Dear CLUE-SB members,

This is an urgent action alert regarding Sable Offshore Corp. and an upcoming closed-session meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Monday, January 5. We are asking community members to contact key Supervisors to urge them to enforce their recent denial of Sable’s application and protect our coast and environment. For more information and suggested actions, please read the details below.

Chair Capps has called a closed session to discuss Sable on Monday, Jan. 5, at 9:00 a.m. (See agenda at https://santabarbara.legistar.com

Please call and email Supervisors Capps, Lee, and Lavagnino to ask them to enforce their denial of Sable’s application to operate the Santa Ynez Unit facilities. Please also share this alert with your members and supporters.

Lavagnino: Steve.Lavagnino@countyofsb.org; 805-346-8400
Capps: LCapps@countyofsb.org; 805-568-2191
Lee: roylee@countyofsb.org; 805-568-2186

Suggested talking points:

• On December 16, the County Board of Supervisors voted to deny Sable’s application to operate the onshore Santa Ynez Unit facilities due to Sable’s pattern of irresponsible and unsafe behavior.
• Sable should be stopped from operating the processing facilities, pipelines, and storage facilities.
• A federal judge has already ruled that “Sable cannot restart oil and gas processing and transport in the facilities and pipeline without an FDP [Final Development Plan]” and that “Chapter 25B does not merely provide for the transfer of FDPs, it creates an administrative process designed to bar the transfer of FDPs to a transferee that would place the environment at risk.” The judge ruled that Chapter 25B requires the Board of Supervisors to decide whether to approve the transfer.
• The Board should take immediate action to enforce its decision and prevent Sable from operating the facilities.