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New tenant at the port of Olympia

Submitted by Rick on Tue, 08/23/2005 - 2:29pm.

The Tacoma News Tribune reports that Weyerhaeuser is to switch ports from Tacoma to Olympia. TNT reports that the new tenant will:

• Generate about 38 jobs and an additional 17 longshore positions, according to Kari Qvigstad, the Port of Olympia’s marketing and business development director. Twenty-three longshore members, plus added casual workers, now work at the port.
• Bring in an estimated $1.47 million in revenue a year.
• Provide the port with some tenant stability. The port and Weyerhaeuser will sign a five-year lease, with options to extend it after that, Qvigstad said.

The price tag for Olympia:

The Port of Olympia plans to do $4 million worth of improvements to the site before Weyerhaeuser moves in. The port commission was scheduled to approve the lease at its meeting Monday night.

No story in The Olympian (as of Tuesday 2:30pm).

[update 4:00pm]
The Olympian article is here. (Thanks Khaos).

weyerhauser violates environmental law

Submitted by khaos on Tue, 08/23/2005 - 2:56pm.

The Olympian article is at http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050820/NEWS/508200354 Weyerhauser's plans for the Port of Oly will not go unchallenged by the local environmental community, which is getting active again after a period of dormancy. The following is from the email list for the TESC Environmental Resource Center. "Weyerhaeuser is responsible for logging old growth, not practicing sustainable logging and funds research for GM Trees. Recently at a stockholder meeting, Steven Rogel, the CEO of Weyerhaeuser, held a meeting where the stockholders were not allowed to directly ask him questions. Instead he opt to answer preselected questions about the company. Weyerhaeuser's current practices are undemocratic, unsustainable and harmful to the environment... Blair Anundson from WashPIRG sent me more good/disgusting information about Weyerhaeuser: 'Weyerhaeuser is also a serial violator of Washington state clean water laws. In fact, their Yakima paper facility violated clean water laws 74 times in 2002. Unfortunately, they were never fined or reprimanded by the state DOE because of their influence in Olympia. Check out http://www.washpirg.org to find out more.'"

Port decisions

Submitted by Rick on Tue, 08/23/2005 - 3:53pm.

How open were the deliberations and negotiations for bringing Weyerhaeuser to Olympia? Was there a notification process? Input from the public?

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