From: Grist
on Aug 6, 2013
After the refinery exploded again last year, Doria Robinson set
about tearing out the gardens. Six months of organic planting were lost
in one large plume of toxic smoke bellowing from the Chevron refinery in
Richmond, Calif., one year ago today, that sent upwards of 15,000
people to local hospitals complaining of respiratory distress.
“They didn’t pay for anything they did to our gardens. Nothing,” she said. “And we lost so much.”
Robinson is the executive director at Urban Tilth,
a Richmond nonprofit dedicated to cultivating organic urban agriculture
in western Contra Costa County, on the east side of the San Francisco
Bay. The incident last August was the third large Chevron fire that
Robinson, a third-generation Richmond resident, had experienced in her
life. MORE
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