The city became the 100th West Coast community to officially oppose the expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling, the Surfrider Foundation said.
The Huntington Beach City Council voted Tuesday night to support a ban on new offshore oil drilling and similar activities off the coast of California.Oct. 1 oil spill a few miles off the Huntington Beach coast
Carr emphasized that the city receives nothing from the oil platforms off the coast. City spokeswoman Jennifer Carey said Huntington Beach makes $632,000 a year in oil well license taxes and pipeline franchise fees — less than 1% of the city’s general fund budget.“Fortunately, the oil spill was a lot less than [a previous high-end estimate of 144,000 gallons], but it was still thousands of gallons that reached our shoreline,” Carr said.
Moser shared a story about how her late father, who had Parkinson’s disease and dementia, totaled his truck after hitting a pole.
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