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Oil

Bomb Trains and Butterflies

May 26, 2023April 30, 2023 by Patti Robrahn

This isn’t just the work of activists – every member of the community has skills and interests that can advance the effort, if only they choose to share them. Folksinger Joan Baez said that “Action is the antidote to despair,” and that has been true for me.

Tags Bomb Train, Butterfly, Doom or Bloom, Extinction Rebellion, Joan Baez, Oil, Portland, Zenith, Zenith Energy

POP! The Fossil Fuel Investment Bubble

April 28, 2023 by annie

[This street theater skit was performed in “Portland’s Living Room,” Pioneer Square, on April 24 as part of The Spring Rebellion actions organized by Extinction Rebellion groups on the West Coast.] MC: Thank you for … Read more

Tags Bank of America, banks, capitalism, Chase Bank, ConocoPhillips, divestment, economy, Fossil Fuels, market growth, Oil, Wells Fargo, Willow Project

What’s Shaking at The Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub?

February 20, 2023 by Mark Darienzo
A photo from a distance of the Zenith Energy facility in Northwest Portland, comprised of a large number of white, largely nondescript cylinders and domes, with similarly bland train boxcars lined up in front.

Oil releases from the tanks to the river would spread downstream all the way to the mouth of the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, creating an ecological nightmare.

Tags Cascadia Subduction Zone, CEI Hub, Deepwater Horizon, Earthquake, Oil, Risk

Zenith Oil Train Codebreaker

January 5, 2023 by XRPDX

Zenith Energy is a danger to our city and region. Shut Down Zenith!

Tags Bakken Crude, Oil, Shut Down Zenith, Zenith Energy

Coalition Letter to Senator Wyden: No Dirty Deal!

December 5, 2022 by Diana Meisenhelter

This side deal will stifle citizen powers to protect communities (usually Black, Latino, Indigenous and/or poor white) against the deep pockets of corporations and the devastation of extraction sites, pipelines, refineries, LNG export facilities and more.

Tags American Petroleum Institute, Dirty Side Deal, Environmental Justice, Gas, IPCC, Manchin, Oil, Renewable Energy, Wyden

Rescind “New” LUCS: Open Letter to Dan Ryan

April 28, 2023November 2, 2022 by XRPDX

RE: Zenith’s 2022 LUCSDear Commissioner Dan Ryan,cc: Mayor Ted Wheeler, Portland City Council, Bureau of Development Services We are writing on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups in the Portland area to express our … Read more

Tags City of Portland, Dan Ryan, LUCS, Oil, Zenith, Zenith Energy

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