If you think any of these projects were ever intended to help anyone in Grays Harbor County, that's where you're losing me, toobad. Grays Harbor's economy has been in shambles for a long time, and it's never motivated anyone in government or the private sector to take action to avoid a collapse. This is about big profits for big oil, with a side of big carbon tax revenues for the State. For sure, it was sold as jobs, jobs, jobs, but that's never been the motive, and it certainly wouldn't be the long-term outcome.

To Rivrguy's point, it's also about an alternative to blocked pipeline projects. We're not anywhere near ready to get off oil, so to say one or the other is coming our way seems only honest, much as I hate to say it. Pipelines aren't stellar stewards of environments or safety, either, but they have a much safer track record than oil trains....