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Restore the Delta Public Meeting Tours: The Road Map to Stopping the Delta Tunnels
West Coast Deals Four Major Blows to Big Oil
Shell Martinez Refinery: “Large maintenance project” scheduled until mid-June
Air Pollution in the Bay Area’s Refinery Corridor
Twin Tunnels on Trial! BARoNA Tribunal in Antioch, April 30th
Category Archives: Refineries
Shell’s Role in Tar Sands & Climate Change
WHAT ARE TAR SANDS? Because fossil fuels are a finite resource, petroleum companies are now resorting to more extreme forms of oil extraction, including tar sands, fracking, and Arctic exploration. The “tar sands” are deposits of heavy crude oil trapped in sand … Continue reading
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What’s that giant pile of black dust near that unmarked facility near Franklin Canyon Road?
Why, that’s a Conoco-Phillips 27.3 MW generating power plant that runs on petroleum coke! So, those loose piles of black dust off to the side of Hwy 4 are piles of petroleum coke. Pet coke is a by-product of bitumen processing … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Refineries, Tar Sands
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State Department To Delay Keystone XL Pipeline Decision Until After November
BY RYAN KORONOWSKI APRIL 18, 2014 http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/18/3428625/keystone-delay-midterms/
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Shell’s Big Dirty Secret – Insight into the world’s most carbon intensive oil company…
“[Shell] is the largest oil operator in Nigeria, and [Shell] holds more acreage in Canada’s oil sands than any other corporation. Because of these facts, and several others, Shell is also the most carbon intensive oil company in the world. In short, … Continue reading
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Rally at Civic Center Plaza before Public Comment Hearing on Chevron EIR Tomorrow!
ALL HANDS ON DECK! Note new time: Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 5pmThe first Public Comment Hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Chevron “modernization” project will be Thursday, April 17th. We’re kicking the event off with … Continue reading
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Political Rifts Slow U.S. Effort on Climate Laws
By CORAL DAVENPORT APRIL 14, 2014 “Experts also note that a shift at the national level could come as more states enact climate change policies. Currently California and several Northeastern states, including New York, have enacted state-level programs to … Continue reading
BAAQMD Stationary Source Committee Meeting
April 21, 2014 at 9:30am – 12:30pmSupport CBE, APEN, NRDC, Sierra Club, the Sunflower Alliance and groups in the fenceline communities lobbying for a halt to refinery project permits and commenting on the draft Refinery Emissions Tracking rule. http://www.350bayarea.org/baaqmd_ssc_4-21-14?recruiter_id=2801
Posted in Come to Meetings, Refineries, SF Bay Delta, Tesoro
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SF International Film Festival – The Overnighters – April 28th & May 3rd
SF International Film Festival – The Overnighters – April 28th & May 3rd Documentary As our national Great Recession deepens and extends further on and farther out, Williston, North Dakota, is an honest-to-God boomtown. Flush with jobs from hydraulic fracturing … Continue reading
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenz
A worldwide extreme energy boom, modelled after Canada’s, is unleashing weapons of mass ecological destructionPosted by Martin Lukacs Wednesday 16 April 2014 theguardian.comhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/16/canada-becoming-launch-pad-of-a-global-tar-sands-and-oil-shale-frenzy
Posted in Climate Change, Fracking, Health, Refineries, Shell, Tesoro
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