On Facebook: facebook.com/events/834097813284056/ Download, print and distribute the FLYER Big Oil Trains: Derailing Community Safety A forum about increased rail accidents, refinery dangers, and climate change. How will refinery expansions and transportation of crude oil by rail affect YOUR town? A panel of experts and activists will inform residents of Benicia, Martinez, Rodeo, Crockett and Port … Continue reading Panel of Experts meeting in Martinez Feb. 26→
Repost from the Martinez News-Gazette Big Oil In Our Midst forum scheduled Dear Editor, In 2013, Lac Megantic, Quebec, a town in Canada structured much like Martinez with a railway running through its downtown, suffered a devastating explosion and fire from derailed tank cars destroying much of the downtown and killing 47 people. Three proposed … Continue reading Martinez City Council and public invited to forum on Big Oil→
Repost from The Press Democrat Bay Area refineries dwarf Sonoma County industries’ toxic output By GUY KOVNER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 3:51 p.m. Sonoma County industries produce a minuscule amount of the nearly 32 million pounds of toxic chemicals released in California in 2012, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection … Continue reading Bay Area refineries released 3.4 million pounds of toxics in 2012→
Repost from DeSmogBlog Permit Shows Bakken Shale Oil in Casselton Train Explosion Contained High Levels of Volatile Chemicals On January 2, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a major safety alert, declaring oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Bakken Shale may be more chemically explosive than the agency or industry previously admitted publicly. This alert … Continue reading Good information on the nature of Bakken crude→
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