PETITION: No more tar sands tankers in SF Bay
Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Contra Costa Board of Supervisors, Gov. Newsom, and other key decision makers in California
The science is in— tar sands crude oil is much dirtier than conventional crude. It has an outsized climate impact, is terrible for air quality, and when it spills it's much harder to clean up than conventional crude oil. And now Phillips 66 wants to expand its refinery to process more tar sands in the San Francisco Bay Area. This would significantly increase the number of oil tankers coming into the Phillips 66 refinery in the Bay! In addition to its negative impacts on frontline communities California, increasing tar sands production is bad for Indigenous communities at the source in Alberta, Canada, and transporting it via oil tankers increases the risk of devastating oil spills in the waters of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
To:
Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Contra Costa Board of Supervisors, Gov. Newsom, and other key decision makers in California
From:
[Your Name]
Tar sands crude oil harms our air, water, climate, and Indigenous and frontline communities. We respectfully urge you to reject Phillips 66’s refinery expansion that would double the number of tankers delivering to their refinery and allow them to process tar sands.