From Noozhawk
NOOZHAWK: What experiences from your professional or personal life make you uniquely qualified to be an Assembly member?
SUSAN JORDAN: My decision to run for public office for the first time is the culmination of more than 40 years in the workforce in different capacities.
My dedication to community activism began in college and my early [...]

My campaign has sent out information to people in the 35th Assembly District reconfirming my opposition to offshore oil drilling and my opponent Das Williams’ support for the controversial Texas-based Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP) plan for new offshore oil drilling in California Sanctuary Act waters. (Link to mailer 1) (Link to mailer 2)
It [...]

This is a collection of what Das Williams has said about the Plains Exploration and Production Company deal to drill up to 30 new wells three miles off our coast:
“We don’t have to trust the corporation…. There is a private party agreement that’s enforceable as a contract between them and the environmental groups… So we [...]

SACRAMENTO — Delivering what could be the knockout punch to a Texas-based oil company’s plans to drill for oil in state waters off Santa Barbara County, the State Lands Commission on Tuesday said the proposal remains fatally flawed.
The Plains Exploration and Production Co. and its environmental supporters in Santa Barbara had hoped that a revised [...]

Jordan Calls on PXP to End Plans to Drill off Calif. Coast
Rejecting claims that the “new” Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) oil drilling agreement would end offshore oil drilling off the Santa Barbara County coast, the State Lands Commission staff has reviewed the proposal and concluded in an official memorandum that its terms and benefits [...]

For a copy of the new State Lands Commission report on PXP, go here.

Former Mayor of Carpinteria Dick Weinberg Gives Sole Endorsement to
Susan Jordan for Assembly
Joining other Carpinteria leaders, the former Mayor of Carpinteria Dick Weinberg has lent his support to Susan Jordan’s Assembly District 35 race.
“As the Director of the California Coastal Protection Network, Susan has an established track record of opposing destructive and illegal projects up [...]

By Paul Mason
May 9, 2010
Since the Earth Day oil rig explosion that killed 11 people and unleashed an unimaginable disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the unacceptable risks of offshore oil drilling have been in the news daily.
Politicians, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, are backpedaling from their prior support, based on the horrifying images on the [...]

Ventura County Reporter

05/06/2010

There’s an old adage that if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we are destined to repeat them. When it comes to offshore oil drilling or oil usage in general, one can’t help but wonder how many more oil spills it will take before we decide oil drilling is bad and that our co-dependence on oil simply isn’t sustainable. With the burgeoning oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, we must look back in time and remember that this isn’t our first time at bat.

In 1969, Union Oil Platform A, stationed six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, suffered a blowout and released between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels of oil into the ocean, killing dolphins, seals and more than 10,000 birds.

In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker grounded, spilling 250,000 barrels of crude oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, killing an estimated 100,000 to as many as 250,000 birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles and 22 orcas, as well as causing the destruction of billions of salmon and herring eggs. The Exxon spill severely damaged the coastline, and researchers estimate it could take another 10 years to approach restoring it to its previous condition.

As of today, the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill is estimated to have leaked 75,000 barrels of oil to date, and with no sure way to cap the leak, is adding 5,000 barrels a day into the Gulf of Mexico. Even without hitting the coastline, experts are saying it would rank among the worst ecological disasters in U.S. history.

At this point, the idea of proposing any new drilling anywhere seems ludicrous. Even the Obama administration is backtracking on the president’s proposal for new offshore drilling.

For more, go to
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/more_drilling_is_not_the_answer/7877/