Posted on 06/03/2015 9:11:32 PM PDT by rey
North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire’s bill to permanently ban new oil drilling in state waters along the 840-mile California coast was approved by the Senate Wednesday and now moves to the Assembly.
Calling the coast a “worldwide wonder,” McGuire, D-Healdsburg, said his bill will protect the natural beauty of the coast, which draws 150 million visitors a year and contributes $40 billion to the state economy.
The bill closes a loophole in a 1994 law that banned oil and gas development in state waters, which extend out three miles from shore, but permitted exceptions in cases where state oil or gas deposits were being tapped by wells in adjacent federal waters.
More than 15,000 people signed a petition endorsing the bill, which drew support from a host of environmental groups, as well as fishermen’s organizations and Native American tribes.
Energy development is permanently banned in two marine sanctuaries that stretch 350 miles from Cambria in San Luis Obispo County to Manchester Beach in Mendocino County.
A similar measure lost on a 36-30 vote last year on the Assembly floor due to opposition from the oil industry, according to its author, Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, a co-author of McGuire’s bill.
Such a strong suicidal impulse, has Mexifornia!
I want to see President Cruz push for a law that restricts energy sales to states that enact extraction bans.
There need to be state referendums and a constitutional amendment.
Just plain STUPID
People remaining in Cali have a choice to leave. If they stay, they need not bitch about the choice to remain. Or live under Communism. Or support it with their taxes. The other 56 states are still accepting Americans.
Better idea: 800% tax on energy sold to states who refuse to exploit their existing resources to any reasonable degree. Half to the Feds, half given back to the state the energy came from.
..... Indeed ..... Liberals do not have the slightest understanding of the concept of "Cause and Effect."
,,,, Unfortunately California is a large state .... and the revenues are divided (Rather unevenly) amongst the entire 163,695 sq miles. Most districts are much less productive than others .... so you can imagine which areas get much more in return than what they contribute. And much is taken from that which actually do.
I want to see them cut off. Granted a massive tax would do it but I want to see them suffer from having the rest of the country point a finger and GIVE the finger.
But anything that hurts them is fine really. They ‘deserve’ it.
Some day there won’t be enough money to continue to finance all CA’s socialist utopian crap that’s killing the state.
Ya excerpt not half to the Feds. More like not one dime to the Feds.
As the article points out, the CA coastal economy is worth a lot more money than the offshore oil economy.
Offshore drilling is the exception. Only TX, LA, MS, AL, and AK allow offshore drilling, and none of them are known for having a significant coastal/tourist economy.
The way Eisenhower set it up was the inner continental shelf(3 miles) belongs to the state and the outer belongs to the feds and the states get none of the royalty from federal waters, but a state assumes all the risk of an oil spill in federal waters damaging the coastal economy.
In the 90s, the oil industry developed deep water technology which allowed them to drill far offshore, lessening the threat. And Congress began trying to implement "royalty sharing" which would give a state a portion of the federal royalty. CARA and CARA 2000 both failed and it was not until 2006 and GOMESA that TX, LA, MS, and AL were given royalty sharing in Area 181. It was also in that time period that Clinton and Lawton Chiles agreed to drilling "beyond 100 miles" after which George Bush and Jeb Bush agreed to "beyond 100 miles". In GOMESA, congress set it up as "beyond 125 miles".
After royalty sharing was given to the gulf states, the mid-Atlantic states began to consider offshore drilling, predicated on receiving royalty sharing and drilling only beyond 50 miles.
Very good info. I am however, still of the opinion that CA, with their over regulation, near socialist far left grip on the state, pension issues, etc., is on an unsustainable trajectory.
It is often said that the democrat party is a coalition between rich states and poor people while the GOP is a coalition between poor states and rich people.
yup
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