BY STEVEN MUFSON AND JULIET EILPERIN March 20 at 11:59 am
By Christin Ayers, general assignment reporter for KPIX 5 Eyewitness News.
March 20, 2014 12:19 AM
Panel will host community forum on oil-by-rail plan
By Tony Burchyns (Vallejo) Times-Herald
http://contracostatimes.ca.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=1a54ec6fc
Influence of refinery denied By Tom Lochner tlochner@bayareanewsgroup.com
http://contracostatimes.ca.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=120affcd0
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) will host the State Refinery Task Force Information Session. The public meeting will be held from 6:00 to 7:30 PM at the City of Richmond’s City Council Chambers, located at 440 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA 94804.
CalEPA formed this Task Force on refinery safety in August 2013 and its members consist of ten state agencies, U.S. EPA, and local agencies from areas of California that contain refineries. This session is the first of many public meetings to be held throughout the state by the Task Force. The session is intended to inform the public about the activities of the Governor’s Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety since the August 6, 2012 Chevron Fire. For more information about the Task Force’s membership and goals, please visit: http://calepa.ca.gov/refinery/
Attached, please find the State Refinery Task Force Information Session flier in English, Spanish, Chinese and Lao. For questions regarding language assistance or services, please call Sonam Shah-Paul at 415-749-5089.
For more information, please visit the Air District website at http://baaqmd.gov/Divisions/Compliance-and-Enforcement/State-Refinery-Task-Force.aspx or the CalEPA website at http://calepa.ca.gov/refinery/.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Issues Proposed Civil Penalties to Three Companies Feb. 4, 2014
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In response to the recent open community forum at the Benicia Public Library on Valero’s Crude by Rail Project, sponsored by Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community, Valero is holding a closed door, screened meeting to try and hoodwink the community to be in favor of its project. They have sent out invitations to some members of the community to attend. The catch is, in order to attend you ARE REQUIRED TO RSVP.
This meeting is being held at the highly secure, Ironworker’s Union building right next to Valero. Expect security to be tight. Please help us at this meeting and show your opposition. It’s going to be packed with proponents for the crude by rail project and we need all the support you can provide.
You must RSVP:
Date: Monday, March 24, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 7:45 p.m.
Where: Ironworkers Union, Local 378, 3120 Bayshore Road, Benicia, CA
Help Stop WesPac!
March 20, 2014 at 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Yacht Club, 3 Marina Blvd, Pittsburg, CA
Find out more and meet other concerned residents. Food will be served!
Last Thursday night KPIX aired a great investigative piece. Kinder Morgan has a crude oil rail terminal in Richmond that flew under the radar, and was discovered from a statement in an investor report. KPIX went out there, saw crude oil in the DOT-111 railcars being unloaded into trucks, and followed the trucks to the badly behaved Tesoro refinery in Martinez.
Today brings us a little bit more information from the CC Times. In an article entitled “Huge increase in crude oil by rail to Bay Area concerns local leaders“, we learn that Kinder Morgan quietly got a permit last month to transfer oil from rail cars to trucks, and we find out that Bay Area “volume of crude by rail increased 57 percent during 2013, from 74,332 barrels in January to 116,657 barrels in December” with 85% of that from North Dakota – in other words, it’s…
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Free admission
7:00 p.m. Profit and Loss
8:00 p.m. Q&A with Idle No More’s Pennie Opal Plant and Toby McLeod
Berkeley , CA
Martinez Environmental Group 