Sacramento Bee Editorial: Oil trains require more safety and scrutiny

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

By the Editorial Board Published: Thursday, Apr. 3, 2014

as reported by The Benicia Independent

http://beniciaindependent.com/wp/sacramento-bee-editorial-calls-for-delay-in-crude-by-rail/

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Dirty Energy / Clean Solutions: Climate Conference 2014 May 9-11

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

http://www.350bayarea.org/climatecon2014

http://www.350bayarea.org/climatecon_2014_agenda

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Antonia Juhasz: DANGERS OF CRUDE BY RAIL

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

A comprehensive analysis of the hazards of and the reasons for crude by rail by the leading oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz, who places crude by rail in the the bigger picture context of the need for a just transition to fossil free alternatives. Juhasz is a policy-analyst, award winning journalist, and author of three books: including ‘The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must do to Stop It.’

This teach in contributed public education and awareness to the growing movement of community groups, environmental justice groups and climate justice groups taking on the fossil fuel industry in the Bay Area and current wave of opposition to explosive fracked or tar sands crude-by-rail trains in the Bay Area.

http://sunflower-alliance.org/

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Environmental groups look to halt shipment of crude by rail

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

By Rick Jones April 1, 2014

“If the BAAQMD board knew nothing about the permit, it should be embarrassed, and it should actually exercise its authority and hold its staff accountable to the community,” Communities for a Better Environment organizer Andres Soto told Earth First. “The BAAQMD’s hush-hush permitting process for the Kinder Morgan permit reinforces the high level of distrust that the community has towards the BAAQMD staff. They lied to us during the Chevron fire, and now we are seeing them make backroom deals with industry in their permitting.”

http://martinezgazette.com/archives/13201

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Environmental group forms in Martinez

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

By Guy Cooper April 2, 2014

http://martinezgazette.com/archives/13311

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Standing on Sacred Ground – Profit and Loss…Film & Discussion, April 4th

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

UC Berkeley – Dwinelle Hall 142

Berkeley, CA 94720

April 4, 2014 – 7:00pm

Free – Donations Accepted

From Papua New Guinea rainforests to Canada’s tar sands, Profit and Loss exposes industrial threats to native peoples’ health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world’s third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories—and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption.

Q&A with Idle No More’s Pennie Opal Plant and Toby McLeod

http://www.globalexchange.org/events/film-discussion-standing-sacred-ground-profit-and-loss

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SACRAMENTO OFFICIALS CONCERNED, WILL MEET WITH AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Martinez Environmental Group

APRIL 2, 2014 ROGER STRAW

Repost from The Sacramento Bee
[Editor: Excellent article by Bee reporters Bizjak & Tate. It’s encouraging that Sacramento is waking up to the threat of catastrophic accidents. We will want to keep an eye on the April 22 meeting of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. – RS]