STOP Renaissance Petroleum in Ventura County!

Renaissance Petroleum wants to expand drilling in the Cabrillo Oil Field in Oxnard within 1,600 feet of residents' homes and within 2 miles of 8 schools!

Four new oil wells and an oil production facility are being proposed on top of 20+ wells already approved for the area. This will increase air pollution and truck traffic in a community already overburdened by heavy pesticide use and fossil fuel pollution.

Food & Water Watch has teamed up with Climate First Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG) to file an appeal against this dirty oil and gas expansion project in the Cabrillo Oil Field.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors will be voting on this oil drilling proposal on Tuesday, July 23 at 1:30 p.m.

Send a message today to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors urging them to reject Renaissance Petroleum's proposal!

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Ventura County Supervisors: No New Oil Wells in Oxnard!

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I am writing in support of Food & Water Watch's and Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)'s appeal of PL14-0103, Rennasaince Petroleum's proposal to expand drilling near my community. I'm asking you to do your duty and put public health before corporate profit by granting the appeal and sending the project back to the planning department.

These new oil wells and oil processing hub will be within 1,600 feet of residents' homes and within 2 miles of 8 Oxnard schools. There should be a full and complete public health impact analysis that is site specific, with direction to consider environmental justice issues because the project is located in a state-identified disadvantaged community.

This community has already suffered from years of pollution from pesticides and the oil industry. According to the State of California, residents in this area are in the top 100th percentile for pesticide pollution, 97th percentile for impaired water and 91st percentile for pollution burden.

Drilling sites like these produce harmful chemicals which can affect people's reproductive and central nervous systems; and ethylbenzene and xylenes which may have respiratory and neurological effects. The proposed processing facility will also flare more gas, emit air pollution, and require a significant number of trucks to transport crude oil. These trucks will be using the same routes as many of the residents and school buses.

Residents deserve the right to know how the expansion of the Cabrillo Oil Field to an approved total of 20 oil wells and a large oil, water, and gas processing hub will affect the health our families for thirty more years.

I urge you to protect the Oxnard community by supporting Food & Water Watch's and CFROGs appeal, rejecting RenPet's expansion proposal, and further studying the cumulative impacts of these wells before granting permits that will impact the area for decades to come.

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