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"Our Reality" Environmental Justice Tour
Photos from a toxic tour of Southeast San Francisco for the World Environment Day Conference
FACT: Every year that the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant operates it spews more than 600 tons of pollution into the air over San Francisco
FACT: Every day that the plant operates, it discharges arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, silver, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, thallium, and chlorine into the San Francisco Bay.
FACT: Closing the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant would have no effect on electric reliability in San Francisco. The plant has operated for less than %60 of the last 3 years - it was closed for 8 months in 2003 - causing no blackouts. It is not needed to keep the lights on in San Francisco.
FACT: Ten percent of Bayview Hunters Point residents reported having asthma, compared to 5.6 percent nationally. Among children in Bayview Hunters Point, the asthma rate was 15 percent, or one in six.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
• Call your County Supervisor and insist that the City of San Francisco take action to close this dirty and polluting plant: (415) 554-5184
• Call or email Mayor Newsom and demand that he actively support the immediate closure of the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant; (415) 554-6141
gavin.newsom [at] sfgov.org
• Call Peter Darbee, CEO and President of PG&E: (415) 267-7000
For more information, call Greenaction (415) 248-5010 or visit
http://www.greenaction.org
FACT: Every day that the plant operates, it discharges arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, silver, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, thallium, and chlorine into the San Francisco Bay.
FACT: Closing the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant would have no effect on electric reliability in San Francisco. The plant has operated for less than %60 of the last 3 years - it was closed for 8 months in 2003 - causing no blackouts. It is not needed to keep the lights on in San Francisco.
FACT: Ten percent of Bayview Hunters Point residents reported having asthma, compared to 5.6 percent nationally. Among children in Bayview Hunters Point, the asthma rate was 15 percent, or one in six.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
• Call your County Supervisor and insist that the City of San Francisco take action to close this dirty and polluting plant: (415) 554-5184
• Call or email Mayor Newsom and demand that he actively support the immediate closure of the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant; (415) 554-6141
gavin.newsom [at] sfgov.org
• Call Peter Darbee, CEO and President of PG&E: (415) 267-7000
For more information, call Greenaction (415) 248-5010 or visit
http://www.greenaction.org
For more information:
http://www.luxomedia.com/blog
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Interview with Marie Harrison, community organizer for Greenaction, on the environmental and social impact of the toxic power plants in our community and some of the events happening on Saturday June 4th for World Environment Day and Greenaction's 8 Year Anniversary.
16 minutes, 16.6 MB
16 minutes, 16.6 MB
For more information:
http://www.luxomedia.com/blog
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"Our Reality" 3' 54"
"Our Reality" 3' 54"
For more information:
http://www.luxomedia.com/blog
Thanks to Greenaction and community activists, this polluting power plant is SHUT DOWN for good. Visit greenaction.org for more info.
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