http://www.sbcountywaterguardians.org/
Calling all Santa Barbara County residents who love clean water and fresh
air!
To Ban Fracking (etc.) in Santa Barbara County, find the kick-off event
nearest you...
Santa Barbara kick-off:
Saturday, April 5 from 10-11 AM in Alameda Park, near Sola and
Anacapa.
10AM: Assemblymember Das Williams will speak
10:30AM: We will offer a brief training on how to gather valid
signatures, and how to register people to vote.
10:45AM: We will hand out petitioning materials, including awesome
t-shirts!
11AM: We will divide up into our regional teams (SB, Carp, SBCC and
Goleta) for introductions and petitioning assignments/sign-ups.
UCSB kick-off:
Saturday, April 5: Details TBD by our awesome UCSB team very soon.
Contact Corrie Ellis if you want to be sure to be invited to this!
corrieellis@gmail.com
North County Kick-off:
Sunday, April 6 at 1:30 at 104 South "H" Street.
Refreshments and fun to be had!
1:30 Informational presentation on our Healthy Air and Water Initiative
to Ban Fracking
1:45 Distribute petitioning materials and awesome t-shirts to our awesome
volunteers.
2:00 Sign up for petitioning times and places, to maximize our
productivity.
2:15 Brief training on how to gather valid signatures, and how to
register people to vote. (For those who have not yet attended.)
See you at one or all! Remember, this is the part we CAN control. We
can't control how much money they spend against us, or how many lies they
tell in the local media. But we ABSOLUTELY can work our tails off to get
onto the ballot!! LET'S DO THIS SB COUNTY!!!
Also, if you are unable to attend one of our petition trainings, please
join me for a conference call training session this Wednesday night,
8PM
Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1212
Meeting ID: 912-335-030
PIN: 3097
Onward!
Rebecca
(805) 865-2231
Read our initiative or sign up to volunteer here: SB County Water
Guardians
http://www.sbcountywaterguardians.org/
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared
impossible before they were done." Louis D. Brandeis
Santa Barbara County is under threat from
extreme oil extraction.
Oil companies have
identified thousands upon thousands of potential drill locations across
our region -- from Santa Maria to Carpinteria.
This is not the conventional oil that we've been drilling for a hundred
years. The only way to extract this oil is through the use of extreme
techniques like fracking, acidization and steam injection. Join the fight
to ban these dangerous techniques and protect our water, air, health and
climate.
This is not the conventional oil that we've been drilling for a hundred
years. The only way to extract this oil is through the use of extreme
extraction techniques including:
- Fracking: This technique involves injecting water, sand and
chemicals underground to break up rock and extract oil and gas. The
practice has been halted or banned in 12 states due to water
contamination issues, earthquakes and other problems.
- Acidization: This is similar to fracking, but instead of
breaking up the rock, it uses hydrochloric and hydrofloric acid to melt
the rock. According to the Centers for Disease Control, hydrofloric acid
is one of the most toxic chemicals in industrial use. The CDC lists it as
a potential chemical weapon. The United Steelworkers want its use phased
out of oil refineries entirely, calling it a risk too great for the
steelworkers and the 26 million Americans living near refineries.
- Steam Injection: This water-intensive process involves
steam-heating oil to 500 degrees to get it out of the ground. It is the
most energy-intensive form of oil production and is linked to groundwater
contamination. For instance, a recent 1+ million liter spill in Cold
Lake, Canada contaminated a lake and aquifer. In the Orcutt oil field
near Santa Maria, there have been 94 unexpected oil "seeps".
Sometimes it comes up in
"
violent eruptions." In one case, a California oil worker was
sucked into the ground and boiled alive. In another case, polluted water
leached into groundwater and killed millions of dollars of almond
orchards.
We must protect our County by placing a ban on these extreme extraction
techniques.
Oil production generates very few jobs and puts stresses on the rest of
our economy. Industrial oil production tends to crowd other things out.
It competes with agriculture for land and water. It creates blight that
discourages tourism and technology. It can negatively affect the value of
adjacent properties and farms. It increases asthma and other chronic
health problems, raising costs and crowding in health care
facilities.
Join our campaign
to qualify our initiative for the November 2014
election
.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
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