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90% of liquid fuel in #Oregon arrives through an industrial neighborhood in NW #Portland. This neighborhood is a mashup of rickety, aging fuel tanks, pipeline terminals from refineries, and tanker cars carrying fuel away.

If/when an earthquake hits, this critical energy infrastructure hub, just north of downtown, will likely dump 193.7 million gallons of oil into the Willamette and Columbia Rivers --- potentially the worst environmental disaster in US history.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-9/preventing-the-next-fukushima/