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By KIM MACKRAEL AND GRANT ROBERTSON   The Globe and Mail   Aug. 19 2014 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tsb-releases-final-report-on-lac-megantic-rail-disaster/article20106828/ A railway with a “weak safety culture” and a federal regulator that was asleep at the switch combined to bring about the worst accident … Continue reading →

Sign this petition to let the mayor know where we stand! http://www.change.org/petitions/mayor-rob-schroder-ban-the-use-of-neonicotinoids-and-glyphosate-in-martinez

“…each tank car of crude holds the energy equivalent of two million sticks of dynamite or the fuel in a wide body jetliner.” http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140522-714351.html By Russell Gold and Betsy Morris   Wall Street Journal   May 22, 2014 Emergency responders in Cincinnati … Continue reading →

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By Robert Rogers   Contra Costa Times   08/15/2014 http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_26345854/acid-spill-at-tesoro-refinery-near-martinez-blamed MARTINEZ — An 84,000-pound spill of sulfuric acid that burned two workers at Tesoro’s Golden Eagle refinery in February resulted from insufficient tightening between a tube and a compression joint in the … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: This basically says a CBR disaster is imminent. Government doesn’t respond to mere “fears”. By Tony Bizjak  Sacto Bee   Thursday, Jul. 24, 2014 http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/24/6581230/fire-officials-want-to-build-a.html Saying California’s emergency responders need more training to handle major calamities, state and local leaders are … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note – Too bad we citizens don’t get any real data on the sulfur dioxide release in Martinez. Was it worthy of a warning siren? I didn’t hear one. Shell Martinez Refinery Operating at Planned Rates After Work“Following maintenance activities, … Continue reading →

Influence Influence Recently I have been spending more time in city and county meetings where the topic is theoretically how local government will regulate the activity of a local refinery – which is actually a multi-national multi-billion dollar entity with … Continue reading →

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/10/6616446/chances-of-crude-oil-train-fire.html By Tony Bizjak   Sacto Bee   Aug. 10, 2014 In the middle of the night a year ago, a runaway train laden with crude oil derailed in a Canadian town, igniting a firestorm that killed 47 people, some of … Continue reading →

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