Engineer says root problem behind Ferndale propane tank isn’t the tank — it’s a patchwork of regulations - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Engineer says root problem behind Ferndale propane tank isn’t the tank — it’s a patchwork of regulations - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Wendy Hiester, a retired chemical engineer, Orcas Island resident and former engineering superintendent at the BP Cherry Point Refinery, said in an interview with the Islands’ Sounder that the real issue behind the aging propane storage tank at the AltaGas Cherry Point terminal is not the tank itself, but a gap in Washington state’s regulatory system that allows facilities handling refinery-scale volumes of hazardous chemicals to escape the over…