The Oregon governor released a review urging the state to institute a fee on rail cars moving oil and other hazardous material to fund oil train safety preparedness.
The Oregon governor released a review urging the state to institute a fee on rail cars moving oil and other hazardous material to fund oil train safety preparedness.
The report, the culmination of a five-month, top-to-bottom review of oil train readiness Kitzhaber ordered in February, shows Oregon has a lot to do before it can claim to be prepared for oil trains already crossing the state.
But on the review’s key point — finding the money to pay for needed fixes — the governor stopped well short of offering concrete details. His review concludes that Oregon should “consider” a per-barrel fee on crude oil arriving by rail in the state. Just how much? It doesn’t say.
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