Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart – California Governor Jerry Brown, whose bizarre green antics are a regular feature on WUWT, has been accused of potentially misusing state resources, by asking State Geologists to prepare an assessment of his own private property, which included data about the likelihood of finding drillable oil.
According to The Union Democrat;
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown last year directed state oil and gas regulators to research, map and report back on any mining and oil drilling potential and history at the Brown family’s private land in Northern California.
After a phone call from the governor and follow-up requests from his aides, senior staffers in the state’s oil and gas regulatory agency over at least two days produced a 51-page historical report and geological assessment, plus a personalized satellite-imaged geological and oil and gas drilling map for the area around Brown’s family ranchland near the town of Williams.
Ultimately, the regulators told the governor, prospects were “very low” for any commercial drilling or mining at the 2,700-acre property, which has been in Brown’s family for more than a century.
Through the state’s open records law, The Associated Press obtained the research that state regulators carried out for Brown, and the emails among senior oil and gas regulators scrambling to fulfill the governor’s request.
Brown spokesman Evan Westrup declined to discuss the work for the governor, referring the AP to California’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources. That agency said the work was a legal and proper use of public resources – and no more than the general public would get. But oil industry experts said they could not recall a similar example of anyone getting that kind of state work done for private property.
This situation creates a fascinating dilemma for the Governor. Did Jerry Brown use a little known free public service which is available to everyone – in which case every land owner in California should apply for a free survey of their property’s oil potential? Or did Jerry Brown violate section 8314 of California’s Government Code, which states “It is unlawful for any elected state or local officer…to use or permit others to use public resources for…personal or other purposes which are not authorized by law.” (h/t Breitbart).
Or perhaps there is some other innocent explanation? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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There is only one universal disqualifier for energy production that reduces CO2: If it actually works.
OK, I’ll bite….salt reactor ????
So….
Is there a department that evaluates suitability of given parcels of land for windmills and solar farms? If there is:
1. Do you have to own it to have it evaluated?
2. Can someone else ask to have it evaluated?
3. Can the results be made public?
4. If the result is positive, would some reporter have the kahonies to call him up and ask why he’s not putting up windmills and solar panels on his ranch when it is vital that people do just that to save the planet?
Aw, there’s no such department, it would have been SO much fun if there was.
The Gov announced some of his contingency (10 so far?) that will join him in Paris…..all politicians, representing California at this international meeting. AGW is his grandstand for history. He’s been making the rounds like he’s a national figure leading the charge for environmental purity. Quite the display of narcissism.
How many US Presidents or candidates have used Governorship of California as their leaping off point?
free trip to Paris just in time for some Christmas shopping, while staying in some very nice hotels on the public dime , what is not to like ?
Get their other-half’s along on the trip , and given they already go the hotels rooms all they need to fund at most is the flights, and it can even be romantic .
The governor should purchase one of the state geologic maps covering his property. In my graduate school days I assisted some State Mines and Geology field geologists compiling geologic maps of Colusa County. They were printed at 1:250,000 and had full source citations. A 51 page report on 2,700 acres seems to be polishing the apple.
Hooey! Jerry Brown is the real deal, walks and talks what he preaches. Anybody that says otherwise needs some really rock solid proof as he has 40 years of rock solid evidence you would be wrong. Its fair to not appreciate some of his positions but its a long hard and non-productive road trying to prove he doesn’t both believe in his positions and live them too. And I am strongly opposed to his views on CO2.
bill hunter commented: “…Jerry Brown is the real deal, walks and talks what he preaches….”
That’s the problem…..he preaches sometimes and governs other times. But like any politician he’s had failures along with successes. He ignores the failures or any consequence of failing and that’s dangerous. His stance on AGW is beyond his responsibility and pay grade and he needs to back off. He thinks he’s a Jedi martyr for AGW but he’s nothing more than a useful idiot that leads a state with the 9th biggest economy in the world. Scary.
““Or perhaps there is some other innocent explanation? Inquiring minds would like to know.”
Jerry Brown is not a real person; he is a figment of the collective imaginations of California voters. What you see is a hologram made up of the collective imaginations of the voters and what you hear is virtual reality. Pixie dust is scattered in the air when he speaks and on the ground where he walks. Fear not for he is on a noble quest and like Pangloss we live in the best of all possible worlds.
This sound normal for Democrats and our media, after all it only illegal if a Republican does it.
Front page news on FoxNews.com…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/06/california-governor-ordered-state-workers-to-research-oil-drilling-on-family/
It’s a common theme in comments at WUWT that green advocates wish to impoverish the first world nations by taking away their fossil fuels – whether they believe in the dangers of CO2 or not. IMHO however there may be a secondary motivation of keeping money out of Arab hands. Most of the undrilled joules are in the middle east, if they stay undrilled then maybe money will be diverted from terrorist operations. Could this be the (largely) unspoken thought for so many greenies like Jerry??
No, but they would probably love for people to believe that lie. All one has to do is look at their opposition to Keystone, with the biggest stated reason being that it uses a huge fossil fuel resource, the Alberta oil sands which “threatens the planet”.
Drilling American oil would do the same thing, without destroying the US’s economy in the process.
Look up the U.N.’s Agenda 21 !!
If you were to replace the word “wish” with the word “will” in your first sentence, I think you are getting much closer to any common theme (assuming there is one, the cats are tough to herd ).
I won’t even try to speculate on the rest of your comment, seeing as the wars are still in progress.
The sad thing is that many people will be so unsurprised that they will not even bat an eyelid.
With apologies to Frank Sinatra:
Fly me to the moon
And let me hobnob amongst the stars
Redirect that satellite away
From Jupiter and Mars
In other words, survey my land
In other words, voters take my hand
Fill my heart with oil money and
Let me spend for ever more
Yachts, mansions, private jets, and land
Are all I worship and adore
In other words, I’m an ecofreak it’s true
In other words, I’ll live better than you
Fill my heart with oil money and
Let me spend for ever more
Yachts, mansions, private jets, and land
Are all I worship and adore
In other words, I’m an ecofreak it’s true
In other words, I’ll live better than you
+100
Apologize to Bart Howard, not Frank Sinatra.
“Fly Me to the Moon”, originally titled “In Other Words”, is a popular song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song…”
–Wikipedia
Yahoo news has it:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-brown-had-state-workers-research-oil-061632267–finance.html
Here is one of his friend
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/album/photos/JerryBrownAndMeAGU12Photo2.JPG
two slap head equals one ars*?
You can’t fix stupid and you can’t fix crazy either.
Resource
Agree.
Can you fix greedy?
Auto
There are people like this? No, no, not the baldness…the ridiculous.
http://nypost.com/2015/11/06/resale-retailers-booming-because-of-birkin-bags-scarce-supply/
15K for a handbag.
Perhaps they should have an exit poll concerning CAGW support.
“I am Governor Jerry Brown. My heart smiles and never frowns. Soon I will be Pres-i-dent.” Dead Kennedys, California Uber Alles, 1979
Humm, this sounds like Al Gore’s zinc mine royalties.
All you California residents that make the same request, please report it here at WUWT. Then in a few weeks it would be a fun FOIA request to ask for a list of all such requests for the last 20 years or so and the disposition of each request.
If a Republican governor had done this it would be top news until that governor was run out of office.