Webinar: Texas GulfLink, Risky Business for the Gulf & Coastal Communities

This Saturday, March 27th, at 10 AM Concerned Citizens of Surfside Beach, Citizens for Clean Air Clean Water, Earthworks, Sierra Club, and Lonestar Legal Aid are hosting "Texas GulfLink: Risky Business for the Gulf" webinar. The Texas GulfLink project includes onshore and offshore pipelines, an oil export terminal and a crude oil storage terminal in the Jones Creek community.

This 2 hour webinar will feature Gulf experts, and local leaders speaking about the impact this project will have on communities and wildlife across Brazoria County. Sessions will examine the potential risks and impacts of GulfLink to the Gulf Coast community.

The webinar will take place over zoom and will be accessible via a dial in number; we are also working to provide closed captioning.

Register in advance at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8516159912891/WN_TFdw46bySl66YhPV3V6mkg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
A recording will be available afterwards to everyone who registers.

The Texas GulfLink project includes onshore and offshore pipelines, a oil export terminal and a crude oil storage terminal in the Jones Creek community. In an area already polluted by DOW Chemical, BASF Chemical Plant, and Freeport LNG Texas, Gulflink will add even more pollution. Onshore there will be 9.7 miles of 36-inch pipeline and 12.7 miles of 42-inch pipeline, some of which will pass through the Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area. This 42 inch pipeline will then continue another 32.3 miles underwater of the coast of Brazoria County to an export terminal. At the export terminal oil would be loaded onto Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), massive oil tankers, at the rate of 85,000 thousand barrels an hour or 2 million a day. The United States oil markets are saturated and GulfLink would allow Sentinel Midstream to ship oil from Texas to European and Asian markets. While the oil is exported for profit, communities in Texas are left with the pollution.