On Saturday Feb 3, between 10 a.m. and noon, Main Beach will once again become the focal point for protestors wanting their voices heard – but this time, the gathering is intended to demonstrate opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to open up the California coast to new offshore drilling, with protestors likely to come from across the political spectrum.The proposal, outlined by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in early January, would open up areas of the California coast that have been off-limits for over two decades.
“Drilling in coastal waters has been deeply unpopular since a devastating 1969 spill off the coast of Santa Barbara which spewed more than three million gallons of oil into some of the nation’s most sensitive coastal habitat, killing thousands of seabirds and other marine life and spurring the modern environmental movement,” German adds.
Several groups, including Oceana, Project O, Surfrider (National, South OC, Huntington and Seal Beach, and Newport Beach chapters), Indivisible OC 48, the Sierra Club, and Orange County Coastkeeper, are organizing the event. See full article here