California’s legacy of oil drilling should be just that, many environmentalists argue — relegated to the history books.
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Assn., says Newsom will take a pragmatic approach. Oil production in California helps support 368,000 “blue-collar jobs with high wages,” she said, and the state still will depend on oil and gas for fuel and energy even during its long-term transformation to a 100% renewable energy supply.
“Without domestic oil, it would mean we would have to import oil from other countries. Now you’re looking at more truck emissions, more ship emissions, possible oil pipeline mishaps. It’s counterproductive,” said Bill La Marr, executive director of the California Small Business Alliance, which has a membership of 26,000 companies statewide.A sea of pumpjacks used to lift liquid oil out of the well fill Oildale in north Bakersfield in 2016.
During the 2018 gubernatorial campaign, Newsom said he opposed fracking because it posed possible health and environmental risks. Brown, his predecessor,but environmentalists criticized him for balking at an outright ban of fracking, saying he thought the practice might offer California some economic opportunities.
“My wife went down and said hello to them, spent time with them,” Newsom said. “So I’m very familiar with the debate.” “He’s also been very good at pushing back hard at Trump’s climate change denials,” said Siegel, who heads the center’s climate law institute. “We need him to take that bold approach when it comes to the oil industry.”Siegel and others say the Newsom administration should take a first step of creating health and safety buffers around oil and gas wells in urban areas.
Close to 900,000 Californians live within a half-mile of an active oil or gas well, with the vast majority in Los Angeles and Kern counties, according to a study by the Environmental Defense Fund. There also are 378 schools or certified daycare facilities in California that are that close to an active well, the report found.
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