The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) recently issued a notice about more unplanned flaring events at the Torrance Refinery, containing the following SCAQMD Link. That is already FIVE UNPLANNED events just this year!
According to the website, an Unplanned Event is used for emergencies caused by equipment failure, power outage, or other unanticipated event which requires the refinery to dispose of the gases in order to prevent harm to workers, the community, or to the environment.
So they have had 5 emergencies in the first 9 days of the year, compared to 13 during last year. The AQMD notice contained a link to a list of all the flaring events at the Torrance Refinery (Scroll down to Past Flare Events and click in the Event ID box to display newest first). It shows events for the last several years, which total by year:
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
| Planned | 1 | 7 | 12 | 7 |
| Unplanned | 5 | 13 | 24 | 5 |
And we are only 10 days into the year! Is anyone looking into this potential disaster? Does anyone care?
Join us on Saturday, February 17th from 10am until 11:30 am @ Columbia Park, Prairie Ave. (north of 190th St.) in Torrance, CA for TRAA’s 9th anniversary of a near-release of deadly HF!
Torrance Refinery Action Alliance 