By : Jeff Carlson/Vallejo We keep hearing that turning down the VMT/Orcem waterfront terminal and slag cement plant project would somehow be unfair to the applicants, or give Vallejo a reputation as unfriendly to business. Really? What’s fair about locating heavy industry in residential neighborhoods — polluting their air and filling their streets with a daily […]
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Mare Island Naval Shipyard – A historic Background
By: ebbflowin Mare Island Naval Shipyard fought irrelevance for nearly a century. It was a geographically poor location, with existential military & logistical challenges. It is unequivocally true Vallejo was dependent on the Navy, and on war. I would venture to say this is due in part to a lack of imagination, not some manifest […]
Slag Toxicity – Orcem tells you Slag is safe but that is a Lie
Slag tales – by Jeff Carlson POSTED: 05/25/18, 3:00 AM PDT The stories told about blast furnace slag by promoters of a proposed south Vallejo waterfront slag cement plant serve to illustrate both the quality of the information presented to the public, and the folly in thinking the environmental review process provides adequate protection. The […]
Baykeeper: Say No to Coal Pollution in the Bay
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It looks like developers are trying to fool all of us who love San Francisco Bay—twice. For the second time in less than a year, development threatens the Bay with contamination from coal. Developers are proposing to build a shipping terminal on the […]
Green Cement or Green-washed Cement
Cement manufacture causes environmental impacts at all stages of the process. The fact that Granulated Ground Blast-furnace Slag (GGBFS) isn’t quarried and baked before it comes to Vallejo is beside the point. The salient question is whether shipping slag from Asia on ships using diesel engines, grinding and mixing it here, then shipping the products […]
Fresh Air Vallejo – Peter Brooks Interview
Peter Brooks from Fresh Air Vallejo describes his group’s effort going through thousands of page of documents provided by VMT/ORCEM to bring out the important information in fine print. Please share !
Where are We in the Process?
Many people have asked, “Where are we in the overall process and what will happen next?” To see the detail schedule of all meetings, comments, draft and future/final reports, go to the City website link below. Here is the short version: September 2015: City released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the VMT/Orcem application. It was […]