Vancouver gives oil terminal proposal big environmental hurdle

Environmental groups are celebrating the city of Vancouver’s decision to require a full environmental assessment for a project to convert a bulk terminal at the Port of Vancouver into an oil-by-rail one.

NuStar Energy wants to handle about 22,000 barrels of crude per day at what is now a bulk terminal. The project has been largely eclipsed by the far-larger play by Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies to handle 360,000 barrels per day at its Vancouver Energy project, now being reviewed by Washington’s…