The Community Holds Chevron Accountable - No More Pollution in Richmond!
Our health and lives should not be compromised in the name of Chevron's profit.
Chevron is seeking to expand its Richmond refinery through a project that will result in increased pollution, despite the fact that the City's residents are already poisoned by disproportionately high levels of toxins from Chevron and 350 other industrial facilities. This kind of environmental injustice is unacceptable!
Chevron's Final Environmental Impact Report fails to disclose, analyze or mitigate the environmental impacts from the project. Chevron has provided incomplete and inconsistent information to various governmental and regulating agencies, including the City of Richmond, the lead agency responsible for environmental review of the project.
Because the missing information does not allow for full public review, determination, and mitigation of the project's potential environmental and health impacts, we are calling on the City of Richmond to reject the Final Environmental Impact Report and recirculate a Draft EIR once the project's environmental impacts are disclosed. We demand environmental justice now!
Our health and lives should not be compromised in the name of Chevron's profit.
Chevron is seeking to expand its Richmond refinery through a project that will result in increased pollution, despite the fact that the City's residents are already poisoned by disproportionately high levels of toxins from Chevron and 350 other industrial facilities. This kind of environmental injustice is unacceptable!
Chevron's Final Environmental Impact Report fails to disclose, analyze or mitigate the environmental impacts from the project. Chevron has provided incomplete and inconsistent information to various governmental and regulating agencies, including the City of Richmond, the lead agency responsible for environmental review of the project.
Because the missing information does not allow for full public review, determination, and mitigation of the project's potential environmental and health impacts, we are calling on the City of Richmond to reject the Final Environmental Impact Report and recirculate a Draft EIR once the project's environmental impacts are disclosed. We demand environmental justice now!
Chevron is seeking to expand its Richmond refinery through a project that will result in increased pollution, despite the fact that the City%u2019s residents are already poisoned by disproportionately high levels of toxins from Chevron and 350 other industrial facilities. This kind of environmental injustice is unacceptable!
Chevron%u2019s project would expand its highly polluting refining processes to make gasoline from cheaper, lower quality crude and gas oils. Chevron has not disclosed how much these processes would expand, or how much dirtier its new oil feedstock would be. This project would allow Chevron to process cheaper, more contaminated oil and harm the health of Richmond residents for the next 30-50 years!
Technical research recently conducted at Communities for a Better Environment concluded that the planned changes to the refinery could increase releases of mercury, selenium, and carbon dioxide as well as sulfurous flare emissions by up to 5-50 times the refinery%u2019s current levels.
Other impacts from refining dirtier crude oil include increased daily pollution, bigger refinery spills, fires and explosions, and bigger flaring episodes. Richmond residents will have to face the consequences of increased pollution and toxic emissions, exacerbating the City%u2019s high cancer and child-asthma rates.
Chevron%u2019s Final Environmental Impact Report fails to disclose, analyze or mitigate the environmental impacts from the project. Chevron has provided incomplete and inconsistent information to various governmental and regulating agencies, including the City of Richmond, the lead agency responsible for environmental review of the project.
Because the missing information does not allow for full public review, determination, and mitigation of the project's potential environmental and health impacts, we are calling on the City of Richmond to reject the Final Environmental Impact Report and recirculate a Draft EIR once the project's environmental impacts are disclosed. We demand environmental justice now!
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Every human being has a right to clean air to breath and water to drink. I was in Richmond on the first Sat. in May and immediately could smell the air, yes smell it.....Chevron must not be allowed to pollute our air anymore than it already has.
The fumes from the refinery have been making me sick all weekend, they seem to be getting worse, despite the fact that there is supposed to be discussion happening before expansion, it is expanding. Will it be too late before people come before these pitiful profits?
Citizens have a right to know exactly what the enviornmental impact will be during the expansion of a chemical processing center like Chevron. Health and safety is the priority and right of every American citizen and this information and research must be demanded and reviewed.
Please let's help the Planet! ! !
Environmental justice now! We do no need more air, wail and ground pollution.
The injustices that have occurred will not go unnoticed and we will continue to fight against environmental destruction caused by companies like Chevron. Also, Chevron will no longer be allowed to prey on innocent lives who are being denied important information.
Time has come for corporations stop thinking only about profits, and realize that the well being of the people of Richmond is more important.
Our environment is the most important thing. Please take care of it Chevron. I want my children and my children's children to have a healthy place to live. -Nicole Marchand
Please respect the human rights of the citizens of your city, and put them and their health before the greedy, corporate interests of the oil industry.
The residents of Richmond have the right to know if their lives are being put in danger. Chevron needs to be held accountable at all costs.
Chevron is making profits off an industry that is polluting the entire earth and destroying precious life. The Richmond population suffers grave health disparities due to the pollution from the refinery. The minority population of Richmond are victims of environmental racism and Chevron needs to be met with some real opposition in order to curb their negative effects on the world.
I hope by signing this, companies like Chevron realize the negative effects they have on communities like Richmond.
We are sick of dirty corporations dumping on our communities and then raking billion$ per year doing it-- Chevron! I have a vision of our communities without you. It's just a matter of time.
After over 100 years in the City of Richmond Chevron needs to be told, No More: Pollution, Accidents, Flaring, Tax reduction, Dirty Politics, War Profitering, Support of Dictators, Filling elected officials wallets. Recirculate the EIR.
I DEMAND to know the FULL TRUTH. I do NOT believe Chevron is expanding solely to upgrade old equipment; I believe and have read written reports to this effect that Chevron want to refine more toxic dirtier crude oil which they are NOT allowed to now. We need the FULL TRUTH.
I am deeply concerned about the pollution to our air and water. I do not support the mining of Tar sands in Alberta and refining by Chevron. Cap the Crude slate, no dirty crude expansion of Chevron! Please make the best decision for our health and for environmental justice from Richmond to Alberta.
I work in Richmond. I am very concerned since air pollution will affect the residential community even more than it affects me and my co-workers.
