{"id":35288,"date":"2018-06-20T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35288"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:18:26","slug":"california-lacks-real-marine-protection-as-offshore-drilling-expands-in-state-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35288","title":{"rendered":"California Lacks Real Marine Protection as Offshore Drilling Expands in State Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/20\/california-lacks-real-marine-protection-as-offshore-drilling-expands-in-state-waters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">California Lacks Real Marine Protection as Offshore Drilling Expands in State Waters<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>One of the big news stories neglected by\u00a0both the mainstream and \u201calternative\u201d media is the capture of California politics and the regulatory apparatus by Big Oil and other corporate interests in recent years\u00a0\u2013 and the massive expansion of offshore drilling that has occurred in state waters under the helm of Governor Jerry Brown as a consequence of this regulatory capture.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous power that Big Oil exerts over California regulators was inadvertently revealed in a March 10, 2012\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/10\/coastlines-new-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article in the Santa Barbara Independent<\/a>\u00a0that discussed a so-called \u201cmarine protected area\u201d created under the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative that went into effect on January 2 of that year.<\/p>\n<p>The official language for the marine protected area in the Isla Vista area of Santa Barbara County, the Campus Point State Marine Conservation Area, reads, \u201c<em>Take of all living marine resources is prohibited, except for take pursuant to operation and maintenance of artificial structures inside the conservation area \u2026 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe caveat, allowing marine resources to be taken near artificial structures, exists to allow oil production representatives the ability to maintain equipment, including pipelines, located in this area,\u201d the article by Cat Heushul stated.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the reporter failed to mention the even bigger story \u2014\u00a0that\u00a0Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association, actually served as the Chair of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative to create this \u201cmarine protected area\u201d and others like it in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>She also served on the task forces to create \u201cmarine protected areas\u201d on the Central Coast, North Central Coast and North Coast. If that is not a huge, glaring conflict of interest, I do not know what is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Lacks Real Marine Protection as Offshore Drilling Expands in State Waters One of the big news stories neglected by\u00a0both the mainstream and \u201calternative\u201d media is the capture of California politics and the regulatory apparatus by Big Oil and other corporate interests in recent years\u00a0\u2013 and the massive expansion of offshore drilling that has occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2688,101,5493,20581,496,20582,588],"class_list":["post-35288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-big-oil","tag-california","tag-counterpunch","tag-dan-bacher","tag-mainstream-media","tag-marine-protection","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35288\/revisions\/35289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}