Santa Barbara County votes to ban new onshore oil drilling
Reported byThe Santa Barbara Independent ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on September 15 to ban all new onshore oil drilling in the county, the first step in a planned phaseout of existing onshore oil development. The last new drilling proposal was approved in 2014.
The ban applies only to new drilling proposals; existing operations will be phased out over a timeline still being determined through an amortization process expected to take years. Legal challenges are anticipated.
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