[Occupymendocino] Fw: "Stopping a Tar Sands Invasion, " Recent Blog Posts

[Ann Rennacker]

Oil fracking and refining still a problem for California and other States.

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Stopping a Tar Sands Invasion<http://facebook.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=fd5292554e&e=1710f064c5>
[East Bay Monthly, April 2017]

California refineries' capacity to "crack" heavy oil prompted the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2009 to remark that the Canadian tar sands are "the most promising source for California refineries" to replace dwindling current crude supplies over the long term. Oil refiners themselves have acknowledged as much. In 2013, Valero reported to investors on its "strategy" to refine "cost-advantaged crude oil" and its plan to bring that oil to its Benicia refinery by train, featuring a chart showing tar sands as the most cost-effective oil. The same year, a report by Phillips 66, which has a refinery in Rodeo, stated plans for "moving Canadian crudes down into California." Tesoro, which operates a refinery in Martinez, made a similar statement in a 2014 investors report. In 2015, the Canadian Association of Oil Producers published plans to send tar sands crude to California via pipeline, boat, and train.

So far, opposition by community groups has fended off most of the Bay Area refining industry's tar sands-oriented proposals even without the emissions caps. But it's uncertain how much longer these efforts can hold... [Click here to keep reading<http://facebook.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=a925d89a23&e=1710f064c5>.]





Despite California's Climate Policies, Its Oil Refining Sector Is Proportionately the World's Most Carbon-Intensive<http://facebook.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=cfe84523b2&e=1710f064c5>
[Blog post, 3/31/17]

California is one of the world's most important political arenas for climate change policy. In contrast to the Trump administration, which has begun to dismantle the federal government's existing climate change regulations, California officials are plotting out how to achieve a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 1990 levels by 2030 and have established cooperative programs with countries and states throughout the world to reduce atmospheric pollution.

California is also home to a massive oil industry, which has waged a multi-faceted campaign that includes lobbying, arm-twisting, and record-shattering levels of election campaign spending to soften state and regional climate programs as much as possible... [Click here to keep reading<http://facebook.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=224a7cf77c&e=1710f064c5>.]





Building Trades Union Asks Trump to Fast-Track First-Ever US Pacific Coast LNG Terminal, 25 Other Infrastructure Projects<http://facebook.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=8624ee18f6&e=1710f064c5>
[Blog post, 4/3/17]

In mid-February, representatives of North America’s Building Trades Unions<http://facebook.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=35ed755395&e=1710f064c5> presented President Donald Trump a list of 26 infrastructure projects for which they are requesting fast-track regulatory approval, McClatchey reported last week<http://facebook.us14.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=9d5d2019ba&e=1710f064c5>.  The list includes six major oil and gas pipelines, including at least two that have engendered major opposition from impacted local residents on grounds similar to the Dakota Access Pipeline. [Click here to keep reading<http://facebook.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b0b9f92c17b6d1f711d05db0f&id=591e9899a2&e=1710f064c5>.]






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