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Manchester Demands Transparency
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William R. Klesse, As CEO & President of Valero you must be held accountable for the human rights abuses your corporation is committing in communities like ours. One need not do anything more than visit Houston’s Manchester neighborhood to know that the air here is dangerously polluted; air monitors have recorded 1,3-Butadiene levels measuring 11 times greater than what is allowed in a toxic waste dump. Nearly all children here have persistent coughs, and adults are plagued with sickness and headaches. We have come forward and documented countless stories of illnesses and disease such as asthma, leukemia, and a variety of cancers all of which we attribute to the presence of your refinery. No more will we allow you to poison our air and lungs without question. Manchester is almost completely Latino, and the average family here lives below the poverty line. In 2011, you earned $11,027,067 by exploiting us and other communities like ours. It would take the average resident in our community 368 years to earn what you do in one. What you are forcibly doing to us is without a doubt environmental racism. You have 5 days to be accountable to the following information: 1. What are you putting into our air? 2. How do these chemicals affect our health 3. What kind of violations have happened here that you haven’t told us about? 4. What are the annual emissions limits for each chemical you emit, and what are your measured emissions of these chemicals? We know that your refinery can not operate within federal law, and now it’s time that the rest of the world know as well. We demand transparency from you, and want you to know that we do not consent to the presence of your refinery in our community. We are in solidarity with the Tar Sands Blockade, TEJAS, and all those who fight for truth and justice. We oppose all those who seek to exploit others for their personal gain. Not only do we hold you, William, personally accountable, but we hold all Valero shareholders and the American people who lay eyes on our community and only provide passive support. We will not be your sacrifice!
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Residents living in the Manchester neighborhood located in Houston's toxic East End demand transparency from CEO & President of Valero. A Valero refinery surrounds the only park in this community blowing poison all over the families who live there.
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William R. Klesse,
As CEO & President of Valero you must be held accountable for the human rights abuses your corporation is committing in communities like ours. One need not do anything more than visit Houston’s Manchester neighborhood to know that the air here is dangerously polluted; air monitors have recorded 1,3-Butadiene levels measuring 11 times greater than what is allowed in a toxic waste dump.
Nearly all children here have persistent coughs, and adults are plagued with sickness and headaches. We have come forward and documented countless stories of illnesses and disease such as asthma, leukemia, and a variety of cancers all of which we attribute to the presence of your refinery. No more will we allow you to poison our air and lungs without question.
Manchester is almost completely Latino, and the average family here lives below the poverty line. In 2011, you earned $11,027,067 by exploiting us and other communities like ours. It would take the average resident in our community 368 years to earn what you do in one. What you are forcibly doing to us is without a doubt environmental racism.
You have 5 days to be accountable to the following information:
1. What are you putting into our air?2. How do these chemicals affect our health3. What kind of violations have happened here that you haven’t told us about?4. What are the annual emissions limits for each chemical you emit, and what are your
measured emissions of these chemicals?
We know that your refinery can not operate within federal law, and now it’s time that the rest of the world know as well. We demand transparency from you, and want you to know that we do not consent to the presence of your refinery in our community.
We are in solidarity with the Tar Sands Blockade, TEJAS, and all those who fight for truth and justice. We oppose all those who seek to exploit others for their personal gain.
Not only do we hold you, William, personally accountable, but we hold all Valero shareholders and the American people who lay eyes on our community and only provide passive support. We will not be your sacrifice!
