Department of Environmental Quality. Of these proposals one company, 

 Columbia Independent Refinery, Inc., has since cancelled its plans to 

 build a 50,000 b/d plant at Portland. 10 A second firm, Charter Energy 

 Co., has not decided whether to build a 52,400 b/d refinery at St. 

 Helens. 11 But a third company, Cascade Energy, has announced that it 

 will begin construction of a 30,000 b/d refinery on an 85-acre site 

 acquired from the Port of St. Helens by the end of 1976. The Cascade 

 refinery will process crude oil brought in by tanker and will have 

 docking facilities capable of handling 230,000 bbl vessels. 12 The 

 refinery will be equipped with desulfurization units and may use Alaskan 

 north slope crude. 13 



Tho Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) is the 

 principal state agency in Oregon involved in OCS and coastal management. 

 The Commission has formulated some draft goals and guidelines dealing 

 with petroleum development on the continental shelf. These goals and 

 guidelines recommend: 



(1) Giving clear priority to the management and protection of 

 renewable resources over the development of non-renewable 

 resources like petroleum. 



(2) Establishing permit-review procedures which require a developer 

 wanting to explore, extract, store or transfer petroleum on 

 the continental shelf to (1) specify the methods and equipment 

 to be used; (2) finance the cost of monitoring and inspecting 

 such operations; (3) use the best pollution abatement technology 

 available; (4) be held liable for individual or public damage; 



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