All events are listed at www.stopoiltrains.org
Please join VAN volunteers as we organize protests against explosive oil trains. July 6 is the second anniversary of the tragic Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, oil train catastrophe that killed 47 people. The Stop Oil Trains week of action will call attention to the growing threat of oil trains across North America.
There is NO safe way to transport extreme tar sands and Bakken crude. Two years after Lac-Mégantic, oil trains keep exploding and carbon pollution keeps rising. Oil trains are a disaster for our health, our safety, and our climate.Please join VAN volunteers as we organize protests against explosive oil trains. July 6 is the second anniversary of the tragic Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, oil train catastrophe that killed 47 people. The Stop Oil Trains week of action will call attention to the growing threat of oil trains across North America.
In July 2014, thousands gathered at 63 events for the first Stop Oil Trains Week of Action. In 2015, we will demonstrate the growing power of our movement and organize more than 100 events across the US and Canada to demand an immediate ban on oil trains.
Oil Train Week of Action July 6-12, 2015
- 5420 Fruit Valley Rd, Vancouver, WA 98660
VAN will likely invest in a selfie stick.
****UPDATE***Nustar Protest
****UPDATE***Nustar Protest
Tuesday July 7 – Twitter Oil Train Watch (ongoing)
Wednesday July 8 – 11am Union Pacific protest – demanding their hidden Crude Oil by Rail disaster risk documents and demanding they stop shipping crude oil via train – call in, email in, write a letter actions, banner drop meet on Burnside Bridge and i-5 signage and flyers write letters to-- 19th & SE Holgate Blvd., Building 1825, Portland, OR 97202
Call Union Pacific
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submit emails via this page http://www.up.com/messages/
****Update**** No Oil Trains banner drop on Burnside Bridge at I-5 northbound
12pm tabling on Portland east side of Steel Bridge on the Eastbank Esplanade
****Update**** Tabling in front of the Union Pacific railroad office in the blast zone
****Update**** Tabling in front of the Union Pacific railroad office in the blast zone
Thursday July 9 – 10 am DOT Vancouver – give us our rights back to know about oil train shipments and don't allow oil to be shipped in DOT 111 railcars
- E-mail: WagnerD@wsdot.wa.gov
Phone: 360.905.2001
***Update*** The DOT's in Portland and Vancouver communicated about the protests today.
3pm DOT Portland – give us our rights back to know about oil train shipments and don't allow oil to be shipped in DOT 111 railcars
***Update*** A representative from the Oregon DOT came out to speak with us and take our list of demands.
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Friday July 10 – 10am BNSF protest Vancouver – demanding their hidden Crude Oil by Rail disaster risk documents and demanding that they stop shipping crude oil via train – call in, email in, write a letter actions and banner drop meet near the cross streets of W Mill Plain Blvd and Lincoln Avenue in the Fruit Valley area of NW Vancouver with signage and flyers
write letters to--
1310 W 11th St
Vancouver, WA
Call BNSF (360) 418-6303
Vancouver, WA
Call BNSF (360) 418-6303
Submit emails using this form
***Update*** The largest of the protest crowds attended this event on W Mill Plain in Vancouver. Thanks to Pam for making calls to help turn folks out.
***Update*** BNSF police were not to happy to see us. There were more police than protesters but we delivered our list of demands.
12pm Federal Railroad Administration Vancouver- don't allow oil to be shipped in DOT 111 railcars and give us our rights back to know about oil train shipments
500 Broadway, Suite 240
Vancouver, WA 98660 phone: 360-696-7536
***Update*** When we arrived at the FRA there was already a group of protesters upstairs talking with a Department of Homeland Security agent who was monitoring the protest last year. Everyone came downstairs to the street for a pic.
***Update*** We had a short conversation with an FRA rep and delivered our list of demands. We were assured that he was creating a report including pictures he took to alert FRA headquarters that they were under protest.
Vancouver, WA 98660 phone: 360-696-7536
***Update*** When we arrived at the FRA there was already a group of protesters upstairs talking with a Department of Homeland Security agent who was monitoring the protest last year. Everyone came downstairs to the street for a pic.
1pm tabling on Vancouver Riverwalk near 170 SE Columbia Way
Saturday July 11 – 2pm Lemon Island, Oregon Camp out "planning meeting" for oil train focused 2016 PNW Climate CampJuly 6-12, 2016 (boat in event) http://www.pnwclimatecamp.
Sunday July 12 – 10am Lemon Island, Oregon Camp out "planning meeting" for oil train focused 2016 PNW Climate Camp (boat out event) http://www.pnwclimatecamp.
What was the result after this protest? Waiting to explore about the after results. Thank you.
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