Last week the California Sierra Club and 24 other environmental organizations signed a letter opposing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to extend offshore oil drilling leases on the California Coast off Santa Barbara, supposedly to help fill the $19 billion hole in the California State budget crisis. The Tranquillon Ridge project would net no more than $100 million this year. |
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)