Santa Barbara County Action Network urges you to join with community members to tell the State Lands Commission to say "NO" to using old underwater pipelines to transport offshore oil.
Community rally is outside of Goleta City Hall at 11:15 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 29.
This is a chance to speak up while the commission meets in our county. Public Comment is at noon in city hall. Remote testimony is also possible. For information on giving testimony and the agenda, click here: https://www.slc.ca.gov/meeting/08-29-24-agenda/
SBCAN, along with community partners, continues to oppose this project with the help of the Environmental Defense Center.
Read the information from the Sierra Club below for more details:
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Dear Sierra Club members and supporters:
Please join community members this Thurs, Aug. 29, at 11:15 am in front of Goleta City Hall to say NO to the proposed restart of Exxon's former offshore oil drilling operations on the Gaviota Coast.
Please fill out this RSVP form to let us know you're coming.
Find talking points HERE to give your public comment to the CA State Lands Commission immediately following the rally
Background:
The California State Lands Commission is meeting at Goleta City Hall on Thursday, Aug. 29 at Noon. The Commission, a three-member panel appointed by the Governor, has regulatory authority over oil and gas pipelines in California waters.
Houston-based Sable Offshore (NYSE:SOC) is seeking permission from the California State Lands Commission to use Exxon's old underwater pipelines.
Offshore oil drilling was shut down after the 2015 Refugio Beach disaster, in which a corroded onshore Plains Pipeline burst sending 450,000 gallons of crude into Santa Barbara Channel resulting in at least 202 dead birds and 99 dead mammals, including at least 46 sea lions and 12 dolphins.
Sable must secure the CA State Lands Commisison's permission to transport oil via pipeline in California waters.
Our community needs you!
Community rally outside: 11:15 am
Public comment inside: 12 Noon.
The world’s climate scientists say we need to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Allowing this project to move forward would only worsen the crisis, driving more mass extinction and human suffering. California crude oil is some of the most carbon-intensive in the world. |
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"Stand in the Sand" protest in Santa Barbara on May 31, 2015, after the Refugio State Beach oil disaster. Newly-formed Sable Offshore Corp. seeks to start the three Exxon oil platforms shut down for nearly a decade. Photo by Steven Storm.
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