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Oppose Phillips 66 Refinery Expansion and Oil
Trains in San Jose
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Oil-Train Facts• Phillips 66 is proposing to expand their Santa Maria refinery• The decision rests solely with the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission• Once the refinery is built oil-trains will run – local and state governments are
powerless• The oil-trains will be one-mile long and powered by three Diesel engines• The oil-trains will contain dangerously flammable and chemically liquefied Alberta tar
sands• The oil-trains leak and will off-gas health-endangering carcinogens• An oil-train leak, explosion and fire is an environmental disaster!• There will be 520 oil-trains per year – 260 running south and 260 running north• Oil-trains will pass within one-mile of 5.5 million Californians – 195,000 who live in
San Jose• Oil-trains fires are difficult to extinguish and San Jose doesn’t have the HazMat or fire
department resources• Not one drop will end up in America!• How will this danger affect the growth of downtown?
Oil-Train Growth In Just Six Years2008
2013
<10,000 Oil Train Cars
>400,000 Oil Train Cars
DOT says that there will be at least 10 major oil-train accidents per year!!!!
Oil trains spilled more crude oil in 2013 than in the previous 30-years combined
DOT-111 Weaknesses
• Even the newer CPC-1232 tank cars have broken open and exploded in recent accidents• 12 California State Senators wrote to the DOT to upgrade both DOT-111 and CPC-1232
SANTA CRUZ
VENTURA
SAN LEANDRO
RICHMOND
OAKLAND
MOORPARK
SAN JOSE
OXNARD
BERKELEY
SAN LUIS OBISPO
Oil Trains in California
PASO ROBLES
Cities Who Oppose
Elected Officials Who Oppose
We Are In The Impact Zone
SJ City Hall
Park Townsend
Happy It Was Not An Oil-train
“This afternoon we had a train derail right in the heart of our city, in the middle of district 3, and in one of the three remaining Japantown's in the country. Just imagine had this of been one of the oil trains. What would have happened to Japantown?”
- Coucilman Raul Peralez
Sign Petitions and Send a Letter/Email
Action Network Petition MoveOn.org PetitionForestEthics.org Petition
The Mesa Refinery
San Luis Obispo Planning CommissionRyan Hostetter, Project LeadCounty of San Luis Obispo Department of Planning and Building976 Osos Street, Room 300San Luis Obispo, CA 93408By email: [email protected]
San Jose [email protected]
Represent San Jose at the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission hearing in May or June
Conclusion
• The only way to stop the oil-trains is to oppose the Phillips 66 plan
• Oil-trains will curtail downtown’s social and economic resurgence
• Oil-trains will negatively impact our well-being and our environment
• An explosion would be devastating anywhere within San Jose’s city limits
• Please use your voice to oppose this plan
