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Demonstration in front of Chevron to Protest New Oil Drilling Off Central Coast

by ~Bradley (bradley [at] riseup.net)
On July 23rd, as the California budget bill moves to the state legislature, local residents, some dressed as jelly fish and a sea anemone, held an afternoon demonstration in front of the Chevron on Ocean St. in Santa Cruz to oppose a plan to open the Central Coast to new drilling for the first time in 40 years. Demonstrators, including the staff of Save Our Shores, a non-profit organization based in Santa Cruz working since 1978 to prevent oil drilling in the Monterey Bay, are calling on the legislature to oppose new drilling off the California Coast, and instead pass an oil severance tax which would reportedly raise $1 billion a year from existing leases.
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For more information, please see the demonstration announcement, which has quotes from one of the organizers, Deirdre Des Jardins:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/23/18612164.php
§Sea Anemone
by ~Bradley
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§High Tide
by ~Bradley
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§Tax Existing Oil Wells
by ~Bradley
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Santa Cruz activist Nancy Abbey
§Green Station
by ~Bradley
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The demonstration in front of Chevron attracted attention from people across the street at The Green Station, the Santa Cruz source for locally-made B99 biodiesel.

B99 is made from restaurant fryer oil collected from the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas and refined in a biodiesel plant in Gonzales.
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