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 in an effort 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 business and leisure fishing, with aquaculture and renewable power technology turning into more and more vital. Oil spills have precipitated 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 gasoline that imperils the worldwide atmosphere. If Texans wish to put money into California’s marine economic system, they’ll put their cash into our state’s renewable power enterprises.
Tom Osborne, Laguna Seashore
