From the Breach Collective:
for those in #PortlandOregon #PDX #Portland opposed to #BombTrains #ClimateCrisis #Disaster

Tell Portland City Council to rescind their dirty backroom deal with Zenith NOW!

Portland Commissioners Dan Ryan and Carmen Rubio did a backroom deal with Zenith, permitting the facility to endanger Portland with another five years of explosive oil trains.

Public records requests revealed how these two commissioners and their staff facilitated and coordinated the entire process of Zenith’s permit from start to finish.

The City keeps telling us that this was just a run of the mill administrative decision made by bureau staffers, but records show that while the city was shutting out public participation, Zenith was treating Rubio and Ryan to VIP boat tours and site visits as early as July 2022. This appearance of impropriety taints the city’s decision and we deserve more transparency about the extent and nature of the back room coordination between elected officials, city staff, the City attorney, and Zenith.

Nothing meaningful about Zenith Energy’s operations has changed: these trains are still dangerous, bakken shale oil is highly explosive, tar sands crude is still dirty and the vast majority of the fuel still won’t even be used here in Portland. Commissioner Ryan made this backroom deal based on nothing but a half-baked promise from Zenith that it would begin the process of transitioning to transporting “renewable fuels” in five years.

There is nothing in the deal to hold them to that promise.
Now, the City Council is closing ranks around the deal, claiming they don’t have the authority to revisit the decision or rescind the certification. But Oregon law clearly says they can. This plan goes against the promises and priorities the City of Portland laid out in 2020’s Climate Emergency Workplan, and the City Council has a responsibility to do what it can to stop it.

Add your name and send the Portland City Council a message: you serve the people of Portland, not a Texas-based fossil fuel corporation trying to wring a few more million dollars out of a dying, deadly industry.

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-zenith-pledge-of-resistance

JT’s new video on #EastPalestine is now on YouTube, and he does an amazing job!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSLlveDu6k

#NorfolkSouthern #derailments #BombTrains

I criticize Jon Stewart when he treats establishment figures with kid gloves, but he really let Pothole Pete and other corporate apologists in the Biden administration have it in this video. More of this, please!
https://youtu.be/O8Jrk6fvmQ8

#EastPalestine #NorfolkSouthern #derailment #BombTrains #WorkplaceSafety

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=0-qoMPqrBTc

#CorporateGreed #EastPalestine #Ohio #deregulation #bombtrains

https://www.hudsonriverstories.com/bomb-trains/

Albany NY has #BombTrains
2014
https://indypendent.org/2014/09/river-journey-learning-about-albanys-bomb-trains/

Forget about UFOs. Do you often hear train whistles? If so, your town could be the next #EastPalestine. What is the #DepartmentOfTransportation doing about it?
https://www.levernews.com/there-will-be-more-derailments/

#TrainDerailment #BombTrains

#EastPalestine resident gives first-hand account of #TrainDerailment in his community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWj01_8JAYs

#BombTrains #NorfolkSouthern #carcinogens #MajorityReport

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/bomb-trains/

#publicsafety #railroads #bombtrains