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Our community in Richmond has lost too many elders, grandparents,
and children to countless terminal illnesses and health conditions
connected to their living in proximity to one of the biggest
polluters in California, the Chevron oil refinery. We have lost
cultural histories and some future elders to the toxic impact from
this global fossil fuel giant, while being told to wait for our
chance to be repaired and protected with new cleaner solutions to
the impact on our air and soil and water, and every day lives.

What is protective or repairative about an incentive plan filled
with "solutions" from the industry that has put us on this
destructive path to begin with?????

We took time to plan and invite you to our community to show you
the direct impacts to our children's lungs and tiny vulnerable
bodies, to share with you our solutions as a community to survive
and thrive. AND yet --- what you propose is going to incentivize
carbon capture sequestration plans from oil refineries that are
literally killing us. The only future for Richmond under these
plans brings more flaring and the potential for another MASSIVE
explosion where no hospital exists for miles. What will our death
toll be then??? Shall we bury our dead on the 3000 acres of land
Chevron occupies in Richmond? 

I challenge you all to do better and align with the communities and
workers that continue to suffer. Decision making bodies like yours
are proposing to allow those who have violated our bodies and
communities to do so for many more years by incentivizing
alternative fuels and allowing CCS projects to use our communities
as guinea pigs for the foreseeable future. 

Anything less than community centered solutions is a betrayal of
our communities and all those we have lost due to environmental
racism which you will continue to allow with your plan.