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Weyerhaeuser doesn't know exactly when it will start exporting logs out of the Port of Olympia, but it does plan to start making its lease payments to the the port this month, The Olympian reports.
The export facility was supposed to move from the Port of Tacoma to Olympia two years ago.
From the story:
The Weyerhaeuser Co. is scheduled this week to make its first lease payment to the Port of Olympia for a controversial log-export business whose start has been delayed two years because of court challenges.
A Weyerhaeuser spokesman last week was unable to make a specific prediction about when the Federal Way-based timber company would start exporting logs, as planned, to Japan.
Still, Weyerhaeuser’s first payment to the port is significant, spokesman Frank Mendizabal said.
“It is a milestone in the sense that we are moving forward with the project,” he said. “This is just another step on that path.”
The company signed a five-year lease with the port in 2005. At that time, Weyerhaeuser expected to begin export operations after relocating from Tacoma by summer 2006.
Activists concerned about the environmental effects of the business challenged the plan. They sued for records maintained by Weyerhaeuser and the port before the lease was signed, challenged the use of port peninsula land for the export operation and argued that insufficient environmental study of the project had been done by the port.
Opponents of the approval process challenged studies of the project’s noise, effects on traffic, air and water quality, and effects from light from possible nighttime operations. The port and Weyerhaeuser have prevailed in court on almost all of the challenges, but more remain.
The port’s lease requires Weyerhaeuser to pay monthly $73,500 payments to the port.
