to build a rail spur from existing railroad tracks to handle about 60,000 barrels of crude oil a day, or a maximum of six trains a week. Trains would bring crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to replace some of the supply Shell currently gets from Alaska\u2019s North Slope.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing is scheduled in Mount Vernon Tuesday as the state and Skagit County begin the first step of a lengthy review. Hearings are planned in Anacortes and Lynnwood.<\/p>\n<p>County officials concluded in 2013 that there weren\u2019t significant impacts from the project. But groups appealed and a county hearing examiner in February ruled a full review was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Shell appealed that examiner\u2019s decision but a Skagit County Superior Court judge dismissed Shell\u2019s lawsuit in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANACORTES \u2014 Washington state and Skagit County officials are beginning an environmental <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/review\/\">review<\/a> of a proposed oil-by-rail project at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery near Anacortes. Royal Dutch Shell wants to build a rail spur from existing railroad tracks to handle about 60,000 barrels of crude oil a day, or a maximum of six trains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22100"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}