<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Wow, not just LA & us, but Santa Barbara too! Interesting, I wonder if they know about CELDEF? Should we try to connect? Jane<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Apr 7, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Baile Oakes <<a href="mailto:baileoakes@gmail.com">baileoakes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>This just in from Rachel Binah:</div><div><br></div><div>We are not the only county in our State going for a fracking ban !</div><div><br></div><div>whooooooweeeee !</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Jillian Johnson <<a href="mailto:cookiesinheaven@gmail.com">cookiesinheaven@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">April 7, 2014 11:03:33 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:unfrack-california@googlegroups.com">unfrack-california@googlegroups.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>[unfrack-california] Initiative to Ban Fracking in Santa Barbara Begins (SBView)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:unfrack-california@googlegroups.com">unfrack-california@googlegroups.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">This weekend, 150 volunteers and dignitaries, held a kickoff event in Alameda Park to start the process of gathering the necessary 13,200 registered county voters to qualify “<strong style="outline: 0px;">The Healthy Air and Water Initiative to Ban Fracking</strong>” for the November ballot. The initiative prohibits land uses related to fracking, cyclic steam injection and other high-intensity petroleum operations.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; line-height: 20px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><i>"We know that a majority of North and South County voters favor this ban, but we have been amazed by the level of support and enthusiasm. Hundreds of people have volunteered to help us gather signatures,” said Rebecca Claassen of Santa Barbara County Water Guardians. “We have volunteers who are ranchers and farmers who have been directly impacted by these dangerous techniques. We just can’t risk polluting our air and water from thousands of unconventional wells. It’s not right.”</i></font></span></p></blockquote><div><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The initiative will protect the health and environment of Santa Barbara County by amending the Santa Barbara County Comprehensive Plan and related codes to prohibit the use of any land within the County’s unincorporated area for fracking and other high-intensity petroleum operations. For more informat</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">ion about the initiative, call Katie Davis, 805-451-4574. To </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">help with the cause, <a href="http://www.sbcountywaterguardians.org/join-us">click here. -</a> </span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.santabarbaraview.com/initiative-to-ban-fracking-in-santa-barbara-begins/">http://www.santabarbaraview.com/initiative-to-ban-fracking-in-santa-barbara-begins/</a></span><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></span></div></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> -- <br> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Unfrack California" group.<br> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:unfrack-california+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">unfrack-california+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br> For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>.<br></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>crn mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:crn@lists.mcn.org">crn@lists.mcn.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/crn">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/crn</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>