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The next public hearing about the giant oil terminal planned for the Port of Vancouver is happening tomorrow.

The proposed $210 million oil terminal that Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company, LLC and Savage Companies want to build at the Port of Vancouver would be the largest oil terminal in the country, capable of handling 360,000 barrels of crude per day that would be shipped via mile-plus-long trains into the port.

The companies joined together to form Vancouver Energy, the company in charge of the project. Vancouver Energy claims the crude that would come through the Tesoro-Savage terminal—which would come from the Bakken formation—would be a "lower carbon" option, but the numbers they cite to support that claim have recently been challenged as "lacking numbers and appropriate citation."

Starting at 1pm at the Clark County Events Center at the Fairgrounds, anyone who'd like to speak in opposition (or support) of the project will have their chance. Here's a Facebook events page about the hearing.

Vancouver City Council announced it's officially opposed to the project, as Portland City Council. In November, Portland commissioners voted unanimously to approve a resolution opposing all oil-by-rail projects in and around Portland and Vancouver.

Environmental groups such as Columbia Riverkeeper, the Audubon Society of Portland, and others have also announced their opposition to the project. Washington Governor Jay Inslee has the final say about whether or not the terminal is built.