Zach Friend
Posted on 12/20/2017 1:19:37 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The city and county of Santa Cruz has joined a growing number of communities suing oil companies over climate change, alleging a Big Tobacco-like plot in which the fossil fuel industry long concealed the dangers of its products from consumers.
The two lawsuits, filed Wednesday, blame the use and combustion of oil, gas and coal for accelerating sea level rise and threatening hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to the famously dramatic and much visited Santa Cruz County coast.
While the challenge is similar to other suits recently filed by waterfront communities in California, including San Francisco, the new cases in Santa Cruz County Superior Court go a step further. They seek to recoup not only the costs of rising seas but of other climate-related events, including big storms, widlfires and drought.
“We believe enough is enough,” said Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend, who represents the seaside city of Capitola as well as several miles of unincorporated shoreline.
“These types of weather events are going to become more common and we can expect more of the fires we saw in Wine Country and Southern California,” Friend said. “It is directly related to fossil fuel-based climate change.”
The tactic of suing oil companies over climate change has gained momentum over the past year in California, as regulation of the fossil fuel industry has eased under President Trump and scientists more precisely link the fallout of global warming to fossil fuels.
While past lawsuits of this kind have had limited success, the newer cases have yet to be taken up by the courts.
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Zach needs a good draggin behind a pick up
Indeed he is correct, we must stop the importation and sale of all oil based products to California at once.
All they need is a scientist to produce a chart of human affect versus ONE volcanic eruption. Gonna be hard to subpoena Mother earth.
Even if one is worried about carbon dioxide, it’s not the oil companies that are generating it - it’s all the folks who are burning their product. No oil company is forcing anyone to combust a single molecule of gasoline, diesel or kerosene.
And if they’re bothered by the fact that the oil companies make money from selling their stuff, then they should be suing all levels of government - federal, state and local - who combined make more money out the sale of oil products than do the petroleum giants.
nexus?
Oh..... one more thought
The oil companies, all of them should cease selling gasoline and diesel fuel in Santa Clara County immediately
Alternatively, the prices should be quintupled in Santa Clara county
Change parties, and I suspect you’ll have a growing following supporting you.
Ha ha ha...
Zach Friend
So following the “anthropomorphic climate change” argument to its conclusion, how long before GHG emitting humans (specifically caucasians) are penalized or elimiated for crimes against the planet ?
Good luck all you grey, broken down hippies.
California judge and jury. Proving it might be easier than you think.
(facts and science don’t matter)
OK. While filing your suit you may not use anything that is powered by fossil fuels or made out of them.
That’s gonna take some unbelievably heavy lifting
Unprovable. Because it doesn't exist.
Environmental wackos are responsible. Good forest management practices would prevent almost all these raging forest fires. The environmentalists would rather see huge swaths of timber go up in flame rather than protect them with good forest management practices
I would love to see these retards try to prove that global warming is real in court. The left-wing management of the oil companies will probably settle.
“Is santa cruze full of nitwits?”
Absolutely. The place is full of leftists. Brains installed backwards, and upside down.
Amen
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