LOCATION:
CSUMB-National Steinbeck Center, One Main Street, Salinas
SCHEDULE:
• 3:30pm -- Rally to Protest Trump's BLM (bring signs). Media will be invited.
• 4pm to 6pm -- Attend BLM public hearing to demand that oil & gas leases not be allowed.
BACKGROUND:
• US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to grant leases for oil and gas drilling on Monterey County lands with federal mineral rights.
• This is a direct assault on Measure Z, which Monterey County voters passed Nov 2016. Measure Z bans all new oil & gas drilling.
• Stand up for Local Control. Defend Measure Z!
• Resist Trump's BLM.
MORE DETAILS:
The original BLM plan allows oil and gas leases on hundreds of thousands of acres of land with federal mineral rights in Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus counties.
The newly proposed BLM plan ("preferred alternative") allows oil and gas leases on 368,800 acres of land with federal mineral rights. The public is invited to provide feedback regarding this proposed plan at the BLM public hearing, or via written comments.