BREAKING NEWS … Valero Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) now available for download June 17, 2014, 8:30am The City of Benicia posted the downloadable version of the Valero Crude By Rail Draft EIR this morning. The print and digital copies will be made available at the Benicia Planning Department later in the day. The DEIR … Continue reading Valero Draft EIR now available for download
[Editor: I received the following document from a volunteer for Benicians For a Safe and Healthy Community. It is a letter from Valero of Canada, addressed to a consultation in Canada nearly a year after the disaster in Lac-Mégantic. Participants were scratching their heads about who is liable and who pays when a billion-dollar cleanup … Continue reading Valero Canada: ‘We don’t want to pay for cleanup’
Repost from The Benicia Herald [Editor: See also coverage in The Sacramento Bee – RS] Long-awaited Valero crude-by-rail EIR delayed again June 9, 2014 by Donna Beth Weilenman A draft of the city’s environmental impact report (EIR) for the Valero Crude-by-Rail use permit request was due to be released Tuesday, but a last-minute staff decision … Continue reading Long-awaited Valero crude-by-rail EIR delayed again
Repost from The Sacramento Bee [Editor: A MUST READ – excellent background piece. Note multiple references to uprail communities’ concerns about Valero’s Crude By Rail proposal. – RS] Crude oil rail transports to run through Sacramento region By Tony Bizjak, June 7, 2014 Sacramento’s history as a rail town is long and rich. A potential new … Continue reading Sacramento region deeply concerned about Valero Crude By Rail