By BenIndy, July 19, 2024 On June 25, 2024, the Solano County Board of Supervisors directed County staff to prepare a report on the proposed “Rezoning of 17,500 acres of Land in East Solano County to Allow the Development of a New Community” Initiative, aka California Forever’s East Solano Plan. The report, as outlined in … Continue reading Executive Summary of the Solano County Impact Report for East Solano Plan→
Valero Benicia Refinery was first in line, buys a shipload of Canadian tar sands crude, receiving it along the Strait The Benicia Independent, July 2, 2024 Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline is in its first month of supplying heavy tar sands crude from Edmonton to Canada’s west coast. According to a July 1 Reuters article (see … Continue reading Benicia escaped the peril of Tar Sands Crude by rail; now it’s on the Carquinez Strait→
[BenIndy: Here we go!] NPR, by Adhiti Bandlamudi, June 11, 2024 The campaign to build a city from scratch in Solano County submitted enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot, election officials said Tuesday. The Solano County Registrar of Voters spent a month reviewing over 20,000 signatures turned in by California Forever, the … Continue reading California Forever’s Bid to Build a New City Qualifies for November Ballot→
