Don't Frack at Platform Hilda - SB Channel

Join us at a rally to urge the Obama administration to deny an application for offshore fracking.

Perhaps emboldened by the election of Trump, an oil company just applied for a permit to frack off the California coast—it’s the first application since the feds lifted a moratorium on the controversial process earlier this year. If the feds grant the permit, oil companies would soon begin fracking in the wildlife-rich Santa Barbara Channel --home to sea otters and endangered blue whales -- putting our coasts and beaches at risk.

We need to send a clear message to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - the agency in charge of the permitting process - that Californians oppose this toxic technique, and that it has no place in our ocean. Join us at a rally to tell BOEM to deny this permit to frack our oceans.

What: Rally against offshore fracking in the Santa Barbara Channel

When: Thursday, December 15th at 11:00 am – 1:00pm

Where: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management office, 760 Paseo Camarillo, Camarillo, CA

Oil companies have permission to annually dump up to 9 billion gallons of wastewater, including fracking chemicals, into federal waters off the California coast. That's why the Center for Biological Diversity won a moratorium to halt fracking off California's coast earlier this year. But federal officials lifted the moratorium in May even after acknowledging the risks fracking poses to the environment.

With Trump’s presidency looming, and his promise of unfettered drilling with it, now is the time to stand up and send a clear message to the agency that offshore fracking is inherently dangerous; it makes people sick and poisons our ocean, and it has to stop now. Join us on Thursday in Camarillo.

Permit application available here: https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/apm-s62frac.pdf. Not yet approved by BSEE. Estimated start date is 9/1/2017. Company is DCOR, LLC for hydraulic fracturing off platform Gilda.

Routine flaring Platform Holly in SB Channel. More gas burned=accelerated climate change.

VCSTAR 2008 Article: How offshore production makes little difference meeting US oil demand compared to the pollution of our ocean and risk to our coastline.

Join us tonight

Ventura County Climate HUB monthly meeting, Thurs, 12/8, 6:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura, 5654 Ralston St fellowhip hall at the back parking lot. We will have a circle ceremony recognizing UN Human Rights Day, the right to clean water, and the rights of the Lakota in their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Then watch this weeks' episode of "Years of Living Dangerously", a National Geographic Channel documentary series about the effects of climate change and people working on solutions.

Would you like to host a screening for a few friends or a group? You can buy a Season Pass or select episodes on iTunes. We also have it on a jumpdrive or will do the projection for a group of 15 or more. Email vcclimatehub@gmail.com.