Community meeting on July 9 attended by over 70 Valero’s proposed rail terminal could significantly impact air emissions, public health, the Suisun Marsh, emergency response time, traffic, and noise. Could it also open the door to increase supplies of very high-sulfur, low-quality crude oil from Canada’s tar sands to Valero’s Benicia Refinery? Benicia Good Neighbor Steering … Continue reading Crude Consensus: A Community Meeting on Valero’s Proposed Rail Terminal→
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→
By Stephen Golub, June 18, 2024 On June 11, the City Council took the first step in a multi-stage process to put on the November ballot a vote on whether Benicia should adopt a Real Property Transfer Tax (RPTT) for the sale of real estate, be it residential, commercial or industrial. Kudos to the Council … Continue reading Stephen Golub: Kudos to the Council on the Potential Transfer Tax→
[BenIndy Contributor Kathy Kerridge: We’ve recently been reminded about the threat that Benicia and the rest of the Bay Area faced from crude by rail trains. We’re facing new threats now in the form of pipelines that will be carrying dangerous CO2, which is an asphyxiant in sufficient quantities. A new project called the “Montezuma … Continue reading ‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines→
