To the editor: Few communities are experiencing devastation that oil drilling can produce as much as Santa Barbara (“Under Trump, the Texas company pushes to restart the drilling of oil from Santa Barbara. Does it fold the laws of California?»April 6). We have seen our beaches soaked in petroleum, our stripped land and the wildlife. Offshore corp. is full of promises that its operations will be safe. However, his arrogant actions to ignore the cease-free orders from California Coastal Commission warn us that we cannot trust.
America produces more oil and gas than any other country on earth. Do we need to risk exceeding a virgin coastal area to get more? Despite the “Foret-Baby-Fell” policies of the Trump administration, the world leaders responsible for the fossil fuels and the transition to cheaper and safer renewable energies.
The climate action plan in 2024 of the city of Santa Barbara, “Together to Zero”, provides a roadmap aimed at reaching carbon neutrality by 2035. There is no room in this plan for more oil and gas.
Robert Taylor, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I was a young mother in Santa Barbara at the time of the 1969 spill, lawyer for the County of Santa Barbara at the time of the spill of Exxon Alaska, when the county had to consider “oil” of oil from offshore platforms, and I was a public member of the coastal commission in 2015, when the spill of the refugee – the same pipeline now.
This is exactly why we have a solid coastal act and on the scale of the state. The affirmation of sand according to which he does not need a permit for repairs in the respectful of the environment is specious, and he continued the Commission preventively. Now that Sand has acquired the Exxon processing plant, as well as the pipeline – 10 years after the refuge spill – for all our children and grandchildren, all permits should be revoked or reputed to be abandoned.
Jana Zimmer, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: The 1969 Santa Barbara disaster, the “environmental shot heard around the world”, contributed to the foundation of the most powerful American regulatory agency, California Coastal Commission. The agency was singular for many reasons. Above all, he was born by the people in the 1972 proposal 20 and codified four years later with the adoption of California Coastal Act. Oil drilling off our legendary coast was thus regulated. Sand, based in Texas, strives to unravel the regulatory authority of the Commission. We have to fight this effort. Contact the managers of Sacramento. Remember that our precious coast is the soul of California.
Tom Osborne, Laguna beach
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To the editor: In the same edition of April 6 of the Times, there is an article on a Texas oil company trying to resume the borehole off the coast of Santa Barbara, then a few pages later another article on an oil company which was deemed responsible for harm the coastal Louisiana (“Chevron ordered to pay more than $ 740 million to restore the Louisiana coast in the historic trial“April 6). What is this definition of madness?
Larry Harmell, Granada Hills
