Valley Voice

Executive Director & Founder
Kern River Conservancy

For the past month, I’ve heard from many good people in our community who disagree with an Op-Ed I wrote against increasing oil drilling and fracking near the Kern River. My argument boils down to this: oil and energy companies have made the automation of human jobs a key plank off of which to build profits. As the energy companies have acknowledged numerous times, cutting back on employment costs is one way to offset the cost of environmental regulations.
Meanwhile, as I noted in the Bakersfield Californian, the hundreds of jobs produced […]

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