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No Toxic Housing on Zeneca Contamination Site!
About 60 people; Doctors, Engineers & Grassroots Organizers blocked the front entrance to the Campus Bay -Zeneca Contamination Site in Richmond on Dec 1st at 6:30am. This was an action against the construction of housing on the contaminated Zeneca site which was once used as a Uranium & Plutonium experiment site in the 1960s. The site includes a marsh, wildlife, industrial buildings, offices and a site of toxic condos in contruction.
For over 100 years, the shoreline of Richmond, California between what is now Marina Bay (the housing development adjacent to the Richmond Marina) and CostCo off Central Avenue, has been heavily polluted. The major part of that land, currently owned by Cherokee Investment Partners and the University of California, was an AstraZeneca chemical facility. This facility produced sulfuric acid, pesticides, and herbicides, and ran tests on uranium. As a result of 100 years of operation, the land underneath the facility has been described as some of the most toxic in California.
for more info and background on issue:
http://www.soula.org/-/zt/
http://www.aikidoofberkeley.com/neighborhood
http://www.richmondprogressivealliance.net/3_shoreline_condo.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/31/MNG0B8H7TB1.DTL
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=11-09-04&storyID=20044
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2004/Toxic-High-Rises31aug04.htm
http://www.dailycal.org/particle.php?id=
for more info and background on issue:
http://www.soula.org/-/zt/
http://www.aikidoofberkeley.com/neighborhood
http://www.richmondprogressivealliance.net/3_shoreline_condo.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/31/MNG0B8H7TB1.DTL
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=11-09-04&storyID=20044
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2004/Toxic-High-Rises31aug04.htm
http://www.dailycal.org/particle.php?id=
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Check out: http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=1065 for the answer
You may be interested to know that the building plans for the condos to be built on the Zeneca contamination will be constructed with fans underneath to blow the toxics out of the building. Not to mention, that the bottom floors on the building are reserved for "low-income housing" in the spirit of "mixed" housing. Sounds hierarchal, but Pollution Goes Everywhere (PG&E hahaha)!
You may be interested to know that the building plans for the condos to be built on the Zeneca contamination will be constructed with fans underneath to blow the toxics out of the building. Not to mention, that the bottom floors on the building are reserved for "low-income housing" in the spirit of "mixed" housing. Sounds hierarchal, but Pollution Goes Everywhere (PG&E hahaha)!
For more information:
http://www.greenaction.org
Here is another incident nearby where the Richmond police completely flipped out and arrested a couple people at a similar protect at the Chevron refinery. That refinery regularly has gas leaks, which sometimes have sent hundreds of people to the hospital.
Even though they made felony charges, all charges were dropped by the judge at the initial arraignment.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2001/11/108921.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2001/11/108925.php
Even though they made felony charges, all charges were dropped by the judge at the initial arraignment.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2001/11/108921.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2001/11/108925.php
What have we learned from history in repeating itself?
Were the lessons from "Love Canal" lost ???
Were the lessons from "Love Canal" lost ???
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