Please add your name to this new petition below:
Stop Ethanol Trains through Densely Populated Neighborhoods
I am a tax-paying stakeholder and am deeply concerned about Global Petroleum’s proposal to bring large volumes of ethanol by train to their Revere facility (60-120-car trains, two to three times per week, 280.8 million to 468 million gallons annually).
There are hundreds of thousands of residents, businesses, organizations, churches, health care institutions, schools and other important community resources along the proposal's routes. More than fifty cities and towns are likely to be affected including Cambridge, Somerville, Everett, Chelsea, East Boston, and Revere.
Ethanol is highly combustible and an accident in densely populated neighborhoods would put thousands at risk, without possibility of evacuation from a resulting fire.
We call on you, the Governor of Massachusetts, to listen to the concerns of the Commonwealth’s taxpayers and STOP THIS PROPOSAL.
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Under a plan by Waltham-based
Global Partners LP, about 1.7 million gallons of ethanol would be carried on a
freight train that is 60 cars long twice a week through two dozen communities,
including Cambridge, Somerville, East Boston, Everett and Chelsea, ending at a
waterside shipping center in Revere.
A 2011 study commissioned by the
state Department of Environmental Protection found ethanol is now the most
hazardous substance being transported by rail in the United
States.
On July 11, a 98-car train carrying ethanol partly derailed and exploded north of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The train was reportedly traveling below the speed limit in the middle of the night, and just two people were hurt. Investigators are trying to determine the cause.
On July 11, a 98-car train carrying ethanol partly derailed and exploded north of downtown Columbus, Ohio. The train was reportedly traveling below the speed limit in the middle of the night, and just two people were hurt. Investigators are trying to determine the cause.
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