Tell SoCalGas: Stop the Ventura Gas Compressor Expansion!

Due to community pressure, SoCalGas is seeking input on their Ventura Compressor Station expansion project. We need your comments to make it clear that we don't want this compressor in our neighborhood.

This compressor station should be shut down, and at the very least, SoCalGas should comply with providing a full Enviornmental Impact Report. This facility is leaky and poses the risks of pollution and explosions to our neighborhood and nearby EP Foster Elementary School.

Send your comments before Monday, November 15th, to tell SoCalGas to get out of our neighborhood!

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I urge you to stop your proposed Ventura Compressor Station expansion and to shut it down. This facility has negative health impacts on our community and puts our neighborhood at risk from explosions, leaks, and air pollution. We do not want this compressor in our neighborhood, especially near our kids at EP Foster Elementary; it's the only compressor located so close to a community in the state of California. We ask that you make the right choice to protect our community and shut down this facility.

The Westside of Ventura already suffers from some of the highest levels of pollution in California, as well as the health effects that come with that, like asthma and cancer. This facility should not be this close to homes and schools in the first place, and an expansion for decades longer is totally unacceptable. SoCalGas representatives have not revealed evidence of a need for expansion in the first place.

At the very least, we request that you conduct a full Environmental Impact Report, not just an alternatives analysis. We want to know the full risk of this expansion and whether it can be successfully moved to a safer location.

I request that you to urgently shut down the Ventura Compressor Station and build it where it will not impose such great risk on a nearby community.

Sincerely,

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