It’s been more than 3 years since a pipeline–allegedly carrying crude oil, although Chevron has admitted this refinery also processes tar sands–burst near Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Creek, carrying thousands of barrels of toxic sludge through the water system, impacting the health of thousands of people on the city’s east side and killing animals in Red Butte Creek, Liberty Park, the Jordan River and Great Salt Lake.
Since that time, Sarah Cunningham has experienced headaches every day and Chevron has been reluctant to provide any health care or help to her.
Since that spill, another Chevron pipeline burst in Salt Lake City, severely destroying a nature preserve on Great Salt Lake. News this week is that Chevron has for years been secretly poisoning residents with illegal levels of nitrous oxide and the EPA–years too late, and billions too short–has now issued them a paltry fine.
It’s not just pipeline spills that are killing people–like the disaster in Kalamazoo. Other dirty energy infrastructure is killing people, including exploding refineries–like the explosion that happened one year ago in Richmond, CA–deep water oil rigs and smoke stacks that kill slowly but surely with toxic fumes.
It’s time the people join together, rise up, and say NO.
NO PIPELINES
NO TANKERS
NO TAR SANDS
[youtube width=”600″ height=”485″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrb_w8COU3w[/youtube]
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