Portland, OR – The Portland City Council has finalized plans to further reduce the amount of fossil fuels stored in aging bulk tanks at the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub along the Willamette River in Northwest Portland.
Thursday, the council passed a pair of ordinances requiring 11 bulk fuel terminals to draw down tank capacity by at least 20 percent, by 2036. The goal is to reduce the risk of catastrophic spills and fires during a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.
The area commonly referred to as the “tank farm” stretches for 6 miles along the river between the Fremont Bridge and Sauvie Island, and stores 90 percent of the state’s fossil fuel supply…