Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 8:30 a.m., RALLY at Betteravia Government Center, 511 Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria.
Join Environmental Defense Center, Sierra Club Los Padres Chapter and others to OBJECT to three risky projects proposed by ERG, Aera Energy, and PetroRock, would drill 760 new wells in the Cat Canyon Oil Field near Santa Maria. These projects would more than triple oil production in Santa Barbara County and derail any hope of a clean energy future for our community. “Santa Barbara County is facing a massive expansion in oil production using much dirtier and more dangerous extraction methods such as cyclic steam injection and acidizing.
EDC and our client, Sierra Club Los Padres Chapter, have been working since 2017 to protect our community from the threats posed by these three projects, but today we need your help fighting ERG’s Project – the company that is farthest along in the administrative review process.”
Join us and show the force behind protecting our corner of the world. We all choose to live here for different reasons. These projects will change the character of our part of the Central Coast beyond repair and set precedent for the other two projects and leasing BLM land to the oil companies. Those BLM projects would effect the whole region and us directly in Lompoc.
Wednesday, March 13 at 9:00AM, the Santa Barbara Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on ERG’s Project.
“Please join us and tell the Planning Commission to deny the Project and protect our climate, air quality, water resources, and public health. ERG is proposing to drill 233 new thermally enhanced, steam injection oil wells, producing an estimated 10,000 barrels of oil per day. WE NEED YOUR VOICE!”
