Shell Pipeline in Northern California Has History of Oil Spills, Documents Show

When my dad worked as a pipefitter, the union sometimes sent him to oil refineries, where alot of hours could be had. He told me that he refused Shell because their facilities are so dirty - oil leaks everywhere, and a general lack of control. I'm certain it no better now, given that all corporations will wait until they're inspected and cited before even attempting minimal compliance. If Shell was losing a significant percentage of their revenue through that pipe. they might do something about it. Otherwise, I suspect more problems are on the way.

We must demand more than a cleanup of this spill! More is likely "in the pipeline".

The OCAW-Oil, Chemical and atomic workers Union struck the Shell oil refinery in Burnaby B.C. Canada in the latter part of the sixties, and the union shut down all the other Gigantic Oil Monopolies in the Province of B.C. This strike was done to oppose the pollution and destruction of the environment done by the big oil monopolies.

The goals of the union workers on strike on legal picket lines were not the same as the oil monopolies.

The Oil monopolies chief concern were that the workers must not strike and win conditions that favored their class solidarity by ending fossil fuel dependence and finding a non-pollution solution to the need to end air, land, and water pollution.

Electricity from renewable energy sources was the suggestion way back in the ERA of the socialist beginnings with the International working mans Association, and the socialist class conscious politicians at the end of the nineteenth century.

Marx, Engels and William Morris agreed that pollution had no place in a safe working space and was harming the working classes with black lung and early death. Change was then touted as the need.

Well over a century has passed since those very early attempts by unions and political parties to end the pollution of the industrial revolution. It is now more modern to show the need for the complete re-tooling of the industrial revolution to the renewable energy resources such as wind, tidal, and solar power that transforms to electricity and is more power than all the fossil fuels such as the non-renewable energy sources as are coal, gas, oil and nuclear fission atomic power, which have proven non-containable and are even now destroying the ecological, organic balances of the web-of-life on planet Earth.

So much is this catastrophic disaster proceeding that fossil fuel burn-out of oxygen to carbon-dioxide that we cannot live on has and is on-going a causing temperature rises far exceeding expectations of a natural pleasant environment.

The whole world is being roasted and toasted with no reasonable change to favor the livability. We must therefore re-tool to the non-pollution solutions and quit the fossil fuel dependence that is present practice throughout our beautiful planet. Extinction is no solution.

Pollution is no solution. Increasing oil pipelines, or transporting oil by rail is not a solution. We need to re-tool to industrial revolution to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power immediately so that the livability of the planet will return and the greening can once again give us oxygen at a plus rate rather than a failed burn-out rate.

You yet have a world to win!!
End fossil fuel wars against the livability of the whole planet. Workers of the world unite!! Water pipelines driven by solar ENERGY can end droughts globally. Voila!!