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Sierra Club Responds to Big Green Article on IndyBay: 091409 Sierra Club denial: http://www.indybay.org/northcoast/ http://www.indybay.org/search/?page_id=41&include_posts=1&include_attachments=0&media_type_grouping_id=1 Resource Sustainability Advocate - Sierra Club California by Michael Endicott Thursday Sep 10th, 2009 1:51 PM; Sierra Club California is in clear opposition to the PXP proposed Oil Drilling project and to AB 1536 (Blakeslee). The only place we are listed in being in support is on a handout dropped by PXP lobbyists to legislators offices a couple of days ago. We have dropped our own piece which corrects that misrepresentation by PXP and pointing out that legislators received our opposition letter to that effect in May of 2009 when PXP tried its first legislative overide in the budget process. My (comment) response to Michael Endicott, is also on IndyBay, Monday Sept 14th, 2009 In the morning; Well I am really glad to hear that. And yes Michael Endicott of Sierra Club CA is signed on with some 60 environmental groups as being opposed to the PXP deal, though after the State Lands Commission denial. But as I referenced a 012709 press release that includes the Sierra Club CA support for the PXP deal, your reference seems to point to a more recent press release. The one I refer to was put out by the EDC website of Santa Barbara and found referenced at: http://www.noozhawk.com/news_releases/article/0127_state_lands_commission/ In the original PDF from the EDC, I have, it states: For Immediate Release January 27, 2009 Contact: Linda Krop or David Landecker, Environmental Defense Center (805) 963-1622 "Twenty-five (25) environmental groups from around the state have signed onto a letter of support for the Tranquillon Ridge proposal, which will guarantee an end to several existing oil and gas developments off the coast of Santa Barbara County." on page 3 of 4, at the top; Paul Mason, Deputy Director, Sierra Club CA So it seems: Sierra Club California was at one time, unitl the State Lands Commission decision, signed on to the PXP Tranquillon Ridge deal. And they may still be as it isn't clear that the Sierra Club CA opposes the PXP deal, or just the "end run" around the State Lands Commission by way of the budget process. Take a look at the hand your holding, read em and weep.  An Ocean of Politics, Plastics, Noise, Oil, and Fertilizers Sept 07 2009 Marine Debris, LNG, the current oil debate (PDF 162kb). "The PXP proposal was unusual because it was brokered by the Environmental Defense Center, Get Oil Out and other well-known Santa Barbara-based environmental groups. The groups agreed to lobby and promote the deal through the regulatory process in exchange for agreements from PXP to limit the number of years of drilling at the site (not more than 14 years), eliminate four offshore rigs, scrub greenhouse gas emissions and convey to the state some 4,000 acres of shore processing-facility land." Offshore Drilling Debate Won't End With Budget Accord:  http://www.sacbee.com/288/story/2075513.html California Assemblymember Pedro Nava, strong opponent of the deal even before Big Green, Represents the 35th District inluding Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, Pedro Nava is the Chair of the Banking and Finance Committee of the State of California. http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a35/Pressroom/Press/default.aspx If the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative was really about biology, and Essential Fish Habitat, connectivity and biodiversity, there would not be the rush to crush coastal fishing dependent communities in it's wake. "When 30 members of the (RSG) Regional Stakeholders Group, largely on the fishing side, signed a letter asking for a pause in the MLPA planning process to allow tardy guidance and scientific work to catch up, we were told to make do with the existing process." "In a provocation seemingly designed to prove the oft-heard assertion that the private money funding MLPA implementation is getting the environmental community the best policy they can buy" 05 29 09 Kayak Fishing Columnist, Paul Lebowitz  03 30 09 The MLPA, Marine Life Protection Act - Initiative, and the California Coast Makeover Licensing and Privatization Act. The  Back Door To Oil Back in 1991 simultaneous to the selection of Dr. Munitz' as CSU Chancellor, then State Senator Barry Keene introduced and later passed as a Senate-Assembly Joint Concurrent resolution that would make the Chancellor of the CSU system the head (of a yet to be formed) Center for the Resolution of Environmental Disputes, under the EPA. And, more recently, Barry Munitz (Dr. Munitz) has been a corporate director at Sallie Mae. http://www.leedsequity.com/team.cfm?section_sub_id=5&team_id=13 At around the same time in 1991, MAXXAM's President, John Seidl, was selected to be a vice president of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy and by Sept. 5, 2001 he was the Environmental Program Director for the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation's first four years. Dr. John "Mick" Seidl resigned from MAXXAM in 1992. Today he is Director of Enviro Fuels LLC and  St. Mary's Land Exploration, a  major oil exploration company.  St. Mary Land & Exploration Company, Denver, CO  Independent Oil & Gas, but ENRON and MAXXAM are not in his current bio! Endless More on John Seidl, ENRON, MAXXAM, The Nature Conservancy, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Barry Munitz, the MLPA and the California Coastal  Makeover Licensing and Privatization Act - Initiative.  DOWNLOAD  82kb PDF Astral Arts Mendocino registered as a Mendocino County business in the Spring of 2003. All artwork, media, audio, video, projet series names and individual titles are Copyright Protected ©2003 ©2004 ©2005 ©2006 ©2007 ©2008 ©2009 Author: Thomas DiFiore. All business logos and product line artwork, are marks with specific fonts used in the identification of goods or services as used in commerce, and are trademarks of the author or Astral Arts Mendocino.