most states on the coasts have blue voters who live right along the coast line.
you can see that when looking at a vote by county map. red counties blue counties.
or, as rwrs would say...where the rich libs live. sigh.
they would of course then be most affected by drilling and spills and just being fucked with by
threats to drill black goo from the already fucked up remaining continental shelf.
its just a threat. its what pussiegrabber does. bullshits.
That's my impression too, he's a bullshittin.
Earlier in this thread I said the time to bring any drilling about nullified this as being a real issue. It would be ten years at best before a drilling rig can go to sea.
This is a link which backs up that assertion. The California coast is broken into three zones.
"The plan calls for Northern California and Central Coast waters to be opened for new leasing starting in 2021 and Southern California in 2020."https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/04/ ... istration/What that sentence does not say, but which is detailed on a map in the article is that each of those three zones are split into two zones, making it six zones. The plan calls for the first half of the Northern California and Central Coast waters to be opened for new leasing starting in 2021 and the first half of Southern California in 2020. In essence that being an auction. The second half of each of those zones will be go up on the auction block for leasing for Northern California and Central Coast waters to be opened for new leasing starting in 2023 and Southern California in 2023.
They won't be completed with even the leasing stage by the time, assuming Trump gets elected to a second term, finishes his stay in the White House. Realistically those leasing dates are best estimates of when such an event like auctioning off those parcels of ocean bottom could possibly occur. The paperwork to bring about a lease like that will fill box cars. Because the government is the lessee. The reason the government has split those three zones into six zones is they couldn't possibly do their part of that paperwork and such any faster than that. Any oil company which wishes to place a bid in that auction for even one parcel of sea bottom will have to speculative invest a considerable sum just to do the exploration, planing, and paperwork before they would lay down any money for a lease. They will need to set up a land, or in this case a sea bottom, office for which they will have to rent or buy an office building and staff it.
I grew up in a home where those land office field workers came to call. Listened in while my parents discussed leasing their land to their oil company each time it came up for renewal. Every few years my parents would hear their offers and from among them decide who got that lease for that next three year period. I've inherited some sense of that paperwork, from time to time I have to deal with the land office for the consortium of oil companies who eventually became partners to developed a production CO2 field over that dome.
The reason this went on year after year was because they did want to drill there. They needed to secure those parcels of land before they could spend the money to enter the next stage of development the planning of the field itself, drilling test wells, and getting logistics and infrastructure lined up. In this case getting an XL pipeline right of way approved, getting it built. It took all of the time while I was growing up, from the time I was about 6 until the first CO2 shipped, about the time I was 25. 19 years of lead time. Literately tons (2,000 lbs/ton) of paperwork had been done. We've got 55 years of it, amounting to 600ibs of that paper it in our house. And our stake in that project is so minor as to be comparable to a flea on the hair on frog on the tree lodged in the hole at the bottom of the sea.