The tribe has taken the lead against local projects like oil terminals that would further climate change and threaten its existence.

Washington State Supreme Court overturns a lower court ruling that the Ocean Resources Management Act (ORMA) did not apply to oil shipping terminals.

State high court justices rule protections in vital coastal resources law applies

Final study of impacts released, finding significant and unavoidable threats to tribe, fishing, and public health

High court agrees to consider whether protections in a vital natural resources law apply

Groups applaud decision, caution oil spill threats from two remaining proposals persist

Leaders of the Quinault Indian nation, local fishermen and environmental groups condemn the omission of at least 32 substantial comments on a controversial project at Grays Harbor

Report submitted to the Washington Department of Ecology regarding planned crude-by-rail terminal

Letter to Department of Ecology on the Quinault Report

Concerned communities are fighting back.

Communities nationwide are rejecting fossil fuel export facilities.

Board holds projects need full evaluation of “oil spill risks, increase in rail and vessel traffic, and location of expanded facilities in areas of known natural resource and cultural sensitivity.”

State board to halt oil projects

In the past five years, there’s been a huge increase in oil extracted from the Bakken shale fields in North Dakota and a continued increase in Alberta tar sands production. To get the crude to market, more and more crude oil is being shipped around the country by 100-plus tanker car trains. Pipelines are expensive…

Full environmental review of “pipelines-on-wheels” requested