Next week, local residents, health care professionals and environmental advocates will be rallying and launching the Communities Against Carbon Transport and Injection (CACTI) Coalition.
The CACTI Coalition, a group of Bay Area residents, homeowners, health care professionals, parents, and environmental advocates, is forming to alert the public to the health and environmental risks of carbon pipeline infrastructure.
Specifically, CACTI will be calling on local officials to reject the Montezuma LLC Carbon Hub – a dangerous and unnecessary 45-mile carbon pipeline near the Bay’s communities and sensitive wetlands that will put people and wildlife at risk while doing nothing to protect our climate. The proposed pipeline infrastructure threatens public health across the Bay Area and especially in Contra Costa and Solano County.
This rally and press conference comes as the California legislature is poised to remove critical protections for Solano County residents and communities across the state by lifting California’s common sense ban on CO2 pipelines. Federal regulations also remain woefully inadequate.
WHAT: Rally and press conference; local residents and advocates will be holding signs, chanting and offering remarks
WHO: Speakers will include:
- Kathy Kerridge, 350 Bay Area Action, Benicia Resident
- Bonnie Hamilton MD, Pediatrician SF Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Elizabeth Patterson Mayor of Benicia 2007-2020
- Aundi Mevoli, Staff Scientist and Field Investigator, San Francisco Baykeeper
- Victoria Bogdan Tejeda Staff Attorney, Climate Law Institute Center for Biological Diversity
- Isabel Penman, Northern California Organizer; Food & Water Watch
WHERE: Solano Board of Supervisors Building; Fairfield, CA
WHEN: September 9; 12pm – 12:30 PST
Reporters are invited to attend and cover the rally and press conference. The event will also be livestreamed. The link will be provided closer to the event.
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