Hello Clerk of the Board,
Please accept this email into the public
comment section on this matter for: ab6172021selection
As your website to submit comment seem to not
work as I hit the submit comment button
Comments on AB 617
4TH year selections.
Congratulations on another year of AB 617,
and associated funding. I’m sure the Board Hearing will be
filled with praise for CARB’s
Success!
However, you should know that CARB is
potentially incentivizing a Sewage to Power plant across the street
from South Sacramento’s AB 617 community. The community
was not made aware of this, and it’s CEQA exempt, despite
trenching, and significant construction work there. Do you
envision a scenario where they don’t get LCFS or Cap &
Trade credits? This is the same location as a Title V facility that
managed to escape AB 617 scrutiny, because the boundaries stopped
across the street from it. The air district fought for
that.
The gentleman in the attached picture
(picture submitted by an ally already) lives directly across the
railroad tracks, from the AB 617 boundaries. The boundaries stop
about 150 feet short of his house. His house is, arguably,
wracked by more pollution than 95% of the AB 617 area. He
never heard of AB 617, or the sewage to power plant. No one in his
neighborhood that I spoke with (about 15 people) heard about
either. He said he has asthma, as do many around
him.
Your Board includes many folks who also
serve on Air District Boards, and as politicians tasked with
bringing business to their community. That’s part of
the problem. As a Board paralyzed by the moderates’ desire
for a peace based on a lack tension, as described by Dr. King, the
rest of the Board will punt to a Board member if it’s their
area. Is that how justice works, or fiefdoms?
To the best of my knowledge, the South
Sacramento Steering Community has still not taken the tour of
permitted facilities. They took a tour that purposefully
avoided them. (see attached)
So, as you celebrate another year of
success, know that the injustices inflicted on South Sacramento in
the name of AB 617, have been swept under the rug. And every
praise for future communities while the injustice continues south
sacramento, tarnishes that praise. And it makes the injustice
against the most vulnerable that were left behind, even
worse.
Albert Einstein once said, “It is
better to be of value to society, than to be a
success.”