United States: Baby step to protect the coast from drilling
By | Published: March 31, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle: California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County’s coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County’s coast. The measure would more than double the size of two existing National Marine Sanctuaries near San Francisco and Marin – Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. The newly protected zone would stretch from Bodega …
United States: Baby step to protect the coast from drilling
San Francisco Chronicle: California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County’s coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County’s coast. The measure would more than double the size of two existing National Marine Sanctuaries near San Francisco and Marin – Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank. The newly protected zone would stretch from Bodega …
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