Chinook Ventures, long a thorn in the side of Washington agencies that oversee clean air and water laws, has now arrived in Oregon.
The Port of Astoria, Ore., has leased part of North Tongue Point’s Pier 2 to a 450-foot cement barge, Katie B, owned by Chinook Ventures Inc. of Longview, Wash.
Chinook Ventures was fined $40,000 in February for a mile-long spill of petroleum coke into the Columbia River. Last year, the company was fined $150,000 by Washington Department of Ecology for not having the proper permits to handle hazardous materials near the Columbia.