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DESCRIPTION:In the wake of a spate of disastrous oil train derailments, the Bay Area is 
 joining communities across North America next week to say NO to crude 
 oil-by-rail in our cities. \n\nOn July 6, 2013, an oil train explosion 
 wrecked the town of Lac Mégantic, Québec, killing 47 people and opening 
 up the continent’s eyes to the destructive reality of extreme energy 
 transport. \n\nRecently, an NBC News Analysis found that in 2014, oil 
 trains derailed more often than in any year since federal record-keeping 
 began in 1975. The increased frequency of oil train disasters matches the 
 oil industry’s insatiable greed for ever more inaccessible, flammable 
 types of fossil fuel - namely the tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, and 
 the highly unstable crude oil from the Bakken Shale in the Midwest. \n\nTo 
 call attention to the growing danger of these so-called “bomb trains,” 
 communities across North America are mobilizing for the second annual Stop 
 Oil Trains Week of Action. Here in the Bay, where crude oil trains transit 
 daily, more than twelve organizations will hold a public rally at Atchison 
 Village Park in Richmond. From there, we’ll march our people power to the 
 gates of the BNSF/Kinder Morgan Rail Terminal, one of the key nodes of 
 crude oil transport in California. Finally, we’ll conclude at Washington 
 Park with a family-friendly festival.\n\nSo, why should you show up? 
 Firstly, these trains have a 1-mile blast zone, which in the City of 
 Benicia alone endangers more than 10,000 people. That’s to say nothing of 
 Richmond, a city of over 100,000. Another reason to come out next weekend 
 is that in the age of intensifying climate change, severe drought, and 
 ecological peril, we need all hands on deck to forge a stronger, more 
 resilient and healthy country - one whose economy doesn’t destroy the 
 living systems that keep us alive, but regenerates them. \n\nFor more 
 details, search for the Facebook event “Stop Oil Trains In Richmond.” 
 Once there, follow the link in the pinned post to RSVP for the event and 
 join the fight to #StopOilTrains!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/01/18774290.php
SUMMARY:Join the Fossil Fuel Resistance
LOCATION:Atchison Village Park, Richmond
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/01/18774290.php
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