A great NEW resource for letter-writing, etc. – Benicia Organizing Toolkit, by ForestEthics (October, 2015)
Previous resources:
Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Benicia submitted a 132-page letter to the City of Benicia on September 15, 2014, the final day to submit comments for the public record on Valero’s dangerous Crude By Rail proposal.
Download the BSHC letter here.
(See page 1 with Table of Contents below)
BENICIANS FOR A SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
FOR VALERO BENICIA CRUDE BY RAIL PROJECT
(SCH# 2013052074, USE PERMIT APPLICATION 12PLM-00063)
Dated: September 15, 2014
Benicians For a Safe and Healthy Community (“BSHC“) respectfully submit this Response dated September 15, 2014 to the Draft Environmental Impact Report For Valero Benicia Crude By Rail Project (“Response“). Unless defined otherwise hereunder, capitalized terms and/acronyms used herein that are defined in the Draft Environmental Impact Report (“DEIR“) will have the meaning given to such terms in the DEIR. The Response includes this written response together will all prior oral and written comments to the DEIR provided by BSHS to date. BSHC would like to thank the many individual members of BSHC who contributed to this Response. Follow-up consultation with BSHC and the City of Benicia’s formal response to BSHC should be directed to Marilyn J. Bardet.
Handouts from our June 28 Workshop on How to Read and Comment on Valero’s DEIR:
- How to Submit comments on Valero DEIR (short version)
- How to Participate in the Environmental Review Process (Powerpoint)
- Responding to the Valero DEIR (more in depth)
- Contact List – Call or Write These People
- Terms & Basic Info on the Crude-By-Rail Issue
- STOP CRUDE-BY-RAIL BROCHURE_(Benicians For a Safe & Healthy Community) – large file, please be patient during download
- NRDC Fact Sheet – “It Could Happen Here”
- BSHC Letter to Governor Brown (Cover Memo)
- Proposed Oil Projects current in the Bay Area
The following materials were distributed by the City of Benicia at a June 30, 2014 Planning Commission Workshop on the California Environmental Quality Act and Reviewing a Draft Environmental Impact Report:
- PowerPoint: “California Environmental Quality Act Basic Overview Tips on Reviewing an EIR”
- CEQA Guidelines, City of Benicia, revised June 3, 2014
- Environmental Review, pp. 31-36, Understanding the Basics of Land Use and Planning – Guide to Local Planning
- CEQA Environmental Checklist (dated March 18, 2010)