<div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry folks,<br><br>I forgot to put my signature on this.<br><br></div>Ed Oberweiser<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, karinajoy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karinacotler@gmail.com" target="_blank">karinacotler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Once again, a post without a signature. Just so everyone knows, there is a way to trace every email sent -- so don't think you can yank our chains and be invisible. I know who sent that mysterious post...<div>
<br></div><div>Saw Gasland II last night. A must see!! The oil industry is illegally using PsyOps on the American people - treating us as "insurgents" and "eco-terrorists" for protecting our water, air and property rights. And they are blatantly teaching the use of lies to create uncertainty and confusion. We need to find a way to buy the rights to show this film all over the county.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Blessings on this beautiful spring day!</div><div><br></div><div>Karina</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 4, 2014, at 4:17 AM, Community Rights Network wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr"><div><span></span><span><font size="5">Western States Petroleum
Association spent $6.1 million in 3 months </font></span>
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<div><span>by Dan Bacher</span></div>
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<div><span>The new numbers for the
amount of money spent on lobbying in Sacramento in the first
three months of 2014 just came in from the Secretary of
State's Office and guess who finished first? </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Yes, holding fast to
number one is that august body of environmental stewardship
known as the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA),
"making sure lawmakers don't forget about the Big Oil little
guy," according to Stop Fooling California. (<a href="http://www.stopfoolingca.org/" target="_blank">http://www.stopfoolingca.org</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>The Western States
Petroleum Association, the most powerful corporate lobbying
group in Sacramento, spent $6.1 million in just 3 months.
Amazingly, this is more money than the association has spent
in any one year over the past five years! </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span>The organization spent
$5,331,493 in 2009, $4,013,813 in 2010, $4,273,664 in 2011,
$5,698,917 in 2012 and $4,670,010 in 2013. </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span>In spite of all of this
money spent, a bill imposing a moratorium on fracking and
acidizing for oil extraction in California passed through the
Senate Environmental Quality Committee on April 30 by a 5 to 2
vote. Senators Mark Leno, Jerry Hill, Loni Hancock,
Hannah-Beth Jackson and Fran Pavley voted for Senate Bill
1132, while Senators Ted Gaines and Jean Fuller voted against
it. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Authored by Senators
Holly Mitchell and Mark Leno, SB 1132 would require the
Natural Resources Agency to facilitate an "independent
scientific study" on well stimulation treatments (fracking and
acidizing) and their hazards and risks to natural resources
and public, occupational, and environmental health and safety
by <span><span>January 1, 2015</span></span>. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>“People must come
before profits,” said Senator Mitchell after the vote. “My
community needs jobs, but those jobs need to be safe for
workers and surrounding communities.” </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span>Catherine Reheis-Boyd,
President of the Western States Petroleum Association and
former Chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA)
Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force to create so-called "marine
protected areas" in Southern California, wasn't very happy
with the results of the Committee vote, especially after her
organization spent $6.1 million lobbying at the Capitol over
the past three months. You can bet that her association and
the oil companies will spend many millions more attempting to
defeat this bill in the Legislature in coming months.</span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>In her blog on the WSPA
website (<a href="http://www.wspa.org/blog/post/where-and-whom-we-stand-sb-1132" target="_blank">http://www.wspa.org/blog/post/where-and-whom-we-stand-sb-1132</a>),
Reheis-Boyd stated: </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span><i>"The passage of
Senate Bill 1132 from the Senate’s Environmental Quality
Committee is neither a surprise nor an indication that this
poorly written legislation is gaining support. </i></span></div>
<div><span><i><br>
</i></span></div>
<div><span><i>While the theater of
SB 1132 plays out in Sacramento, SB 4 is already the law of
the land throughout California. Last year, Governor Brown
signed into law regulations that received strong bipartisan
support in the Assembly and Senate. Many of those 'rallying'
around SB 1132 voted for SB 4, the strongest and most
stringent regulation on hydraulic fracturing in the
country. </i></span></div>
<div><span><i><br>
</i></span></div>
<div><span><i>Anti-oil activists
are attempting to push hydraulic fracturing moratoriums in
Sacramento and in local governments throughout the state – a
strategy that just suffered a major setback. Their tactics
include spreading misinformation about water use, chemicals,
industry transparency, and jobs. </i></span></div>
<div><span><i><br>
</i></span></div>
<div><span><i>Shockingly, the
anti-oil camp’s attacks on oil production reached new lows
last week when several of the leading anti-oil groups took
aim at petroleum industry workers when they dismissed as
unwanted and unworthy the hundreds of thousands of jobs our
industry supports. This disappointing tactic was summed up
in the headline of a recent letter to the Los Angeles Times:
'Some jobs aren’t worth it.' </i></span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span><i>Of course the
petroleum industry cares about California’s environment and
water supply. This is why we believe SB 4 provides important
and necessary oversight. Hydraulic fracturing is not just a
new industry fad that was concocted for the sole purpose of
harming humanity. The reality is quite the opposite. Lost in
the hysteria is the historic fact that hydraulic fracturing
has been employed in California for nearly six decades
without environmental incident or hazard. It is why the
United States is experiencing a welcome and rewarding energy
renaissance that is benefiting consumers nationwide and
dramatically improving our nation’s energy security." </i></span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Yes, Reheis-Boyd and
her industry really "care" about California's environment and
water supply. That's why she and her cohorts on the MLPA
Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force made sure that the
questionable "marine protected areas" created in Southern
California under her "leadership" fail to protect the ocean
from fracking, oil drilling, pollution, corporate aquaculture,
military testing and all human impacts on the ocean other than
fishing and gathering. (<a href="http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/mpa/brtf_bios_sc.asp" target="_blank">http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/mpa/brtf_bios_sc.asp</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Reheis-Boyd, state
officials and MLPA advocates ensured that these alleged
"marine protected areas" were good for big oil and ocean
industrialists - and bad for fishermen, tribal gatherers and
the public trust. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>In one of the biggest
conflicts of interest in recent California history,
Reheis-Boyd also "served" on the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Forces
to create so-called "marine protected areas" on the North
Coast, North Central Coast and Central Coast. She also
currently sits on a federal "marine protected areas" panel. </span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span>As she was serving on
these panels, the oil industry was engaging in a frenzy of
environmentally destructive fracking operations off the
Southern California coast, as revealed in an Associated Press
and Freedom of Information Act investigation last year. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>The process that
Reheis-Boyd oversaw created "state marine reserves" that
violate the traditional gathering rights of the Yurok Tribe
and other California Indian Tribes to harvest seaweed, mussels
and fish, as they have done for thousands of years. In
addition, the privately funded process rejected numerous
requests by Yurok Tribe scientists and lawyers to present
scientific studies that countered the terminally flawed and
incomplete "science," based on flawed assumptions. (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/07/15/lop_yurok_6-29_11.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/07/15/lop_yurok_6-29_11.pdf</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>As Frankie Joe Myers,
Yurok Tribe member and Coastal Justice Coalition organizer,
said before a direct action protest against the MLPA
Initiative in Fort Bragg in July 2010, “The whole process is
inherently flawed by institutionalized racism. It doesn’t
recognize Tribes as political entities, or Tribal biologists
as legitimate scientists.” (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/24/18654645.php" target="_blank">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/24/18654645.php</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>More recently, the
industry that Reheis-Boyd says "cares about California's
environment and water supply" was engaged in over 100
violations of California’s new public disclosure rules for
fracking and other dangerous oil production methods. The
violations were uncovered by a Center for Biological Diversity
analysis of records from the state, the oil industry and South
Coast air quality regulators. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>In a letter to Governor
Jerry Brown, the Center pointed out that state regulators with
the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources have failed
to disclose legally mandated reports for 47 frack jobs and
notices for more than 100 uses of other risky oil production
techniques. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>“This lack of
disclosure underscores the failure of current regulations and
the need for strong action that will protect public health and
safety and the environment,” the letter says. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>“Californians are in
the dark about dangerous fracking in their communities because
Gov. Brown’s oil regulators won’t follow their own minimal
notification rules,” said Center attorney Hollin Kretzmann in
a statement. “These regulatory failures are another reminder
of the urgent need to halt fracking to protect our air and
water from contamination. Gov. Brown must recognize that
halting fracking and the other dangerous well stimulation
methods is the only way to protect Californians." </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>The problems revealed
by the Center’s analysis include the following: </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>• Missing Fracking
Reports: At least 47 frack jobs conducted in Southern
California in January and February do not have a well
stimulation report on DOGGR’s website, despite a requirement
that such documents be posted 60 days after the fracking
event. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>• Late posting: Dozens
of other fracking reports were posted late — and only after
the Center informed state officials of the unlawful delay. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>• Missing chemical data
- Other fracking reports are missing critical information,
including the chemical composition of fracking waste fluid and
where this fluid was disposed of. A Kern County oil company
was recently fined for disposing of such fracking wastewater
in an unlined pit. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>• Missing Acidizing
Notices: The state’s website does not show notices for 57 uses
of acidization in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Acidizing
uses high quantities of hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids in
combination with other harmful chemicals to dissolve
oil-bearing formations underground. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>• Missing Gravel
Packing Notices: Gravel packing, a well stimulation method
that uses dangerous chemicals, has occurred in Orange and Los
Angeles counties approximately 51 times so far this year,
according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Yet state oil regulators have not posted a notice of a single
instance of gravel packing from anywhere in the state, despite
regulations requiring such notification. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>A recent Center report
also found that fracking, acidizing and gravel packing
operations employed 12 dangerous “air toxic” chemicals
hundreds of times in the Los Angeles Basin over a period of a
few months. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>For more information,
go to: <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-04-30-2014.html" target="_blank">http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-04-30-2014.html</a> </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>If the petroleum
industry really "cares about California’s environment and
water supply" like Reheis-Boyd claims it does, why did the
industry engage in 100 violations of California’s new public
disclosure rules for fracking and other dangerous oil
production methods, as documented in the Center for Biological
Diversity's report? </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>You can bet that
Reheis-Boyd's group and Big Oil will continue to spend
millions this year to defeat Senate Bill 1132 and any other
bill that challenges their plan to frack California. A ground
breaking report released on April 1, 2014 by the ACCE
Institute and Common Cause reveals that Big Oil spent $123.6
million to lobby elected officials in California over the past
15 years, an increase of over 400 percent since the 1999-2000
legislative session, when the industry spent $4.8 million. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>The report also
examines historical campaign contributions by the largest
firms in the oil and gas industry. Over the last fifteen
years, Big Oil has spent $143.3 million on political
candidates and campaigns – nearly $10 million per year and
more than any other corporate lobby. (<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/14/how-big-oil-bought-sacramento/" target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/14/how-big-oil-bought-sacramento/</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>When combined, Big
Oil's lobbying spending and campaign spending in Sacramento
amounts to $266.9 million over 15 years. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>Yet this is mere pocket
change, the "cost of doing business" for the oil industry,
since the industry makes many billions of dollars in profits
every year as gas prices soar for consumers at the pumps. The
oil industry has made over $31 billion in profits in 2014 to
date. (<a href="http://www.stopfoolingca.org/" target="_blank">http://www.stopfoolingca.org/</a>)</span></div>
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<div><span><font size="5">Take Action Now! </font></span></div>
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</span></div>
<div><span>As the oil industry
plans the expansion of fracking under Senate Bill 4 and gas
prices soar at the pumps to boost oil industry profits,
Governor Jerry Brown is fast tracking the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels. The
proposed tunnels would divert Sacramento River water for use
by corporate agribusiness interests, Southern California water
agencies and oil companies expanding fracking and steam
injection operations. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>The construction of the
twin tunnels would hasten the extinction of Central Valley
salmon, Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish
species, as well as imperil salmon and steelhead populations
on the Trinity and Klamath rivers. The tunnels would not
create one single drop of new water - and would do nothing to
alleviate the current drought if they were in place right
now. </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>On <span><span>March 4</span></span>, Restore the
Delta and Food and Water Watch revealed that much of the area
that the oil industry could frack for oil and natural gas in
California is located in and near toxic, drainage-impaired
land farmed by corporate agribusiness interests on the west
side of the San Joaquin Valley. (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/05/18751984.php" target="_blank">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/05/18751984.php</a>) </span></div>
<div><span><br>
</span></div>
<div><span>To sign a petition
urging Governor Jerry Brown to ban fracking in California, go
to the Food and Water Watch action alert:<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=193" target="_blank">https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=193</a>
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