Article by Ted Land, KING 5 News: 24 Feb 2015
SEATTLE — The Port of Seattle got quite the earful, Tuesday from a group opposed to offshore oil drilling.
They’re irate that the port is doing business with Shell, which plans to use Terminal 5, near West Seattle, as a launching point as it prepares to drill in the Arctic.
“It appears the port has forgotten that it’s a public agency entrusted with making decisions in the general public interest,” said Peter Goldman, an environmental attorney who was among more than a dozen people to testify at the port commission meeting.