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Walk the Talk: Stories of Indigenous-led Resistance to Oil and Waste

Walk the Talk: Stories of Indigenous-led Resistance to Oil and Waste

On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll meet people challenging polluters in their own backyard. Not to push hazardous industries into another neighborhood. Instead they’re developing…

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The Chevron Richmond Fire by Mark Gonzales

Curated tweets by Mark Gonzales on the Chevron Fire in Richmond, California - August, 8, 2012

Dear World: Let’s talk how an oil refinery fire in Richmond, CA is a perfect case study in social justice as global health. The #Chevronfire was an explosion at an oil refinery in Richmond, CA that caused an entire region to be put on air quality alert two eve's ago.

What dooes it look like when an oil refinery catches fire? Video.

What is continually missing in reports around the fire isn't the refinery or price of gas, it is the people who live near by. Of Richmond's population of 100,000, over 17,000 (nearly 20%) live within 3 three miles radius of the Chevron Oil Refinery. According to city stats, Richmond is city of working class population, overwhelmingly low income, w 80% residents of color. 

Fires at the refinery are not new. In the last two decades, there have been more than seven fires.

Richmond “produces more hazardous material per capita & square mile than any other county in the state.” Following are links that any person with children or a heart should notice: effects of oil refinery on babies to elders.

Oil refinieries may increase risk of Leukemia | Study (Sweden) |

Refinery chemicals linked to birth defects | Study (Texas)|

Lung Inflamattion in children & oil refineries | Study (Italy)

Correlation between First Nation high rates of cancer & oil exploration on tribal lands.          | (Canada) ||

Reflect on how lung inflammation leads to asthma on the following sources. Burden of Asthma in California (children focus)|

Asthma is the leading cause of chronic disease & absenteeism among schoolchildren in the Bay Area. 

Reflect on people in your family diagnosed & who have survived or died from cancer as you read the next source. Bay Area industrial area residents have 40% higher risk of cancer. Chevron largest polluter. | NYTimes |

The @EllaBakerCenter reported 949 people have gone to the hospital since last night. Currently, Chevron has set up a claims process to pay for community's medical & property costs. | 866-260-7881

I lost two aunts & mi abuelo to cancer. All were exposed to pesticides in fields. I take chemicals & cancer risk PERSONAL.

At its core, the #ChevronFire is less "issue of a refinery", and   more of the human right to work in an environment that does not kill us. It is not as simple as “close the plant” because it is how many of the people who are dying, ironically make a living. This is the trap & the tragedy missing in all reports: The ways we work to live is what is causing us to die so early.  encourage you all to know what factories are in your area & what hazardous waste dumps are in the vicinity. 

I encourage all parents to research EPA reports on neighborhood, especially if there are high amounts of childhood asthma. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with Richmond & the Right to Know Campaign. 

Before Richmond, Chevron owed $19 BILLION for birth defects they caused Indigenous of the Amazon. 

RIght to clean air. Right to breathe. Right to be. Right to grow. Right to dream. None of these are negotiable. 

Love to all buried to early. Love to all who worked in conditions they shouldn't have, so they could put food on our table. Love to our elders who died from pesticides, from the black lungs in the coal mines, from the water polluted by soda plants.

Love to the infants who died from asthma attacks, from being poisoned by lead based paint in government housing.

Elders. Infants. Mothers. Fathers. -- dignity for the breathing & the buried.

May the only fire in our community be the flames of beauty that burn inside you.

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THE CHEVRON FIRE: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

The fire at the Richmond Chevron oil refinery on August 6, 2012 and the news reports of injuries to residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, makes this a good time for a blog post about the basics of personal injury law.

Under California law, if another person (including a corporate “person” or company) is responsible for harming you, you may, depending on the circumstances of the case, be able to recover money for a variety of injuries. Injuries might include:

a.     Conscious physical and mental pain and suffering and anguish, past and    future;

b.     Disfigurement, past and future;

c.     Physical impairment, past and future;

d.     Loss of wages/earnings;

e.     Loss of earning capacity;

f.      Loss of consortium, past and future;

g.      Loss of enjoyment of real property and homes, and loss/diminution of property value, past and future;

h.      Fear, anxiety and emotional distress;

i.       Reasonable and necessary medical, counseling, psychiatric, therapeutic and related expenses, past and future;

j.       Property damage.

In large incidents such as a refinery fire, injured persons often join together in a “mass tort” action. Each person’s claims are ultimately distinct and treated separately, but they join together in one lawsuit. This has the advantage of minimizing some costs of discovery and investigation, and generally makes the case stronger.

Claims for money compensation for injuries in oil refinery explosion cases are often based on claims of “negligence” for allowing unsafe conditions to exist, “trespass” for causing smoke and other harmful substances to enter onto the victim’s property; and “strict liability” for operating an ultra-hazardous business. Under strict liability, a company can be found liable for injuries even if it was not negligent. In extreme cases, where an oil company is found to have lied or covered-up facts and/or been consciously aware of safety problems and not acted, other claims such as “gross negligence” or “fraud” might be brought against the company to allow victims to recover “punitive damages.” Punitive damages are monetary awards to victims that are intended to serve as punishment to the company and not just compensation for actual losses the victim suffered.

  In an incident such as the Chevron fire, injuries may range from mild to severe. Common physical injuries from toxic smoke inhalation are itchy eyes, sore throat, headaches, dizziness, coughing, shortness of breath, skin irritation and many others. Even if symptoms are minor, they are still injuries for which a negligent company may owe you compensation. In extreme cases, hospitalization may be required or symptoms may persist. Emotional distress injuries often take the form of fear and anxiety and worry. Property damages claims may include the cost of cleaning toxic smoke residue from inside or outside your home.

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Top Citizen Footage Of Chevron Oil Refinery Fire

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Large oil refinery fire contained, effects could be felt for days to come

cause Last night, an oil refinery blaze at a Chevron plant in Richmond, Calif. caused a large plume of black smoke that could be seen from miles away. Or in other words, it was kind of scary.

effects The refinery fire blazed through Monday evening, causing local residents to be stuck in their homes for hours, though with little wind, the fumes didn't dissipate — which is good for air quality.

results Despite being largely contained, the fire caused a stop in production at the plant, which may cause higher gas prices in the days to come. The plant handles 240,000 barrels per day. source

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i live up this hill thing so there was a really good view of the smoke from that chevron fire in richmond