First Name | joseph |
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Last Name | puleo |
Email Address | joepuleo@hotmail.com |
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Subject | !0 year window to require electric power for docked tankers |
Comment | The proposed ten year delay in implementing this requirement is unacceptable. 35 percent of Bay Area pollution comes from non motor vehicle mobile sources, primarily bulk carriers . Compare this to 28 percent from on-road motor vehicles. Accordingly the single largest source of dangerous pollution, diesel particulates , is primarily from bulk carriers, tankers. I live in Point Richmond where we yearly endure 400 + tankers at the Chevron Long Wharf dock running their diesel engines to generate electricity. This electricity has a twofold purpose, first to heat the petroleum to increase its viscosity and secondly to run their pumps sending it up to the refinery . Chevron had the opportunity five years ago to electrify its dock during plant modernization but refused to do so. The Air Board has the power to, almost overnight, erase this dangerous condition but it is failing to do so. This ten year delay will add to the communities health dangers with no justification except the convenience of the polluters . Please require this to be done in at most the next two years. Yours truly Joseph Puleo |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2019-11-19 17:52:22 |
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