Foss moves ahead with Shell Oil plans despite city, port call for delay
In other words "Fuck you and your rules".
Shell's Oil rigs are coming to the Port of Seattle this week, even if their presence doesn't comply with land use permits.
Foss Maritime Co. has no plans to delay Shell Oil’s exploratory drilling rigs' arrival at the Port of Seattle's Terminal 5, even after port commissioners informed the company Tuesday that Shell’s presence does not comply with land use permits.
Foss' lease of Terminal 5, which the port approved months ago, became divisive among Seattleites almost overnight. Over the past few months, regularly scheduled port commission meetings have been filled with people hoping to publicly testify – both in support of the lease and against it.
Terminal 5 is undergoing a modernization project expected to last until 2018 that will enable it to better cater to big ships. During the construction period, the Port of Seattle was looking for a way to continue making money off the land. It reached out to local businesses and eventually signed a lease agreement with Foss Maritime, which then made a deal with Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co.
The $13.17 million deal would allow Shell to use Terminal 5 as a home base for eight of its vessels that would then travel to the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic to drill.
But after five environmental groups sued the port, saying it needed an environmental impact statement before the lease could be approved, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray stepped in. The city's Department of Planning and Development reviewed the port's permits and announced earlier this month that Shell's presence did not comply with current permits.
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