#sacrifice zone

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The Devastating Toll of the Fossil Fuel Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

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“Leaks, spills, and explosions are also industry-admitted risks. Appalachia’s Cancer Alley could be even more dangerous than the Gulf Coast’s because of its mountainous topography. Air pollution in the mountains gets trapped in low valleys like a smothering blanket, and any leaked gases from underground storage could remain stagnant and ignite with one spark. “It’s horrible what’s going on in Texas and Louisiana, but they have Gulf breezes moving air out of the region. We don’t have that, and it’s a worse-case scenario,” says Johncox.”

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — People who live in this region understand that, at some point, a major earthquake will rock the area. Most of the time, talk about damage is centered on the major infrastructure and bridges that connect various parts of Portland.

But the 20,000 people who are residents on the St. Johns Peninsula in North Portland are saying loud and clear, “We are not a sacrifice zone.”

Donna Cohen, who founded the St. Johns Peninsula Emergency Route group, led the dozens of people who gathered Sunday to shine a spotlight on the fact they would be cut off and stranded from even a small quake.

“We are connected to Portland by 4 small bridges that are over 110 years old,” Cohen told KOIN 6 News. “PBOT has evaluated these bridges and told us they are all going to collapse even in a minor earthquake. In fact, they may collapse before. One of them is already weight restricted.”

She said the other sides of the peninsula will liquefy, damaging all the structures and roads. Their only way out would be over Columbia Boulevard or Lombard Avenue. But there’s a problem.

“They are not emergency routes because they go over the railroad cut. The bridges will collapse, we will be trapped, blocking about 20,000 people, workers and residents in the Rivergate Industrial area who will be trapped here after the earthquake.”

But it gets worse, Cohen said.

“We live across from the Critical Energy Infrastructure hub, which is where 90% of Oregon’s fuel is stored,” she said. “If the CEI hub ruptures – which it probably will – a toxic cloud could very well come across here and we will have no escape. So this is really a dire, life-and-death situation.”

Cohen and her group, supported by State Sen. Lew Frederick, support HB 2749 written by Rep. Travis Nelson. That bill provides “$5 million so that we could start planning for a new bridge over the railroad cut at Columbia Boulevard,” she told KOIN 6 News.

But it’s stuck in the Transportation Committee and her group is urging lawmakers to move it along to Ways and Means and then pass it before this legislative session ends.

Frederick, who was at the Sunday rally, said elected officials are beginning to see how important this issue is.

“We have now started to see that we have to be ready for emergencies and we need to know how to deal with emergencies and make sure people are safe,” Frederick said. “These folks see that. They’re making their voices known. That’s the key element.”

The current Oregon legislative session ends June 29.

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BOMB WAITING TO GO OFF": Bloody Noses, Severe Headaches After Lithium Battery Inferno

Tina-Desiree Berg was in Northern California where she talked with nearby resident Jody. She lives near where the Moss Landing Lithium Battery Factory fire happened, and herself along with others have experienced bloody noses, headaches and more after the inferno passed over.

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Channel Zero Season 3 - Episode 6: Sacrifice Zone AirDate: March 14th, 2018, 10:00 PM

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This is spiritual warfare that you have been dealing with. This is not a fight that you have been dealing with flesh and blood but this is a fight against principalities and evil doers and unclean spirits

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Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail.

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What is in the water is a byproduct of society's disregard for people in areas considered "sacrifice zones". Over time those who have the capability to move out do, however that is not an opportunity the majority of residents enjoy. When corporations and people out of touch with the conditions faced are granted power over the well-being of the general public they swear an oath to protect those whom they serve. Some think those lines are confined to their immediate constituents, however the cumulation of votes cast to deny other communities shows how messed up the current US political and economic position is.