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December 30, 2008

Gov’t Pushes Oil Drilling Off California Coast
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports the federal government is taking
steps that may open California’s coast to oil drilling in as few as
three years. The Interior Department has moved to open some or all
federal waters for exploration as early as 2010. Rigs could go up in
2012. This could result in the construction of dozens of platforms off
the coasts of Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt. The bans that protected
both of the nation’s coasts beginning in 1981 ended this year when
Congress let the moratorium lapse.



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