I’m just writing to congratulate Sentinel Peak Resources on its recent approval from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to pump toxic waste into a groundwater aquifer beneath Price Canyon—after two years of already doing this without a permit, that is.
Thanks also to the California Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources for helping to make it happen. That’s definitely worth a round of Champagne in some skyscraper penthouse in Houston!
Also, many thanks to Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, et al., for contributing to the effort by spending $8 million in lying to the people of this county and buying the Measure G election last fall. That was huge.
By the way, Sentinel Peak, your signs on Price Canyon Road have an embarrassing typo. Instead of “Thanks to SLO County for your support,” shouldn’t your signs say “Thanks to Big Oil for your support”?
Christopher Hamma
Arroyo Grande
This article appears in Pride 2019.
Well said Mr. Hamma. Cheers to a celebration of health risk from local water pollution, expansion of drilling for unneeded local oil (some of the dirtiest to extract on the planet), and more and more CO2 generated from burning gas for steam injection – thank you Sentinel Peak Resources, your Texas investors, and the Big Oil for helping make America great again!.
While we are at it…
Thank you, SLO county progressive transplants, for making your agenda so clear and unreasonable that a majority of the population said “No thank you”. Well played.
Doug: There is no local water pollution and SLO County uses more oil than it produces, therefore, the production IS needed. I’d love to see some cited evidence that proves otherwise.
All plants and animals in the history of planet Earth have been solar powered. Maybe with the climate catastrophe we are facing, unreasonable voices like ‘voice of reason’ will wake up and smell the methane.