Posted on 06/01/2009 5:02:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES — California's three-member State Lands Commission has passed a resolution urging the Legislature not to support a proposed new oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast.
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Last year, Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production Co. unveiled an unprecedented deal with longtime anti-oil conservationists in Santa Barbara County to allow the state's first new offshore oil project in more than 40 years.
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The commission rejected the proposal in January. ...
Members of environmental groups accused the governor of attempting a power grab. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
CA has too many unelected bureaucrats and “advocacy” groups put there by people who don’t understand the issues.
The last thing California needs to balance its budget is increased tax revenue. /crap
No bailouts, California.
How can a “commission” over ride our duly elected legislature? The answer: They can’t, unless the government lets them do so. Time we took our government back and once again made it BY the people, for the people.
Yup, the world is full of NGOs and quasigubamental groups and such.
Who do they answer too?
Look at who appointed them.. but never voted for any of them..
So apparently these "environmental groups", who stand on principal and for the greater good of the environment, can be bought off, if the price is right.
We’re up to our ass in unelected bureaucrats appointed by the politicians to insulate themselves while carrying out leftist agendas. Our Austrian jackass of a failed Governor has been complicit in working this way. We need to get rid of every damned one of these useless Boards, Groups, Committees and Commissions. The whole idea is to regulate and control the voters while protecting our corrupt political elite.
Where do the environmentalists think that oil comes from? If they don’t see rigs do they think it comes from the gas station?
guess what? There are these crazy steel tubs that cross the globe full of the stuff. They occasionally crack up in the ocean somewhere. And we make other countries rich for sending these covered tubs across the oceans so we can wear our Crocks and gas our weed blowers and by God have all the benefits of petro-chemicals.
Wouldn’t it be more environmentally responsible to tap oil reserves close to home under our laws, control and technology?
No?
Okay, go back to your tofu. It’s is soaking in hexane...
I hear Calif. has some big reserves offshore. This could really help cut our dependence on imports, and give Calif. some badly needed tax revenue. Sounds like a win-win situation, unless you are an enviro extremist type.
Yes, not only that, but I understand that some of the fields off CA are just “capped off” and could be turned on rather quickly. Can anybody confirm this?
I say, if they are not willing to drill and thereby gain state revenue, then don’t ask me for a dime of my tax dollars to be sent to them to subsidize their anti-business ethos.
Soros Buys 5.4% of Plains Exploration, May 14, 2009
They don't need revenue. They need to cut spending.
Whatever revenue they receive, they'll spend 110% of it.
Time to starve the beast.
"The hydrocarbon seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel have a long history. Oil and gas leaks ... through faults, fractures and outcroppings to the seabed and coastal lands. The largest and most intense seepage occurs at the northern edge of the Santa Barbara Channel, in the Coal Oil Point seep field. Geologic evidence suggests that seepage has been ongoing for at least 500,000 years."
Linky: http://www.bubbleology.com/seeps/COPSeeps.html#Intro
So that explains it, thanks.
Isn't that the truth!
Please turn out the lights in Sacramento. This is embarrassing.
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