SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Commissions that oversee coastal lands and water pushed the Trump administration to leave California out of plans to expand offshore drilling, warning the state would block the construction of pipelines needed to get oil back to land.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wants to open nearly all U.S. coastlines to offshore oil and gas drilling.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has proposed six sales of drilling rights off the California coast and a seventh off Oregon and Washington between 2020 and 2023.
California’s State Lands Commission controls the first 3 miles offshore, at which point federal jurisdiction kicks in.
Source: FuelFix
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