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"For all the progress the United States has made on climate change—having just
finally passed a bill aimed at reducing emissions—it’s still a political third
rail to go directly after the leading driver of rising temperatures: fossil
fuels. The Inflation Reduction Act’s passage in Congress was premised on
providing giveaways to oil and gas drillers, whose indefinite profits
Democratic Party leaders don’t see as incompatible with a habitable future. For
years that was also the case in California, which clung to its contradictory
status as both a leader on climate policy and a prolific fossil fuel producer.
That’s now changing.
Among the suite of climate bills the California legislature passed in recent
weeks, at the request of California Governor Gavin Newsom, is a remarkable,
once unthinkable challenge to the state’s oil and gas industry. Senate Bill
1137 prohibits new wells from being built within 3,200 feet of schools, nursing
schools, hospitals, and other “sensitive receptors,” per the bill’s text. Still
bolder is the bill’s effective ban on approvals to “rework” existing wells
within the same radius: preventing the state’s oil and gas regulator (CalGEM)
from approving Notices of Intention to drill, redrill, deepen, or permanently
alter well casings within the “health protection zone” established by S.B.
1137. Roughly a quarter of California’s operational wells—those within the
setback zone—could need to relocate or shut down in the coming years. Drillers
and their trade associations are predictably apoplectic. So how did California
get comfortable taking on one of its most important industries?"
Via
Future Crunch Sep 23, 2022:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
