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It was in high school that Chavira became more deeply involved in climate activism. At the Dead and company burgettstown pa the pavilion at star lake 2023 shirt Furthermore, I will do this time, she was hired as an assistant at a community garden in Montbello, a neighborhood just a short drive from Commerce City, where she first became aware of the Suncor refinery. “My boss was talking to me about Suncor and how it was fucking up the soil to the point where they can’t plant out there,” says Chavira. After watching the short documentary Suncor Sundown last year—which exposed how, among other things, the refinery is located just beside the South Platte River, which serves as a main water source to Colorado’s eastern plains—Chavira felt a renewed drive to do something about it. “That’s when I began piecing together reasons why we couldn’t drink the water or why we were getting migraines on certain days,” says Chavira. “The documentary helped me realize what was happening to me and my family who grew up in Commerce City.”This is not to say the environmental concerns around the refinery haven’t been addressed by state officials on some level. In 2012, Suncor was ordered to pay a $2.2 million fine to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for releasing high levels of benzene, a cancer-causing compound, into the environment; more recently, in 2020, Suncor also had to pay $9 million for excess emissions of volatile organic compounds, including hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide. Yet there continue to be major frustrations from locals, as the refinery can continue to operate and essentially pay its way out of its multiple violations. “A call to action would be for the city to hold accountability toward Suncor,” says Chavira. “They [can] have a certain amount of emitting pollutants in the air, and they always surpass it, and the city doesn’t really hold them accountable. [We need to] get the community aware about it—all across Denver or even nationally.”Locals say they are disproportionately affected by cancer, asthma, migraines, and diabetes.

Photographed by Carlos JaramilloThe refinery isn’t the Dead and company burgettstown pa the pavilion at star lake 2023 shirt Furthermore, I will do this only thing sparking environmental concerns in Commerce City, either. On the north side of the city, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal—which is now a wildlife refuge—is also located on more than 15,000 acres of contaminated soil. (The US Army once manufactured chemical weapons at the arsenal.) “It’s all caged up because you can’t dig the soil,” says Chavira. For the activist, it’s Suncor and Rocky Mountain’s proximity to housing developments in Commerce City and Montbello that is a major concern. She’s not surprised, however, that it still isn’t a statewide concern. “Both communities are low income and communities of color, so who’s gonna say anything?” she says.
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