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State Chapters => California => Topic started by: Elderberry on July 29, 2021, 12:48:12 pm
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Watts Up With That? by David Middleton 7/28/2021
“Too fracking funny!”
CAUSE AND EFFECT: FOREIGN OIL IMPORTS CONTINUE TO GROW AS CALIFORNIA DENIES NEW FRACKING PERMITS
BY William Allison Jul. 14, 2021
Citing the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California officials denied 21 fracking permits this week. What they didn’t mention was that the permit denials are more likely to benefit foreign oil producers than the environment.
State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk cited climate change as the reason to deny the permits, as California aims to ban fracking altogether by 2024 and stop all oil development by 2045. But not issuing permits to develop domestic energy won’t prevent Californians from using gasoline and other petroleum productions – it’s just ensuring that more of the energy they use will be produced overseas and arrive by tanker.
In fact, for the past 25 years the amount of oil supplied to California’s refineries has essentially held steady at around 660 million barrels per year, but the source of the supply has changed drastically. In 1995, nearly all of that oil came from within California’s borders and Alaska. Today, the majority of the oil comes from foreign imports as data from the state’s Energy Commission shows:
Energy In Depth (https://www.energyindepth.org/cause-and-effect-foreign-oil-imports-continue-to-grow-as-california-denies-new-fracking-permits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cause-and-effect-foreign-oil-imports-continue-to-grow-as-california-denies-new-fracking-permits)
(https://i2.wp.com/www.energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CA-Oil-Supplies-Source.png?resize=773%2C560&ssl=1)
More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/28/california-importing-more-foreign-oil-because-climate-change/ (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/28/california-importing-more-foreign-oil-because-climate-change/)
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Watts Up With That? by David Middleton 7/28/2021
“Too fracking funny!”
CAUSE AND EFFECT: FOREIGN OIL IMPORTS CONTINUE TO GROW AS CALIFORNIA DENIES NEW FRACKING PERMITS
BY William Allison Jul. 14, 2021
Citing the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California officials denied 21 fracking permits this week. What they didn’t mention was that the permit denials are more likely to benefit foreign oil producers than the environment.
State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk cited climate change as the reason to deny the permits, as California aims to ban fracking altogether by 2024 and stop all oil development by 2045. But not issuing permits to develop domestic energy won’t prevent Californians from using gasoline and other petroleum productions – it’s just ensuring that more of the energy they use will be produced overseas and arrive by tanker.
In fact, for the past 25 years the amount of oil supplied to California’s refineries has essentially held steady at around 660 million barrels per year, but the source of the supply has changed drastically. In 1995, nearly all of that oil came from within California’s borders and Alaska. Today, the majority of the oil comes from foreign imports as data from the state’s Energy Commission shows:
Energy In Depth (https://www.energyindepth.org/cause-and-effect-foreign-oil-imports-continue-to-grow-as-california-denies-new-fracking-permits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cause-and-effect-foreign-oil-imports-continue-to-grow-as-california-denies-new-fracking-permits)
(https://i2.wp.com/www.energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CA-Oil-Supplies-Source.png?resize=773%2C560&ssl=1)
More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/28/california-importing-more-foreign-oil-because-climate-change/ (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/28/california-importing-more-foreign-oil-because-climate-change/)
I'm surprised California hasn't insisted that refineries in the state close.
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Potato peeled off with:
"I'm surprised California hasn't insisted that refineries in the state close."
Wait 5 more years...
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I'm surprised California hasn't insisted that refineries in the state close.
In process:
Northern California requires oil refiners to slash air pollution
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/northern-california-air-board-requires-oil-refiners-slash-pollution-2021-07-21/July 21, 2021
Northern California regulators on Wednesday directed two of the state's largest oil refineries to slash their fine particulate air pollution, which will require costly modifications at the plants.
The 19-3 vote by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District governing board means refineries in the area, including Chevron Corp's (CVX.N) Richmond plant and PBF Energy Inc's (PBF.N) Martinez refinery, will have to install wet gas scrubbers to reduce pollution spewed by their gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU) within five years....
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Vehicles driving on I-80 and I-680 through that area of the NE Bay Area probably contribute more particulate pollution - aka dust - than those two refinery complexes.