Editor Roger Straw is on leave for the month of January. Here are a few current links provided by Google on crude by rail, oil trains and the climate.
Summary of news on oil trains, January 1, 2016 (Google)
Top oil train stories from 2015 PublicSource
A Bloomberg analysis of federal data shows that 2015 was the costliest year for crude oil train derailments, with $29.7 million in damages — a big …
Danger in Dilbit Fort Worth Weekly
A new tar sands study finds serious problems with the world’s dirtiest hydrocarbon. Diluted bitumen, dilbit, is made from combining tar sands (tar mixed with … would have carried diluted bitumen from the tar sands quarries of Alberta, …
2016: What to Look for in Energy and Climate Climate Central
Growth in emissions from burning fossil fuels halted in 2015 partly because of the global boom in renewable energy — a big deal for the climate …
Koch funds various interest groups DesMoinesRegister.com
NBCC didn’t say: The study was funded by fossil fuel interests, nor that local chambers of commerce and the U.S. Black Chamber of Commerce …
The Benicia Independent is a one-person operation, and I’m it. I’ve been at it for over two and a half years, mostly without a break. So here’s wishing you a happy holiday and serving notice – I’m taking some time off.
In fact, I have been recruited by my sweetheart and life companion to help prepare a final draft of her book prior to publication, so I might be missing a few deadlines in the month of January. I promise to post any major news on Benicia’s Valero Crude By Rail proposal, and I’ll post any breaking news on oil train derailments. But other than that, I may need to leave you to Googling for climate news and other crude by rail stories.
See you in February!
Roger Straw
The Benicia Independent
Editor and publisher
Repost from CREDO Action [UPDATE – make that 67,883 letters as of midday, 12/28/5! – RS]
Stop the Tesoro-Savage oil-by-rail export terminal
Stop the Tesoro-Savage oil-by-rail export terminal
This week, Congress give Big Oil a huge holiday gift: lifting the four-decades-old ban on crude oil exports.1 With the ink still drying on the landmark Paris climate agreement, this is a significant setback that could promote U.S. drilling and increase carbon emissions.
That makes it more important than ever to stop the next step in Big Oil’s plans: building huge terminals to export more crude overseas, like the massive Tesoro-Savage oil train terminal proposed in Vancouver, Washington.
Tesoro-Savage would be the largest oil-by-rail facility in North America,2 shipping up to 360,000 barrels per day of crude to be burned across the world — making the project nearly half the size of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Washington officials are now taking public comments on the plan. Washington Governor Jay Inslee has shown strong climate leadership, and it’s vital to let him know that people in Washington, and across the country are standing against this project.
Stop the Tesoro-Savage oil train terminal. Click here to submit a public comment now.
Tesoro-Savage’s 360,000 barrels per day of crude would be carried across the country from North Dakota to Washington in dangerous, explosive oil trains, posing a huge risk to public safety every step of the way to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.
And the damage to the climate affects all of us. Once massive oil infrastructure projects like pipelines and export terminals have been built, they keep running for decades. But when we stop them, we can help keep carbon in the ground.3
In Paris, the world signaled a historic consensus on moving away from fossil fuels. The last thing Governor Jay Inslee or the United States should do is allow oil companies to hijack that agreement by keeping the world market hooked on the oil that poses an existential threat to all of us.
Please reject the Tesoro-Savage oil-by-rail terminal. The project poses serious risks to the people of Washington State, everyone living along an oil train route, and the entire country by allowing oil companies to sell more fossil fuels overseas. Building the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America for yesterday’s energy is the wrong path to meet today’s energy needs. This project would jeopardize Washington State’s leadership in moving away from fossil fuels and towards clean, renewable energy solutions.
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