Training Opportunity

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from Ventura County Climate Hub

The Legi Group (members from the 350 chapters in Riverside, Ventura and L.A. Counties) is hosting a legislative training tomorrow afternoon, Saturday November 21. They have 80 people registered and room for 20 more!
This is a great opportunity to learn how our State Legislative Process works and get to know the activists that are strategizing our game in Sacramento!

FROM — https://world.350.org/ventura/

WHAT: Interactive Legislative Training Session
WHEN: Saturday, November 21, 2021 – 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom – Register here

The program:
1) Overview of California legislative process – presentation and questions
2) Effective Citizen Lobbying – presentation and questions
3) Breakout sessions – practice getting ready for meeting your legislator!

Please join by computer (not phone) so you can see your fellow participants and slides. We will be doing 2 breakouts in separate Zoom rooms which will include research and a mock meeting with a legislator to advocate for a good climate bill!

Register in advance for this meeting: Click Here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Room opens at 12:00 p.m. for organizers, event starts at 12:30 p.m

There needs to be a full review of earthquake risks before approving additional wastewater injection wells in a fault zone!

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THIS JUST IN FROM CFROG —

Could wastewater injection trigger destructive earthquakes in Ventura County? California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) is requesting public input.

Carbon California oil company wants to drill 3 new wastewater injection wells in a fault zone in Ventura County.

Tell CalGEM that there needs to be a full review of earthquake risks before approving additional wastewater injection wells in a fault zone!

Comment details below

This project above Ojai would inject 3000 barrels per day of wastewater into a seismic active area near the San Cayetano fault.

The San Cayetano fault may be connected to the large Ventura/Pita Point fault which runs through the city of Ventura.

Please join us and urge CalGEM to consider the possible dangers that could result from wastewater injection into an active fault near a major population center.

Wastewater injection in a fault zone can cause fault lubrication, increasing the likelihood of earthquakes. The proposed wastewater wells would be adjacent to several faults, including the Big Canyon and San Cayetano faults, as well as numerous tear faults. These faults connect to the Ventura Fault, and could generate earthquakes in highly populated areas.

MORE DETAILS AND ASSOCIATED RISKS

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

Submit comments through June 10, 2020. ​Comments are welcome in the language with which you are most comfortable. CalGEM will translate comments and include them with all other​ submissions received.

​Email: CalGEMRegulations@conservation.ca.gov​​.

​Online survey:
Go to: surveymonkey.com/r/calgem-publichealth​. Answer two questions to provide your rulemaking input.

Postal mail:
Department of Conservation, 801 K Street, MS 24-02 Sacramento, CA 95814
ATTN: Public Health Near Oil & Gas Rulemaking

CalGEM Public Health Rulemaking Hearing
​​CalGEM is holding a series of online Public Health Rulemaking hearings to get public input as they update public health and safety protections for communities near oil and gas production operations. This is the perfect opportunity to voice concerns about this increased risk of earthquakes.

TODAY: Tuesday, June 2
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Language: English
Register here to receive your call-in details.

If you do not have the ability to register (no internet access), join the meeting by dialing: ​US Toll Free: 1-877-369-5243​

Access Code: 0333038## (press ‘pound’ twice)

SUPPORT AN EMERGENCY BAN ON NEW TAR SANDS WELLS UNTIL THE SOURCE OF WATER CONTAMINATION IS EXAMINED

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JUST IN FROM CFROG —

We Need Your Help!

WHEN: TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23 AT 1 p.m.
WHERE: Supervisors meeting in Ventura (800 S. Victoria)

SUPPORT AN EMERGENCY BAN ON NEW TAR SANDS WELLS UNTIL THE SOURCE OF WATER CONTAMINATION IS EXAMINED!

On TUESDAY, Supervisor Steve Bennett will bring back an urgency ordinance for a temporary ban on new wells or re-drilling of existing wells that use steam injection near potable water. It requires four out of the five supervisors to vote YES.

Please contact your supervisors TODAY and let them know you support this action. Ask your friends in other districts to call or email before Tuesday. A fact sheet on the ordinance can be found here.

MORE DETAILS- CLICK HERE

 

Steve Bennett (805) 654-2703
Steve.bennett@ventura.org

Linda Parks (805) 214-2510
Linda.parks@ventura.org

Kelly Long (805) 654-2276
Kelly.long@ventura.org

Bob Huber (805) 955-2300
Supervisor.huber@ventura.org

John Zaragoza (805) 654-2613
John.zaragoza@ventura.org

Per County Counsel:
“The USGS found indications that thermogenic petroleum-related gases are migrating into the potable water aquifers of the Fox Canyon aquifer system in the vicinity of steam injection and wastewater disposal wells. The study suggests that oil production involving steam injection may be causing or contributing to the migration of petroleum-related gases to, and the contamination of, the potable water aquifers. The USGS has indicated that additional study and assessment are needed regarding the issue.”

Please join in this urgent show of concern for our water and our health and safety…the most precious resource of all is at stake.

CFROG is fighting to protect your air, water and climate. DONATE TO CGROG

 

Monday 2/18—Stop the #FakeNationalEmergency! Presidents’ Day Protest

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FROM — https://indivisibleventura.org/

Stop the #FakeNationalEmergency! Presidents’ Day Protest Ventura
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2474989142574688/

This is a NATIONAL EVENT!

DATE: President’s Day—Monday, 2/18 from noon to 1:30pm

LOCATION: The corner of Victoria and Telephone in Ventura in front of the Government Center (800 S Victoria Ave, Ventura)

DETAILS: Bring your flags, signs, dress in red, white, and blue – and show what real patriots look like!

Donald Trump has declared a #FakeNationalEmergency. This is an illegal power grab. In crisis moments like this, how the citizenry responds in the immediate aftermath can shape the course of our country’s history. That’s why MoveOn members and allies are launching hundreds of events all across the country.

Together, we will say NO to Trump’s power grabs, NO to his border wall, NO to xenophobia, and NO to HATE. Trump’s undemocratic power grab to secure his border wall is a direct attack on our democracy.

#FakeNationalEmergency is now in full swing.
For more actions you can take go here: https://indivisibleventura.org/2019/02/16/stop-the-fakenationalemergency-presidents-day-protest-ventura/

Low Cost Tickets Available for Bus to Rise for Climate March in San Francisco

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Sponsored by: Sierra Club, Ventura Climate Hub, 350 Santa Barbara, CAUSE & allies

JUMP ON THE BUS on Saturday, September 8th, with a dynamic group of activists to march in SF and push government leaders to deal with global warming. Share this once-in-a-lifetime adventure with potentially 50,000 people. Experience the camaraderie of a mass of humanity who shares your goal of a thrivable and resilient planet. Take part in street art, music, chants and merriment. Buy your ticket here today.

350 VC Climate Hub has just put a $5 Low/No Income ticket to San Francisco at the Eventbrite Charter Bus ticket sales page for the Rise for Climate March on Saturday, September 8.

They have reserved a late model relatively low emissions Roadrunner Charter Bus out of Camarillo that will stop at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Ventura at 11:30 pm next Friday, September 7, then pick up riders in Santa Barbara and Isla Vista and head north for an early morning drop-off at the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

Experienced march organizers (who did this in NYC and DC) plan a smooth pick-up. You will know where to show up at the time specified by your bus captain Amber Bassett (sometime between 3 and 5 pm) for the ride back home. You’ll get back to the UU Church around midnight. Your car is safe in the back parking lot for the day.

Pack your food and drink, including items you can leave on the bus–a pillow or two, blanket, hoodie, warm socks, maybe earplugs if you need to withdraw from the vibrant, soul-filled conversation of other riders. Pack whatever helps make the ride home more comfortable that you can feel OK leaving with your bus driver for the day. There is plenty of room for walkers and wheelchairs and strollers.

There will San Fran food trucks at the Embarcadero bus drop-off point and at the end of the march at the Civic Center where a Resource Fair of partner organizations, campaigns, and projects will showcase the work that they do, how they educate people about climate change and just transition, and where people can get involved in art, technology and economic structures for humanity’s regeneration.

The march needs us. The moment needs us to step out and shout for climate justice and a fair transition to a safe world.

Thousands have been learning songs from The Peace Poets up and down the coast during the past three weeks. Be with them singing.  The people gonna rise like the water, We’re gonna calm this crisis down. I hear the voice of my great grand-daughter singing ‘Keep It In the Ground’.

Sliding scale charter bus tickets now as low as $5 as well as $20, $50, $85 and $100 in order to fill all 55 seats on the bus. Tickets are available on Eventbrite at RISE FOR CLIMATE MARCH SAN FRANCISCO: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-for-climate-march-san-francisco-tickets-48614002791

Be a climate rider on the bus leaving from Ventura, Santa Barbara or Isla Vista!