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BREAKING: UPDATE – 12pm – Three lockdown blockaders have been extracted, arrested, and taken to Mt. Vernon Jail. Donations for legal defense can be made through https://t.co/GMbQhUmdTm Anacortes – Three residents of Anacortes and Seattle are currently blockading the oil train facility at Tesoro’s Anacortes Refinery by locking their bodies to barrels full of concrete. Supported by local residents, the three are demanding an immediate halt to the shipment of explosive Bakken oil through Northwest communities, the rejection of all new oil-by-rail terminals proposed for the Northwest, and an end to the refinery’s repeated violations of the Clean Air Act. “Thursday’s derailment was the last straw,” says Jan Woodruff, an Anacortes resident. “If Federal and State regulators won’t stand up to the fossil fuel companies endangering our communities, then we, the people of those communities, will do so.” Last Thursday, July 24th, an oil train bound for Tesoro’s Anacortes Refinery derailed in Seattle, highlighting the dangers posed to Northwest communities. Between nine and sixteen oil trains travel through Seattle and Mount Vernon every week – about five of which are bound for the Tesoro refinery. The day before Thursday’s frightening derailment, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and all nine City Council members sent a letter to the Department of Transportation asking for an immediate halt of oil-by-rail shipments through Seattle. blackcoffeecoop/residents-blockade-tracks-to-protest-dangerous-oil-by-rail-projects/ Hat tip to BlackCoffeeCoop for the press release. ~SW~
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:44:23 +0000

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