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Posted on August 7 at 11:28 a.m.
I didn't realize this was a letter. There was no information to this effect on my web browser.
Quoted from the article referenced by Mr. Schmidhauser: "Thanks to a ruling in Santa Barbara Superior Court this week, it looks like the fate of Veneco Energy’s controversial Paredon Project will be decided by the residents of Carpinteria." That sounds like a community decision.
Posted on August 7 at 9:41 a.m.
It doesn't take very big bucks to learn that there has only been one big spill out of 7200 wells drilled in California's offshore, and that was 40 years ago.
Too powerful to be taxed? In 2008, Exxon paid $37 billion income taxes on $82 billion income. That's a 45% tax rate. What was your tax rate last year, Mr. Schmidhauser? On top of that, Exxon paid an additional $77 billion in state and local taxes.
I respect opposing views on this project and I can fully understand why people would not support it, but in suppoting an opposing view I think journalists owe their readers a bit more substance than uninformed and hostile ranting. People who disagree with Mr. Schmidhauser are not necessarily on Big Oil's PR dole, although that seems to be the only explanation he can offer for anyone with a different perspective than his.
It's an important decision. Thoughtfulness on both sides is needed.
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Posted on October 4 at 3:08 p.m.
P.S. Interesting.... MSN reports that the National Resources Defense Council has just named Huntington Beach one of the ten cleanest beaches in America.
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Posted on October 2 at 11:05 p.m.
Replying to the question on whether Carp can be both a beach town and oil town, Mr. Armendariz states: "Frankly, I don’t think you can be both.”
Been to Huntington Beach lately? It sits on top of the 6th largest oil field in California (over 1 billion barrels produced).
Ellwood and El Capitan beaches also sit on top of producing oil fields. Redondo Beach lies under the western end of the Torrance oil field.
I wouldn't say that any of those beaches or beach towns are ruined. In my opinion all of them seem like perfectly nice places to be.
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Posted on August 15 at 11:17 p.m.
JBC, TRairden,
This is nonsense. A lot of people, like myself, are interested in the issue and have the name "Venoco" tagged in Google alerts or some other type of RSS feed. An article such as this one is delivered to my inbox as soon as it's published. I get lots of articles like this one, in other industries and companies, and often respond quickly. It doesn't mean I, or others, work for some PR firm, as much as you would like to believe this, and as neatly as it would fit into your idea.
If as JBC says, most of the community is against Paredon, then they can vote against it. It's their community.
When it comes to oil, otherwise intelligent people become totally paranoid and irrational, and resort easily to conspiracy theories without giving other explanations a second thought.
On Carp Appeals Venoco’s Plans for Vote on Oil Proposal