First Name | Katt |
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Last Name | Ramos |
Email Address | katt@cbecal.org |
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Subject | Low Carbon Fuel Standard |
Comment | Our community in Richmond has lost too many elders, grandparents, and children to countless terminal illnesses and health conditions connected to their living in proximity to one of the biggest polluters in California, the Chevron oil refinery. We have lost cultural histories and some future elders to the toxic impact from this global fossil fuel giant, while being told to wait for our chance to be repaired and protected with new cleaner solutions to the impact on our air and soil and water, and every day lives. What is protective or repairative about an incentive plan filled with "solutions" from the industry that has put us on this destructive path to begin with????? We took time to plan and invite you to our community to show you the direct impacts to our children's lungs and tiny vulnerable bodies, to share with you our solutions as a community to survive and thrive. AND yet --- what you propose is going to incentivize carbon capture sequestration plans from oil refineries that are literally killing us. The only future for Richmond under these plans brings more flaring and the potential for another MASSIVE explosion where no hospital exists for miles. What will our death toll be then??? Shall we bury our dead on the 3000 acres of land Chevron occupies in Richmond? I challenge you all to do better and align with the communities and workers that continue to suffer. Decision making bodies like yours are proposing to allow those who have violated our bodies and communities to do so for many more years by incentivizing alternative fuels and allowing CCS projects to use our communities as guinea pigs for the foreseeable future. Anything less than community centered solutions is a betrayal of our communities and all those we have lost due to environmental racism which you will continue to allow with your plan. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2023-09-28 09:15:42 |
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