Stop Oil Trains in L.A. Day of Action July 10, 2016

Start: Sunday, July 10, 201611:00 AM

On July 10, 2016, SoCal 350 and our allies will be joining a statewide week of action to stop oil trains in Los Angeles oppose the Phillips 66 expansion permit.  This permit will increase the danger of oil trains derailing and exploding in our communities.  The San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission has conditionally approved a proposed Phillips 66 Oil Train offloading facility in Nipomo that would bring nearly 3 million gallons of dangerous and explosive tar sands crude oil per day into California. A final determination will be made in September 2016, so we must act fast.

We want to get people signing our petition for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to tell San Luis Obispo County we want this project rejected due to its dangerous impacts and disturbing precedent of bringing more bomb trains across our state.

Oil Trains Along the LA River?


Oil Trains will increase significantly running up and down the LA River with the approval of the Phillips 66 SLO Project. Photo © Craig Collins 2016

We will be gathering at Jessie Brewer Jr. Park, on the corner of Exposition Boulevard and South Vermont Avenue, near the Natural History Museum at Exposition Park, 11 AM on July 10 to share food and take pictures. Some of us will stay at the park, and some of us, in groups of 2-3, will go to gather petition signatures at other locations along the Metro line across the L.A. Basin.

Where: Jessie Brewer Jr. Park, southwest Corner of Exposition Boulevard and South Vermont Avenue. Near the Metro Expo Line Station Expo/Vermont.

Location: This site is just west of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, at 900 Exposition Boulevard, just south of the USC campus.

Transit: Expo Line going east and west on Exposition and the 204 bus which runs north and south on Vermont. Both have stops at the corner of Vermont and Exposition.

When: 11 am Meet, 11:15 Teach-In, 11:45, Photo Op, Noon Head out to engage with the community

Bring: Clip-board to get petition signatures, stop oil trains signs, sunscreen

Stop Oil Trains LA Meet Up - Jessie Brewer Jr Park Expo and Vermont

On July 6, 2013, an oil train derailed and exploded in tragic Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killing 47 people. This year the third annual Stop Oil Trains week of action will call attention to the threat of oil trains across North America, the people who are stopping them, and the need for 100% clean and safe energy.

PHILLIPS 66 SLO COUNTY TRAIN TERMINAL PROJECT

Phillips 66 proposes to bring mile long oil tanker trains, each carrying 2.4 million gallons of flammable, explosive petroleum, across California and through San Luis Obispo county five times a week for the next 20 years. The crude oil comes from Canada and is the dirtiest on earth, to be refined at the Nipomo Mesa plant, transported to the SF Bay area for further processing, and then exported to the highest bidders. The long term plan includes shipping toxic and volatile crude oil through the Los Angeles Basin as well. P66 plans to turn this local SLO refinery into the western center of sour crude oil processing. Our communities bear all of the risk and P66 shareholders and executives make millions.

After the most recent explosion in Mosier, Oregon of an oil train carrying explosive fracked crude from the North Dakota Bakken region, there is NO safe way to transport extreme tar sands and Bakken crude.

In 2016, we will demonstrate the power of our movement with 100 events across the US and Canada to #StopOilTrains and show that clean, safe energy is 100% Possible right now.

Please join with us to Educate, Agitate, and Make Things Better.  We will have petitions and info packets for you.  Meeting with people to share this information and to gather signatures is tremendously important.  We will be presenting the petitions to the LA Board of Supervisors at their August meeting.

Do something good for the world to help #StopOilTrains on July 10. Come to Exposition Park, spread the word and share the petitions!