Reheis-Boyd, C wspa
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UCS dossier
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SEE WSPA
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fun to see her scramble/cover
BP DEFECTS 2/20
12 pp
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/sustainability/our-participation-in-trade-associations-climate.pdf
Summary findings table – for further details see page 7
Not aligned Associations deemed not aligned are those which we found to have
stated opposition to BP positions with limited balancing support in other areas.
Associations in this category are:
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
AFPM collaborated with its members over the past year to support
changes to its climate policy. While we are encouraged by this
progress, BP and AFPM’s views on carbon pricing are at odds and
currently we have no areas of full alignment. As a result, we have
decided to resign our membership.
Western Energy Alliance (WEA)
We have decided not to renew our membership with WEA due to
material differences around the federal regulation of methane and
due to BP’s divestment of assets in the states in which the
organization is active.
Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)
BP has decided to resign its membership in WSPA as a result of......helping to convince 15 Democrats in the California Assembly}:
to argue in June 2014 that the policy placing transportation
fuels under the state’s carbon cap should be postponed.
Ultimately, the groups’ efforts failed, and transportation fuels
were included in the emissions limits set up by the state. The
fabricated Fed Up at the Pump group still has a Facebook
page that bills itself as “a grassroots coalition of consumers,
businesses, and advocates” concerned about gas prices
(Fed Up at the Pump 2015). The portrayal is badly undercut,
however, when a click on the link describing the mission of
the group redirects the visitor, inadvertently or not, to the
website of the California Independent Oil Marketers Association
(CIOMA 2015).
Even though WSPA’s efforts in California were unsuccessful,
the organization has adopted a regional approach,
aware that nearby states are watching California closely.
While working to dismantle California’s policies, WSPA is also
active in Washington and Oregon—states that are also debating
aggressive carbon emissions reduction policies—through
groups such as Washington Consumers for Sound Fuel Policy
and Oregon Climate Change Campaign (Wieners 2014).
After the details of WSPA’s presentation were leaked,
Reheis-Boyd defended WSPA’s use of front groups by euphemisticallycalling them “partnerships.” As she put it: “The fact
we are engaged in partnerships with a large array of business
and consumer coalitions isn’t a secret to anyone familiar with
our active engagement on behalf of our members in all of
the states for which we are responsible.” She suggested that
WSPA’s actions were transparent, while charging—with no
trace of irony—that its opponents “skulk in the shadows and
attack the legitimacy of voices with whom they disagree”
(Reheis-Boyd 2014)
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Reheis-Boyd chaired the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue Ribbon Task Force to create alleged "marine protected areas" that fail to the protect the ocean from fracking, oil drilling and spills, pollution, military testing, wind and wave energy projects and all human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering. She also served on the task forces for the Central Coast, North Central Coast and North Coast.
Reheis-Boyd apparently used her role as a state marine "protection" official to increase her network of influence in California politics to the point where the Western States Petroleum Association has become themost powerful corporate lobby in California. The association now has enormous influence over both state and federal regulators. (http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/...)
Oil and gas companies spend more than $100 million a year to buy access to lawmakers in Washington and Sacramento, according to Stop Fooling California (http://www.stopfoolingca.org), an online and social media public education and awareness campaign that highlights oil companies' efforts to mislead and confuse Californians. The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) alone has spent more than $16 million lobbying in Sacramento since 2009.
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bacher kos ca frack
Ocean 'guardian' leads charge for fracking
The drive by the oil and natural gas industry to frack California is highlighted by recent disturbing developments that reveal the enormous power of Big Oil in the state.
In yet one more example of the revolving door between government and huge corporations that defines politics in California now, State Senator Michael Rubio (D-Bakersfield) on February 22 suddenly announced his resignation from office in order to take a “government affairs” position at Chevron.
Rubio went to work for Chevron just two months after alleged “marine protected areas,” overseen by the President of the Western States Petroleum Association, a coastal real estate developer, a marina corporation executive and other corporate interests, went into effect on California’s North Coast.
These “marine protected areas,” created under the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, fail to protect the ocean from fracking, oil drilling, pollution, wind and wave energy projects, military testing and all human impacts other than fishing and gathering.
In a big scandal largely ignored by the mainstream media, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association, not only chaired the Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force to create so-called “marine protected areas” on the South Coast, but also served on the task forces to create “marine reserves” on the North Coast, North Central Coast and South Coast.
“It’s clear that government and petroleum officials want to ‘frack’ in the very same areas Reheis-Boyd was appointed to oversee as a ‘guardian’ of marine habitat protection for the MLPA ‘Initiative,’” said David Gurney, independent journalist and co-chair of the Ocean Protection Coalition, in his report on the opening of new lease-sales for fracking. (http://noyonews.net/...)
“What’s becoming obvious is that Reheis-Boyd’s expedient presence on the ‘Blue Ribbon Task Force’ for the MLPAI was a ploy for the oil industry to make sure no restrictions applied against drilling or fracking in or around so-called marine protected areas,” Gurney emphasized.
The oil industry claims fracking is environmentally sound and already regulated. In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 12, Reheis-Boyd claimed, “In truth, hydraulic fracturing has been used in California for 60-plus years, is not destructive and has never been linked to any environmental harm here. The process is and has been closely regulated. California's well construction and testing regulations that protect our groundwater are the strictest in the nation." (http://www.sfchronicle.com/...)
On the other hand, fracking opponents say hydraulic fracturing is environmentally destructive, since it uses huge volumes of water mixed with sand and dangerous chemicals to blast open rock formations and extract oil and gas, as exposed in the film documentaries Gasland and Gasland II. They note that the controversial technique has been used in hundreds and perhaps thousands of California oil and gas wells, but it's currently unregulated and unmonitored by state officials.
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Fish and Wildlife
CA:
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, Chair
Catherine Reheis-Boyd
Catherine (Cathy) Reheis-Boyd is the chief operating officer and chief of staff for the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA). Affiliated with WSPA since 1990, she currently directs WSPA's government affairs, assists the president in media affairs, oversees all office and committee operations, manages WSPA's staff and financial resources and provides strategic oversight of key issues. Prior to joining WSPA, Reheis-Boyd was employed with Texaco, Inc.'s Bakersfield Division for seven years as an Environmental Regulatory Compliance Coordinator. She worked for three years prior to that as an environmental consultant.
Reheis-Boyd was appointed by the Governor as a California petroleum industry representative on the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and is a member of the California Chamber of Commerce Natural Resources and Policy Committee. She has chaired the Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce Air Quality Committee, and was past president of the Sacramento chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association. She has also served as past president of the Kern County Chapter of the American Lung Association, and is a past recipient of the Bureau of Land Management's State Director's Oil and Gas Award for Special Achievement. Reheis-Boyd was first appointed by the California secretary for resources to the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force for the central coast and was reappointed for the north central coast.
Reheis-Boyd received her bachelor's of science degree in natural resource management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and pursued her post-graduate studies in environmental engineering at the University of Southern California. She is a graduate of the Bakersfield and California Leadership Programs.
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https://www.wspa.org/.../statement-wspa-president-catherine-reheis-boyd...
With the signing of Senate Bill 4, California has the toughest regulations of hydraulic fracturing and other energy production technologies in the country.
Missing: sourcewatch
www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/mpa/brtf_bios_sc.asp
Prior to joining WSPA, Reheis-Boyd was employed with Texaco, Inc.'s Bakersfield Division for seven years as an Environmental Regulatory Compliance ...
Missing: sourcewatch
www.sfgate.com/.../Fracking-has-viable-future-in-California-4506267.p...
Catherine Reheis-Boyd. Updated 2:49 pm, Thursday, August 15, 2013. View: Larger | Hide. Oil rigs dot the Midway-Sunset oil field in Fellows (Kern County).
Missing: sourcewatch
www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Jan/15/fracking-natural-gas-california/
Jan 15, 2013 - ... or contamination of groundwater aquifers (Catherine-Reheis Boyd, ....this is a good source: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fracking.
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Apr 15, 2013 - Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum ......Clients buy discretion for large sums of cash, but SourceWatch notes "a ...
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Feb 1, 2013 - Clients buy discretion for large sums of cash, but SourceWatch notes "a long .... On December 10, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the President of the ...
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Nov 17, 2013 - ... Director Michael Brune spars about AB 32 with Cathy Reheis-Boyd,.... Sourcewatch.org portal on the issue, including re-branding as green.
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