Valero Energy Inc. extends a hand to the spring flooding victims with a $50,000 donation to the Red Cross

MONTREAL, May 17, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ - To support the efforts by the Red Cross to assist flood victims in Quebec, Valero Energy has made a $50,000 donation to the Red Cross Spring Floods Appeal.     

Valero Energy is mindful of the hardships that the flood victims will have to overcome and believes it is important to support the responses of the Red Cross to assist those who have been most affected. More than a hundred volunteers are working in shifts each day to offer a reassuring presence and tend to the various needs of flood victims in terms of housing, food, child care and family services. "We believe it is important to demonstrate solidarity. It is therefore only fitting to provide assistance to individuals and families affected by this situation," explained Louis-Philippe Gariépy, the Director of Public and Government Affairs.  

About Valero

Valero Energy Inc. owns and operates the Jean Gaulin refinery in Lévis, which has a refining capacity of some 265,000 barrels per day, along with several other logistics infrastructures in Eastern Canada, including the Montreal East oil terminal, the most important of its kind in Canada, and the Pipeline Saint-Laurent that links the Lévis refinery and its Montreal facilities. Its Canadian operations also make it a leader, among others, in the field of industrial and commercial sales of petroleum products, and as a supplier to resellers and independent distributors. Valero Energy Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation.  

SOURCE Valero Energy Inc.

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