CEI Hub-Bub
The next time you fill up your car or board a plane at PDX, ask yourself where that fuel came from. For about 90% of Oregon, the answer is a six-mile stretch of Northwest Portland along the Willamette, tucked below Forest Park: the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub. Hundreds of storage tanks, most built before modern seismic codes, sitting on dredged-up river soil that geologists expect to liquefy when Cascadia hits.
For years this was an issue only emergency managers and neighborhood activists lost sleep over. Not anymore. City Council has deadlocked 6–6 on it more than once, Mayor Wilson…
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