Action Alerts

Say NO to oil trucking. NC Roundtable cancelled.

Santa Barbara County Action Network asks you to join with community members to sign and share this petition and urge the County Planning Commission to VOTE NO on allowing Sentinel Peak Resources to truck crude oil 165 miles from Lompoc Hills to Coalinga. 
 

Provide public comment on 
Wednesday, February 12 at the County building in Santa Maria.
  • Say NO to oil trucking. NC Roundtable cancelled.

    Santa Barbara County Action Network asks you to join with community members to sign and share this petition and urge the County Planning Commission to VOTE NO on allowing Sentinel Peak Resources to truck crude oil 165 miles from Lompoc Hills to Coalinga. 
     

    Provide public comment on 
    Wednesday, February 12 at the County building in Santa Maria.
  • Membership Renewal - Happy New Year - 2024 Highlights

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    We hope you're enjoying the holidays.

    We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

    We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

    Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.

    You are integral to our success. You have helped us build a strong network of progressive activists, save prime farmland, create more affordable housing, work to improve water quality, fight increased trucking of fossil fuels and restarting of the pipeline that burst into the channel, and more.

    We are making our annual membership appeal now. If you recently paid your membership, or sponsored one of our events, or made a donation, you are already a member for 2025. We’re not asking you to contribute again – unless you want to! Mostly, we hope you will read our 2024 Highlights and continue to be involved with us.

    If you have not made a recent contribution, we hope you will become a member or renew your dues now to help us continue to doour vital work. We rely on grants, sponsors, donors, fundraisers and you to keep doing our educational and advocacy work.

    The average amount of dues our members pay is $10/month, however, we welcome higher or lower membership dues – whatever level works for you.

    Please make your donation online at sbcan.org/donations, or send a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456-6174. We especially like monthly contributions!

    We’ll send information soon on our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Election.

    If you are not receiving emails from us, please sign up for our Action Alerts at sbcan.org/sign-up, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/SBCANorg

    Enjoy the holidays! Happy New Year! And thanks again!

    Sincerely,

    Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
    Co-Executive Directors

  • Happy Holidays from SBCAN - 2024 Highlights - Stepping up our game!

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    We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

    We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

    Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.

    You are integral to our success. You have helped us build a strong network of progressive activists, save prime farmland, create more affordable housing, work to improve water quality, fight increased trucking of fossil fuels and restarting of the pipeline that burst into the channel, and more.

    We are making our annual membership appeal now. If you recently paid your membership, or sponsored one of our events, or made a donation, you are already a member for 2025. We’re not asking you to contribute again – unless you want to! Mostly, we hope you will read our 2024 Highlights and continue to be involved with us.

    If you have not made a recent contribution, we hope you will become a member or renew your dues now to help us continue to doour vital work. We rely on grants, sponsors, donors, fundraisers and you to keep doing our educational and advocacy work.

    The average amount of dues our members pay is $10/month, however, we welcome higher or lower membership dues – whatever level works for you. Please pay online at sbcan.org/donations, or send a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456-6174.

    We’ll send information soon on our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Election.

    If you are not receiving emails from us, please sign up for our Action Alerts at sbcan.org/sign-up, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/SBCANorg

    Enjoy the holidays! Happy New Year! And thanks again!

    Sincerely,

    Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
    Co-Executive Directors

  • Thank you for attending SBCAN's Inspiring Leadership Awards 2024

    Thank you for having joined us to celebrate these distinguished leaders!

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    SBCAN Inspiring Leadership Awards & Fundraiser 2024

    View more pictures from the event on our Facebook page.
    View the recorded event here.

  • Speak up against trucking oil. Join SM Riverkeepers

    Urge the County Planning Commission to deny the Sentinel Peak Truck Rack project
    Wednesday, Dec. 11
    Betteravia Government Center
    511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria
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      Dominion Road east of Orcutt, Oct. 11, 2021 - photo by SB County Fire

    Previously we have reported to you on this proposal to restart oil production in the hills above Lompoc and to truck crude oil 165 miles to Coalinga.

  • Inspiring Leadership Awards Friday, Nov 22; SM Riverkeepers

    Join us to celebrate these distinguished leaders!

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    SBCAN Inspiring Leadership Awards & Fundraiser

    Friday, November 22, 2024
    5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

    UCSB Faculty Club
    Building 581, off Ocean Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

    Park in Lot #23 on Ocean Drive

    If you call it up on Google Maps, search for UCSB Faculty Club, Isla Vista, CA 93117
    (Although the club is also called The Club & Guest House at UCSB, if you call up those directions on Google Maps, you'll be directed to the wrong parking lot.)

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    Click here for a larger image

    BUY TICKETS NOW!


     

  • SBCAN Combined Roundtable - Inspired Leadership Awards and Fundraiser - SM Riverkeepers

    See below for:

    1. Combined Roundtable
    2. Inspiring Leadership Awards
    3. Santa Maria Riverkeepers


     

    You're invited to

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    SBCAN Combined Roundtable
    5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14
    via Zoom 

    1. Santa Maria River Watershed Issues
      1. Santa Maria Riverkeepers
        1. Online Informational Meeting Tuesday, 7pm Nov. 19
        2. First planting 8:30am Saturday, Nov. 23
      2. Orcutt Creek Wetland
    2. Oil Issues
      1. Sentinel Peak Resources
      2. Sable Offshore
    3. SBCAN “Inspiring Leadership” Awards & Fundraiser 5pm Friday, Nov. 22
    4. America Recycles Day Friday, Nov. 15

    Register for the meeting to receive a Zoom link:        https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sf-mhrT4oHtY1kGRjTwL3djk2OI4FZQP0     

  • Support farmworkers on Tues; Combined RT on Thurs; and Inspiring Leadership Awards Nov 22

    SBCAN urges you to support farmworkers
    Tuesday, Nov. 12

    Panel Discussion at 3 p.m.
    Rally at 4 p.m.
    Public Comment at 4:30 p.m.

    Board of Supervisors Hearing Room
    Betteravia Government Center
    511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria

     Information from our allies at CAUSE:

  • SBCAN invites you to join SM Riverkeepers

    Santa Barbara County Action Network invites you to participate in a new group we are forming:

    Santa Maria Riverkeepers 

    SBCAN is starting this group to protect and enhance the Santa Maria River.

    
    

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    We will work on habitat restoration, water quality improvements, solutions to flooding, enhanced public access and advocating for policies that benefit the Santa Maria River watershed.

    Starting in November, we will be planting native plants and restoring habitat in several areas where encampments had been located in the Santa Maria riverbed near Magellan and Seaward Drives in Santa Maria. 

    We are doing this work in partnership with Channel Islands Restoration and the County of Santa Barbara. We need volunteers to help us.

  • SM Riverkeepers; Awards Reception; Combined RT

    Santa Maria Riverkeepers

    Santa Barbara County Action Network is forming a new group called Santa Maria Riverkeepers to protect and enhance the Santa Maria River.

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    We will work on habitat restoration, water quality improvements, solutions to flooding, enhanced public access and advocating for policies that benefit the Santa Maria River watershed.

    We hope you will join us.

    We will be planting native plants and restoring habitat in several areas where encampments had been located in the Santa Maria riverbed near Magellan and Seaward Drives in Santa Maria starting in November.