California Occupational Safety and Health Administration has recertified Valero Benicia Refinery as a Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Star Site, Public Affairs Manager Sue Fisher Jones said Wednesday. The refinery received the award Wednesday from Cal-OSHA representatives at a ceremony at Benicia Veterans Memorial Building, Fisher Jones said.
Joel Fallon: The Gold Rush and the Oil Rush, a sad parallel
BY THE 1850s, IT HAD BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT FOR SMALL-SCALE MINERS to find and profitably extract gold from California’s gold country. That’s when big-time operators moved in with hydraulic technology. Sediment, washed away by their high-pressure hoses, dammed or clogged riverbeds and lakes. Rivers’ courses changed. Agriculture was threatened in the Central Valley. Conflicts over […]
Valero puts safety first for the community, employees
IN RESPONSE TO A LETTER TO THE EDITOR last week in The Benicia Herald, I want to correct the most important misinformation the writer shared with the newspaper’s readers. It had to do with the suggestion that Valero would put profits above safety. Nothing could be further from the truth. As a Benicia resident and […]