To the editor: Given the existential scale of oil-industry-caused local weather change, Texas-based Sable Offshore Corp. shouldn’t be allowed to drill in waters off California’s coast (“How grand plans to restart oil drilling off Santa Barbara’s coast hit California’s inexperienced wall,” Oct. 13). The Golden State’s atmosphere and economic system shouldn’t be put in danger with the intention to enrich Lone Star State buyers.
California has America’s largest ocean economic system, estimated at $44 billion. The biggest elements of this economic system are tourism, recreation and industrial and leisure fishing, with aquaculture and renewable power technology changing into more and more necessary. Oil spills have brought on California main issues for greater than 50 years and are a continuing menace to the environmental treasures of our coast.
Let’s ship Sable again to Houston with the message that California’s world-class economic system was not constructed on a gas that imperils the worldwide atmosphere. If Texans need to spend money on California’s marine economic system, they will put their cash into our state’s renewable power enterprises.
Tom Osborne, Laguna Seashore
