Posted on 12/30/2022 6:01:40 PM PST by marshmallow
Diocese’s Creation Care Team Network joins fight against Mitsubishi cement warehouse
As the new year begins, the fate of a proposed cement warehouse that would significantly increase diesel truck traffic through Barrio Logan is uncertain.
What is certain is that a coalition of neighborhood residents, people of faith and health activists will have their voices heard by the corporation that wants to build the facility and the public agency that has to approve it, the San Diego Port Commission.
“No decisions about us without us!” declared Jesuit Father Scott Santarosa, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.
He was the last speaker at a prayer vigil the parish organized on the night of Dec. 12, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, outside the port’s headquarters on Pacific Highway. About 75 people attended the candlelit event, held on a damp night with temperatures in the high 40s, including parishioners and Jesuit Fathers Brad Mills and Neal José Wilkinson, and members of the diocese’s Creation Care Team Network.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is not just a beautiful woman whose picture we hang on our wall,” Father Santarosa said. “She sends us forth, like she did with Juan Diego, to put our faith in action. That is why we’re here tonight. We’re not finished.”
A group of parishioners attended the Port Commission’s meeting the following day, when a public hearing on the warehouse had been scheduled. The company that wants to build it, however, asked for the hearing to be postponed to “take additional time to engage with the community more directly and in a more substantive way.”
The company, Mitsubishi Corp., is proposing to build the warehouse at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal. The warehouse would create about 24,000 new diesel truck trips per year rumbling through Barrio Logan.
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The 10th Avenue Marine Terminal has plenty of space. The people pretending to be like St. Ignatius have too much free time and do not care about a capitalist projects.
Personally, I think the Jesuits should volunteer to leave the Catholic Church because they realize that the Church is NOT the place where they will flourish.
AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.
Hard to believe they were so respected, something like our FBI.
Sic Transit Gloria!!!
If I was a Catholic, this mandate on electric trucks would be enough for me to leave the church.
There is no such thing as a zero emission vehicle. That vehicle’s emissions just happen some place else which is exactly what the buyers of these vehicles want to happen. #NIMBY
There is no such thing as a zero emission vehicle. That vehicle’s emissions just happen some place else
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Kind of like the human body.
We eat with our visible mouth, and our emissions are far away.
In NYC they found the battery powered snow plow trucks could only run 4 hrs on a charge compared to 12 hr refuel interval for diesels. They’re backing off this plan pretty quickly.
No worries. California is banning diesel trucks. Maybe people can have their concrete delivered by ox drawn freight wagons.
They will probably just buy 3X as many subsidized electric plows.
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