Friday- 7/19 from 10-12pm at the San Francisco Federal Building, 90 7th St, San Francisco, CA 94103 FB EVENT HERE.

The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge a deeper channel through San Francisco Bay to enable oil tankers to move greater amounts of crude to and from Bay Area refineries.

Several environmental groups have filed a joint protest letter about the “San Francisco Bay to Stockton Navigation Improvement Project.” But the one and only public presentation on the plan was so poorly publicized by the Army Corps that no one in the grassroots heard about it in time to provide comment.

Now we have an opportunity to speak our minds.

This Friday, the Army Corps is holding a hearing on its Dredge Material Management Plan. This is probably intended to focus exclusively on “beneficial reuse” of dredging material, but this is an opportunity for community to speak up against the thirteen-mile dredging project whose sole purpose is to enable more oil trafficking on the taxpayers’ dime. The project would provide four refineries with nearly a $15 million annual subsidy, multiply the risk of oil spills, pump up the production of petroleum products, and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

For more background, see an excellent KQED piece and Sierra Club blog post: https://www.sierraclub.org/san-francisco-bay/blog/2019/06/trump-administration-wants-dredge-sf-bay-make-room-for-more-oil