Fossil fuels explode, which means fossil fuel trains can explode too, creating a blast zone of destruction. Unfortunately, we have a potential blast zone right here in Portland. Thousands of Portlanders live in Zenith’s blast … Read more
This week, Cedar Green, a coalition fighting fossil fuels in Oregon, is asking folks to write Mother’s Day cards and send them addressed to Dan Ryan and other City Commissioners urging them to: deny the … Read more
Join us by bike or car on Sunday, May 2nd, to gather postcards from North Portland to deliver to City Council about stopping Zenith’s tar sands oil export facility. We will meet at 1 pm … Read more
This month the City of Portland has the chance to deny Zenith a Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) as part of their application to Department of Environmental Quality for an air quality permit. Unfortunately, the … Read more
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, people from several local organizations organized by Cedar.Green (formerly Stop Zenith Collaborative), gathered at the stinky, polluting, ever-expanding Zenith Energy site. We then ran a car caravan, led by … Read more
Valentine’s Day message delivered! On Friday, February 19th the caravan starting at the Zenith site processed through the city to City Hall to deliver one more message to Stop the Zenith fossil fuel infrastructure. There … Read more
💞Break out your pink and red construction paper! 💞💞It’s Time to Make Valentines!💞 Since 2018, Zenith Energy’s Northwest Portland oil terminal has been unloading crude oil from trains, storing it in tanks and then sending it … Read more
From our friends at Breach Collective: On January 11, our allies at Willamette Riverkeeper and Columbia Riverkeeper filed a joint notice of intent to sue Zenith Energy over illegal and ongoing construction at its Portland … Read more
On May 13th, the Willamette Week reported that Zenith had quietly withdrawn its permit request to construct three new pipelines under Front Avenue. The City had denied that permit in fall of 2019 based on … Read more
Three XRPDX scientists had the honor and pleasure to meet author Robin Wall Kimmerer and two of her staff colleagues for over an hour in the Paramount lounge on March 24. Kimmerer has launched a … Read more