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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big Oil’s big money influence: They’re dumping $5 million into a single local fight in California</font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oil giant Aera Energy, a corporation owned jointly by Exxon and Shell Oil, has spent $5 million to fight Measures A and B, two ballot initiatives that would eliminate loopholes that allow oil companies to drill in Ventura County with no modern environmental review, recently released campaign documents reveal. By Dan Bacher That could break […]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dan Bacher<b> March 23rd</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Big Oil’s big money influence: They’re dumping $5 million into a single local fight in Calilfornia</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Published on March 23rd, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TAGGED: BALLOT MEASURES, BIG OIL, CALIFORNIA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Oil giant Aera Energy, a corporation owned jointly by Exxon and Shell Oil, has spent $5 million to fight Measures A and B, </b>two ballot initiatives that would eliminate loopholes that allow oil companies to drill in Ventura County with no modern environmental review, recently released campaign documents revea</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">l.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Big Oil's nefarious influence: They're dumping $5 million into a single local fight in Calilfornia By Dan Bacher</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>That could break the record for fossil fuel interest contributions to a referendum campaign in the county, according to a statement from Food & Water Watch:</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”In 2020, Aera Energy was among the fossil fuel interests who spent upwards of $1 million three days after the Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted to eliminate the antiquated permit loopholes for new drilling projects,” the group stated. “The money bought enough signature gatherers to put the issue back on the ballot in the form of Measures A and B. Voting ‘yes’ on Measures A and B will reinstate the protections against antiquated drill permits initially voted on by the Board of Supervisors.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“This is just the beginning of a tsunami of money and misinformation Big Oil is going to flood Ventura County with</b>,” said Tomás Morales Rebecchi, Food & Water Watch Central Coast Organizing Manager and a VC-SAFE campaign leader. “But Aera Energy leaders are mistaken if they believe millions in misinformation will fool Ventura County voters into giving up protections for their water, farms and communities.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We will not allow fossil fuel interest groups with massive warchests to dictate our future and subvert our democracy. More than 1,000 oil wells sit within half a mile of Ventura County homes, and 60 percent of those homes are located in communities of color. This is a grassroots fight for environmental justice, public health and a livable future. Aera Energy’s fight is for their bottom line and corporate greed,” he stated.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The VC-SAFE (Ventura County Save Agriculture and Freshwater for Everyone) coalition comprises environmental, social justice and public health advocates working to pass Measures A and B to protect Ventura’s aquifers, communities and farms from oil drilling using antiquated permits, according to Morales Rebecchi.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----</div></div>